Reinsurance News
Pen Underwriting agrees long-term partnership to support non-standard property business
8th April 2026
Pen Underwriting, a multi-class and multi-territory managing general agent (MGA), has entered into a multi-year strategic arrangement to support its non-standard household insurance portfolio across the UK, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man. From 1 April 2026, a new insurer consortium led by Zurich and Hiscox will provide capacity for Pen’s ... Read the full article
Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions appoints Jose Maria Lopez as Marine Product Coordinator
8th April 2026
Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions, the reinsurance division of global broker Aon, has announced the appointment of Jose Maria Lopez as Marine Product Coordinator for EMEA Facultative Reinsurance. This role is in addition to Lopez’s current responsibilities leading the Latin America Marine team. In his new position, he will drive the coordination of Aon’s ... Read the full article
Club Vita makes senior promotions across US and Canada
8th April 2026
Club Vita, an independent longevity analytics partner for pension plans, insurers, reinsurers, and advisers, has announced four senior promotions across its US and Canadian teams to strengthen its North American leadership. In the US, Erik Pickett has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Chief Actuarial Content Officer, and Natalie Gleed to ... Read the full article
Bridgehaven enters European MGA market with Arrow Risk Management partnership
8th April 2026
Bridgehaven Europe Specialty DAC, a European insurer focused on commercial and specialty risks, has entered into its first Managing General Agent (MGA) capacity agreement in Europe with Arrow Risk Management GMBH (Arrow). This agreement comes after Bridgehaven’s 2025 acquisition of Dublin-based SureStone, and represents an early move in the company’s broader ... Read the full article
Thornthwaite appointed Goosehead’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
8th April 2026
Goosehead Insurance, an independent personal lines insurance agency, has announced the appointment of Martin Thornthwaite as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, succeeding John O’Connor, who will be departing the company and pursuing other opportunities. In his new position, Thornthwaite will be responsible for Goosehead’s Legal, Compliance, and Human Resource departments. Furthermore, ... Read the full article
Kalepa names Audrey Howell as Head of Product
8th April 2026
Kalepa, a company specialising in AI-powered underwriting solutions, has appointed Audrey Howell as Head of Product to lead product vision and strategy, and drive innovation with AI advancements across the platform. In her new role, Howell aims to deliver the automation, risk intelligence, and portfolio steering that insurers rely on to grow ... Read the full article
KatRisk expands global catastrophe modelling capabilities with RED acquisition
7th April 2026
KatRisk, a provider of catastrophic risk modelling software to the insurance and financial services industries, has acquired RED, a specialist provider of catastrophe models, including earthquake, flood, landslide, and wind risk models. This acquisition accelerates the development of a high-fidelity U.S. earthquake model and strengthens a multi-peril catastrophe modeling portfolio for ... Read the full article
SI Re appoints Simon Parten as ILS Portfolio Manager
7th April 2026
SIGNAL IDUNA Reinsurance Ltd (SI Re), the Swiss based reinsurer, has announced the appointment of Simon Parten as ILS Portfolio Manager, effective 1st June 2026. In his new role, Parten will further develop SI Re's Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) portfolio, which serves as a key diversifier within the company’s reinsurance book. He brings ... Read the full article
Topsail Re announces Senior Underwriting promotion and CIO appointment
7th April 2026
Topsail Re, a reinsurance company, has confirmed the promotion of Michael Swartz to Senior Vice President, Underwriting, and the appointment of Jason Callaway as Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President, joining the firm’s Executive Team. Michael Swartz, who has been with the organisation for more than two and a half ... Read the full article
Tim Mossing joins Federato as CCO to drive AI-native insurance transformations
7th April 2026
Federato, an AI-powered underwriting platform for the insurance industry, has announced the appointment of Tim Mossing as Chief Customer Officer (CCO) to help scale customer delivery and long-term outcomes. As COO Mossing will lead the expansion of the company's Forward Deployed and Customer Engineering teams. His arrival comes as Federato continues ... Read the full article
Specialty Program Group unifies its life and annuity distribution under one platform
7th April 2026
Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG), a specialty insurance platform, has launched SPG Life & Annuity, unifying its life insurance and annuity distribution businesses under a single national platform. AgencyONE, Brokers' Service Marketing Group (BSMG), and Business Underwriters Associates (BUA) will now operate under SPG Life & Annuity. The platform combines longstanding industry ... Read the full article
Winnie Loh to lead Aon’s real estate and data centre team in Southeast Asia
7th April 2026
Global insurance and reinsurance group Aon has announced the appointment of Winnie Loh as real estate and data centre leader for Southeast Asia, effective immediately. Based in Singapore, Loh, who brings over 20 years of experience in the insurance sector, will lead the strategic direction and client service delivery for Aon’s ... Read the full article
Soft market persists for reinsurers amid rate declines and strong capital, Autonomous finds
7th April 2026
Autonomous, a financial research and analytics firm, reports that the reinsurance sector is navigating a persistently soft market, with solid profitability continuing to influence renewals. According to Autonomous, the first month of the year saw reinsurers underperform relative to expectations, with renewal outcomes slightly weaker than anticipated. However, Autonomous notes that a ... Read the full article
Arch Insurance North America expands primary cyber coverage to Canada
7th April 2026
Arch Insurance North America has expanded its primary cyber coverage solution, Arch CyPro, to include Canada, effective April 1st, 2026. The cyber coverage, which builds on Arch’s established excess layer cyber capabilities, will be available in Canada through Arch Insurance Canada Ltd. Arch CyPro introduces primary cyber coverage to the portfolio, expanding ... Read the full article
Critical cloud outage risk remains significant despite decline in occurrence: Parametrix
7th April 2026
Parametrix, a provider of digital business interruption solutions, disclosed in a new whitepaper that although critical cloud service outages declined in 2025 after several years of sustained increases, the risk remains significant. According to the firm's Cloud Outage Risk Report 2025, after reaching a peak of 244.8 hours in 2024, the ... Read the full article
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