Reinsurance News
Travelers renews aggregate catastrophe reinsurance under tighter terms
23rd January 2020
Travelers has successfully renewed some of its catastrophe reinsurance treaties at the January 1st, 2020 renewals, which shows that the firm is to retain a much higher share of its losses this year under changes made to its underlying property aggregate catastrophe excess-of-loss reinsurance treaty. This time last year, the ... Read the full article
Orchid’s Joe Zuk joins Altamont Capital as an Operating Partner
23rd January 2020
Altamont Capital Partners, a private investment firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has hired Joe Zuk, previously of Orchid Underwriters, as an Operating Partner with a focus on insurance and insurance-service investments. He most recently served as the Managing Director of Corporate Development and Strategy at Orchid, and prior ... Read the full article
Korean Re Switzerland grows portfolio by over 50% at first renewal
23rd January 2020
Korean Re Switzerland, the Zurich-based subsidiary of Asian reinsurer Korean Re, has announced the successful completion of its first reinsurance renewal on the 1st of January, 2020. The Seoul-based reinsurer established its European subsidiary as part of a push to expand in the region. The new entity was licensed to ... Read the full article
Swiss Re adds Allianz’ Youngran Kim as group CTO
23rd January 2020
Global reinsurer Swiss Re has appointed Youngran Kim to the role of group Chief Technology Officer, a newly created position. Kim joins from Allianz Asia Pacific, where she has served as regional Chief Information Officer for the past two years. The appointment, based in Zurich, is effective April 1. Prior to Allianz, she ... Read the full article
Generali signs up to UN net-zero emissions pact
23rd January 2020
Italian re/insurer Generali has joined the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, an international group of institutional investors that have committed to decarbonise their portfolios to net-zero emissions by 2050. Convened by the United Nations (UN), the Alliance aims to help avoid a global temperature increase above the 1.5°C Paris target. To achieve this ... Read the full article
Swiss Re passing climate-related price rises on to clients, says CEO at Davos
23rd January 2020
As the risk transfer industry continues to adapt to the changing climate, Swiss Re is in the process of passing climate-related price increases on to its clients, according to the firm's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Christian Mumenthaler. In an interview with CNBC at the 2020 annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in ... Read the full article
Top reinsurers’ exposure to Wuhan coronavirus, Asia pandemic analysed
23rd January 2020
With official numbers of the Wuhan coronavirus currently standing at 585 confirmed infected and 17 dead, Morgan Stanley analysts have detailed the extent to which the top four European global reinsurers are exposed to pandemic risk in Asia. As of 2018, Munich Re wrote €2.3 billion in premiums in Asia via ... Read the full article
Bermuda sees modest slowdown in registered re/insurers
23rd January 2020
The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has reported that a total of 69 new re/insurance entities were registered in 2019, representing a modest slowdown from the previous year. In 2018, Bermuda recorded 75 new re/insurance registrations, but in 2017 the number was slightly lower at 58 new registrations. Last year, registrations consisted ... Read the full article
ProAssurance warns of losses in healthcare professional liability in Q4
23rd January 2020
Specialty insurer ProAssurance Corporation recently announced a preliminary estimate of $37 million of adverse development in its prior accident loss year reserves within its Specialty Property & Casualty unit. This adverse development is within the company's fourth-quarter 2019 results, and is a result of deteriorating loss experience, which is being driven ... Read the full article
Lockton appoints JLT’s Harton to lead Irish business
23rd January 2020
Global re/insurance broker Lockton has appointed Amanda Harton as Chief Executive Officer and director of its Irish business. Harton will lead Lockton Insurance Brokers (Ireland) by helping clients manage their risk in real estate, insolvency, waste management, motor trade and hospitality. Lockton’s announcement states that LIBI will continue to expand its offering ... Read the full article
MetLife appoints Brown to Chief Auditor role
23rd January 2020
Life insurer MetLife has announced the appointment of Toby Brown as executive vice president and Chief Auditor. Effective March 1, Brown will report to MetLife president and Chief Executive Officer Michel Khalaf on an administrative basis. As Chief Auditor, he will lead the team responsible for providing assurance over MetLife’s risk management, ... Read the full article
Aerial imagery specialist Vexcel partners with Verisk’s Geomni
23rd January 2020
Vexcel Imaging, a specialist in aerial imagery data, cameras, and photogrammetry software, has agreed to acquire the imagery sourcing group from Verisk’s Geomni business. The deal will combine Geomni’s imagery surveying and content-related teams and assets into Vexcel, and will also see Verisk become a minority owner in Vexcel, with full ... Read the full article
Reserve release boosts RLI to $16.5m Q4 underwriting income
23rd January 2020
US property and casualty (P&C) insurer RLI has beniftted from a $16.2 million reserve release in the fourth quarter of 2019. This reserve release largely accounts for RLI’s reported Q4 underwriting income of $16.5 million, a $2.8 million increase from the previous quarter. RLI posted a 92.4 combined ratio, compared to a ... Read the full article
Travelers net income rises but underlying combined ratio weakens in Q4
23rd January 2020
Travelers has reported a 41% rise in net income to $873 million for the fourth-quarter of 2019 while its underlying combined ratio weakened slightly to 92.1%, when compared with the same period in 2018. The insurer's net income jumped significantly in Q4 from the $621 million reported a year earlier, while ... Read the full article
Markel & RenRe back new policy from AI start-up Cowbell Cyber
23rd January 2020
Reinsurers Markel Global Reinsurance Company and Renaissance Re Holdings are among a group of companies that have provided backing for a new policy from Cowbell Cyber, a start-up focused on AI-powered cyber insurance for SMEs. The policy, called Cowbell Prime 100, is designed to enable insurance agents to issue personalised cyber ... Read the full article
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