Reinsurance News

Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. merges into Assured Guaranty

9th August 2024

Assured Guaranty Inc. (AG), a company that offers financial guarantees and credit enhancement products, has completed the merger of Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. (AGM), with AG as the surviving company. The merger was initially announced on July 8, 2024, and was effective as of August 1, 2024. With the completion of ... Read the full article

Rockford Mutual selects Sapiens ReinsurancePro to automate reinsurance processes

9th August 2024

Rockford Mutual Insurance Company has chosen Sapiens ReinsurancePro to fully automate its reinsurance management processes, aiming to enhance efficiency and reduce costly claims leakage. Sapiens ReinsurancePro streamlines the underwriting and administration of reinsurance, including treaty and facultative, ceded, assumed, and retroceded reinsurance. Designed exclusively for the reinsurance market, it manages the ... Read the full article

Robert Foskey named new CEO & President of Everen Group

9th August 2024

The Everen Group, a consortium of energy insurance companies, has appointed Robert Foskey as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective August 5, 2024. Foskey brings extensive experience and a successful history with the Everen Group and is poised to guide the company into its next chapter of development and ... Read the full article

Bondaval appoints Centrica’s Paul Collier Group VP Risk Underwriting

9th August 2024

Bondaval, a provider of technology-enabled credit insurance solutions, has announced the appointment of Paul Collier as Group Vice President of Risk Underwriting. In his new role, Collier will lead all risk underwriting activity and assist in setting underwriting and pricing strategies aiming to minimise potential losses and enhance the company’s profitability, ... Read the full article

Kemper’s net income reaches $75.4m in Q2, Specialty P&C underlying CR hits 89.6%

9th August 2024

In their results for the second quarter of 2024, Kemper Corporation has posted a net income of $75.4 million, a major improvement compared to a net loss of $97.1 million from the second quarter of 2023. Kemper's total revenues for Q2'24 decreased $132.9 million, or 10.5%, to $1,129.9 million, compared to the previous ... Read the full article

Property reinsurance market a great place to be, says Lancashire CUO Gregory

8th August 2024

Bermuda-based carrier Lancashire Holdings Ltd. reported strong growth in its property reinsurance portfolio during the first six months of 2024, and recent comments from Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), Paul Gregory, suggest the firm will continue to take advantage of favourable market conditions. For the first half of this year, Lancashire's ... Read the full article

AM Best upgrades Dunav-Re’s ratings, reflecting strong financial performance

8th August 2024

AM Best, the credit rating agency, has upgraded the ratings for Serbian reinsurance company Dunav-Re a.d.o, raising its Financial Strength Rating from B+ (Good) to B++ (Good) and its Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating from “bbb-” (Good) to “bbb” (Good), with the outlook adjusted from positive to stable. These upgraded ratings are ... Read the full article

Assurant sees net income increase 21% in Q2 2024

8th August 2024

US specialty insurance group Assurant has reported a GAAP net income of $188.7 million for the second quarter of 2024, representing a 21% increase compared to the $156.3 million reported in the same period last year. According to the company, this increase was mainly due to a lower after-tax loss from ... Read the full article

Lancashire Holdings appoints Linda Ventresca as Non-Exec Director

8th August 2024

Bermuda-based Lancashire Holdings Limited has announced the appointment of Linda Ventresca, former Head of Digital at AXIS Capital, as a Non-Executive Director. An experienced senior leader in the insurance industry, Ventresca brings first-hand knowledge of the US and international insurance and reinsurance markets to her new position with Lancashire. She worked at ... Read the full article

CINICO launches new home insurance policy with Parametric Coverage

8th August 2024

The Cayman Islands National Insurance Company (CINICO) has announced it is now offering home insurance policy with Parametric Coverage. This parametric solution was created to pay out pre-agreed amounts automatically to cover incidental expenses, without the need to submit a claim in the event of a hurricane of a Category 3 ... Read the full article

Howden Re teams with Temblor to enhance Turkish earthquake risk & impact assessment

8th August 2024

Howden Re, the reinsurance and risk advisory arm of Howden, has entered into a partnership with Temblor Inc., the catastrophe modelling company that specialises in seismic hazard and risk assessment, which will see Temblor provide Howden Re with access to their SiteAmp model, providing critical data-driven insights on both the ... Read the full article

Munich Re CEO anticipates strong 1/1 2025 reinsurance renewals

8th August 2024

Global reinsurer Munich Re is confident that favourable market conditions will persist at the January 1st, 2025, renewals, as the firm sees continued strong demand from buyers and discipline from sellers, according to CEO, Joachim Wenning. “Looking at the factors that drive reinsurance rates, I cannot detect anything material that would ... Read the full article

Global Indemnity’s net income increases 83% in H1’24

8th August 2024

Global Indemnity Group (GBLI) has released its results for the first half of 2024, which includes an 83% increase in net income available to shareholders of $21.2 million, compared to $11.6 million from the same period in 2023. GBLI's operating income for H1'24 also witnessed a notable increase, as it climbed ... Read the full article

Everest Insurance names Brian Zink Head of Specialty Underwriters and US Financial Lines

8th August 2024

Everest Group, Ltd., a provider of reinsurance and insurance solutions, has announced that its insurance division, Everest Insurance, has appointed Brian Zink as Senior Vice President, Head of Everest Specialty Underwriters (ESU) and US Financial Lines. Zink will report directly to Bill Hazelton, Executive Vice President of Everest Insurance and President ... Read the full article

Porch Group sees $110.8m of revenues, files updated application to form Reciprocal

8th August 2024

Porch Group, a homeowners insurance and vertical software platform, has reported total revenue of $110.8 million, which increased 12% compared to the same period the prior year, with an improved net loss of $64.3 million in the second quarter of 2024. In Q2 2024 the firm’s net loss grew compared to ... Read the full article