Reinsurance News

Crédit Agricole reports 24% revenue growth in 9M

11th November 2021

Crédit Agricole Assurances has announced a 24.6% growth of revenue across its priority lines of business during the first nine months of 2021. Priority lines of business include protection of assets and individuals and unit-linked products in savings and retirement. Meanwhile, the combined ratio stood at 96.9%. Property & Casualty revenue increased by ... Read the full article

Kin Insurance reports improved Adjusted Loss Ratio for Q3

11th November 2021

Kin Insurance has reported that through the third quarter of 2021, its adjusted loss ratio decreased to 89.8% from 107.4% for the same prior year period. Hurricane Ida contributed 25.4% to the adjusted loss ratio, with other PCS catastrophe events contributing 8.9%. Non-cat adjusted loss ratio of 55.5% has decreased each of ... Read the full article

Zurich won’t change reinsurance significantly despite aggregate exhaustion: CFO Quinn

11th November 2021

Insurer Zurich has no intentions to significantly alter its use of reinsurance protection despite the impacts of hurricane Ida and the European floods exhausting the company's aggregate catastrophe cover in the third quarter, according to Chief Financial Officer (CFO), George Quinn. Alongside robust premium growth, Zurich's Q3 2021 results highlighted ... Read the full article

Hannover Re sheds stake in HDI as firm underlines ‘pure reinsurer’ focus

11th November 2021

Global reinsurer Hannover Re has announced the sale of its 49.8% stake in joint venture HDI Global Specialty SE to majority shareholder HDI Global SE. The deal underscores Hannover Re’s overarching ambition of repositioning itself as a pure reinsurer. Concurrently, the sale is seen as a way to free up capital for ... Read the full article

FCA’s new pricing rules could have been unmanageable: LMA

11th November 2021

The LMA has issued its guidance on the new FCA Pricing Practices rules and associated Product Reviews which would require carriers to provide information on most products, including features, target market and those whom the product is not likely to be suitable for. There is also a reciprocal requirement for intermediaries ... Read the full article

Aviva’s General Insurance GWP rises to £6.5bn in 9M

11th November 2021

General Insurance premiums written by UK insurer Aviva grew 5% in the first nine months of 2021, reflecting solid customer retention and new business wins, particularly in commercial lines. UK&I life sales were £25.3 billion, up from £21.8 billion in the prior year quarter, while strong growth was seen in Savings ... Read the full article

Insurance Europe expresses support towards COP26

11th November 2021

Insurance Europe, the European insurance and reinsurance federation, has expressed its support for COP26, the collective global momentum to combat climate change. The European insurance industry also backs the goals of the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal, as well as Europe’s ambitious targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions ... Read the full article

Hippo’s Q3 revenue up 64%, total generated premium hits $162mn

11th November 2021

Home insurer Hippo Holdings Inc. has announced total generated premium (TGP) growth of 94%, year-on-year, to $162 million in the third quarter of 2021, pushing the firm's revenue up 64% to $21.3 million. Alongside the rise in TGP and revenue for the quarter, Hippo has reported a smaller net loss of ... Read the full article

Generali on track to hit 2021 targets as results up 74%

11th November 2021

Italian insurer Generali has posted a net result of €2.25 billion for the first nine months of 2021, up 73.6% from the €1.30 billion that it reported for the same period last year. The result increased thanks to a corresponding improvement in the group’s operating result, which grew by 10% over ... Read the full article

Belgium floods amount to €2.1bn in damages

11th November 2021

Since the summer’s deadly floods in Belgium, insurance companies have received more than 71,000 claims with damages amounting to over €2.1 billion, according to The Brussel Times. These damage reports came from Liège, Verviers and Trooz, according to Nieuwsblad, who also reported that along with the damage to houses and buildings, ... Read the full article

LimitFi enters multi-year partnership with SiriusPoint

11th November 2021

Limit Financial (LimitFi), a managing general underwriter specialising in credit insurance and reinsurance solutions, has entered a multi-year underwriting capacity partnership and a strategic investment with re/insurer SiriusPoint. The partnership will support existing and future credit insurance product offerings and provides LimitFi with committed capacity to execute credit insurance. It will also ... Read the full article

Zurich grows P&C premiums by 11% in first nine months of 2021

11th November 2021

Property & Casualty (P&C) gross written premiums (GWP) increased by 11% at Zurich through the first nine months of 2021, as the company benefited from higher premium rates amid increases in commercial insurance. P&C GWP jumped from $27.3 billion in 9M 2020 to $31.2 billion in 9M 2021, while rate increases ... Read the full article

RLI announces Kliethermes as President & CEO, Klobnak as COO

11th November 2021

RLI Corp. has confirmed that its Board of Directors has appointed Craig Kliethermes as its new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Jennifer Klobnak as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective January 1st, 2022. The leadership changes come as RLI prepares for the retirement of current company Chairman and CEO, Jonathan ... Read the full article

Radian secures additional $484mn of mortgage reinsurance

11th November 2021

Radian Guaranty, a subsidiary of US mortgage insurer Radian Group, has secured an additional $484 million of fully collateralised excess of loss reinsurance protection from Eagle Re 2021-2 Ltd. This is the second time this year that Radian has looked to the capital markets for a source of mortgage reinsurance ... Read the full article

Future systemic risks a key industry concern: Survey

10th November 2021

More than 18 months after the spread of the novel COVID-19 virus caused nations from all corners of the world to lockdown for the first time, respondents to our recent reinsurance market survey have concerns about the risk transfer industry’s ability to navigate such a challenge in the future. The ... Read the full article