Reinsurance News
IRB Brasil Re continues to dominate Brazilian reinsurance market
26th September 2019
Brazilian reinsurer IRB Brasil Resseguros SA (IRB Brasil Re) continues to dominate the market in its home country, controlling around 33.1% of the market share. Data from Terra Brasis Resseguros (Terra Brasis Re) broke down the rankings for reinsurers operating in Brazil for the 12 months ending June 30, 2019. Brazilian companies ... Read the full article
AXA XL overtakes AIG as top D&O insurer: Fitch
26th September 2019
AXA XL has taken over from AIG as the leading directors and officers (D&O) insurer, now commanding a 15% market share, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings. Fitch noted that perennial market leader AIG has conceded significant market share over the last several years in an effort to reposition its book ... Read the full article
US flood risk awareness increasing as major insurers pull back: analysts
26th September 2019
While current property flood risk disclosure requirements are set at the state level and can vary quite significantly, Morgan Stanley analysts note how some states have begun implementing more stringent conditions following recent major events. Texas, for example, revised its flood risk disclosure requirements following Hurricane Harvey, with property owners now ... Read the full article
Markel International announces claims leadership appointments
26th September 2019
Specialist insurer Markel International has announced a series of claims leadership appointments for its wholesale and national markets businesses. Chris O’Shea, who has been with the firm since 2016, will become claims director for wholesale. He has over 19 years of technical claims handling experience in the London Market. Richard Napoli has been ... Read the full article
Risk Strategies acquires safety management firm Pro Safety Services
26th September 2019
US insurance brokerage and risk management firm Risk Strategies has announced that it plans to acquire Pro Safety Services, LLC, a provider of safety and loss control services to construction companies, builders, and other industries. Founded in 1999 by its current president John McCarthy, Pro Safety Services offers a range of ... Read the full article
AIG makes dual leadership appointments to specialty business
26th September 2019
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has announced the appointments of Steve Eccles and James Langdon to senior positions within its global specialty business. Eccles will join AIG as Global Head of Aerospace, General Insurance, while Langdon will become UK Head of Energy & Construction, General Insurance. Based in London, Eccles will be ... Read the full article
AXA XL promotes two underwriters within M&A insurance team
26th September 2019
Global re/insurer AXA XL has promoted Michelle Jensen and Pietro Tarone to the roles of senior underwriter and underwriter, within its mergers and acquisitions insurance team, respectively. The promotions of Jensen and Tarone, both of whom will be based in New York, reflect AXA XL’s continued focus on M&A insurance solutions. Jensen ... Read the full article
Everest Insurance announces buyout of Salus Systems
26th September 2019
Everest Insurance, a division of global reinsurer Everest Re Group, has purchased the remaining shares of its joint venture partner Salus Systems. Salus was founded in 2017 and develops and markets ZERO, a collaborative safety management platform for the insurance industry. The interactive platform is designed to enrich the safety environment of ... Read the full article
Re/insurance associations seek IFRS 17 delay to 2023
26th September 2019
A group of international insurance associations have called on the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to delay the implementation date of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 17 to January 2023. The group, which includes Insurance Europe, argue that more time is needed to make further vital improvements to the new accounting ... Read the full article
Rothesay Life completes record-sized UK pension buy-out
26th September 2019
Rothesay Life, the specialist insurer of defined benefit pension schemes, has agreed to a £4.7 billion bulk annuity insurance buy-out of the pension scheme of telent, the UK radio, telecommunication, and internet systems installation and services provider. The deal, which is the largest full scheme buy-out ever undertaken in the UK, ... Read the full article
Swiss Re, Allianz & Zurich commit to net zero emissions by 2050
26th September 2019
Re/insurance giants Swiss Re, Allianz and Zurich are among a group 12 global companies that have committed to transitioning their investment portfolios to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance represents more than US $2.4 trillion, and was convened by the UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative and the ... Read the full article
Guidewire updates cyber risk model Cyence
26th September 2019
Guidewire Software, a platform provider for property and casualty re/insurers, has updated its cyber risk management modelling solution Cyence. Cyence, acquired by Guidewire in 2017, combines economic modelling, cybersecurity, machine learning and Internet scale data collection to help risk takers assess the financial impact of cyber threats. This latest model update, the ... Read the full article
Climate resilience requires action on both sides of the balance sheet: BoE Governor
25th September 2019
Building global climate resilience will require insurers and reinsurers to take more action on both sides of their balance sheet, according to Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England (BoE). Speaking at the UN General’s Climate Action Summit 2019, Carney said that, on the liability side, re/insurers must focus on ... Read the full article
Swiss Re’s iptiQ and Samsung partner to close $26trn L&H protection gap
25th September 2019
A subsidiary of reinsurance giant Swiss Re, iptiQ Americas, has entered into a strategic partnership with Samsung Electronics Ltd. designed to close the $26 trillion life and health (L&H) insurance protection gap. According to analysis by the Swiss Re Institute in September 2018, the huge life and health protection gap impacts ... Read the full article
Aon introduces AI-powered claims analysis platform
25th September 2019
Global re/insurance broker Aon has announced the launch of ClaimsMonitor.X, an artificial intelligence-driven platform that can quickly analyse claims notes and provide insights into an insurer’s efficiency and profitability. The platform, available to insurers in the US and Canada, has been developed in collaboration with CLARA analytics, a provider of AI ... Read the full article
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