Reinsurance News
13th February 2018
Global reinsurance firm PartnerRe has teamed up with agricultural technology and decision software specialists Farmers Edge in a multi-year partnership that aims to help insurers to close the agricultural insurance gap across all continents. The four-year agreement brings together precision farming technology and agricultural insurance in a deal that the pair ... Read the full article
8th February 2018
Bermuda domiciled property and casualty insurer and reinsurer, Sompo International, has announced plans to acquire Italian agricultural insurer A&A, S.r.l. (A&A). The acquisition of A&A is aligned with Sompo International's recently announced AgriSompo initiative, an international platform designed to provide innovative and coordinated agricultural risk management products tailored to local market needs. The ... Read the full article
1st November 2017
Bermuda based specialty insurance and reinsurance firm Sompo International Holdings Ltd. (formerly Endurance) has launched AgriSompo, an initiative to create an integrated agriculture insurance and reinsurance offering across the globe. AgriSompo will take a common underwriting approach along with shared expertise and technology to deliver a range of re/insurance products to ... Read the full article
26th October 2017
Africa Re, the World Bank, and the federal government are collaborating to improve insurance penetration levels among farmers through affordable insurance packages, Ken Aghoghovbia, Chief Operating Officer/Deputy Managing Director, of Africa Re said in an interview with Nigeria Today. Increased agricultural insurance penetration is expected to play a crucial role in ... Read the full article
18th October 2017
The protection gap (disparity between economic and insured losses post-event) for losses from natural disasters in Latin America reached $15 billion in 2016, with widespread impacts to various regions' vital agricultural sectors from numerous perils, but innovative insurance and reinsurance solutions can help to bridge the gap, according to reinsurance ... Read the full article
16th August 2017
Insurance against climate risks in India has lagged far behind other sectors despite India being one of the world's most vulnerable nations to the changing climate; severe weather events challenge India's economy with a set back of $9-10 billion of mostly uninsured losses every year, according to the Indian government's Ministry of ... Read the full article
25th July 2017
Indian government officials have raised concerns over potentially inadequate reinsurance supply for the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), the government-sponsored crop insurance scheme, as global reinsurers appear to be losing interest in supporting the scheme. Money Control cited industry sources who said global reinsurers operating in India have reduced exposure ... Read the full article
24th July 2017
Brazilian reinsurer, IRB Brasil RE, has licensed RMS' China and India agricultural models in an effort to expand its presence in the global reinsurance market. Global catastrophe risk modeller and analytics firm, RMS, announced recently that IRB Brasil RE has licensed the RMS® China Agricultural Model and RMS® India Agricultural Model, as ... Read the full article
6th June 2017
The African agriculture industry is in the throngs of change surrounding the technology, regulation and distribution of index based insurance - developments which are improving the operating environment for insurers as demand for insurance solutions grows. This is according to Jonathan Dixon, Chair of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) ... Read the full article
16th March 2017
Weather Risk Management Services (WRMS), a pioneer for the Indian weather insurance market, has announced plans to connect 3 million farmers across 150 districts to the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojana (PMFBY)- the Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance Scheme, BusinessLine reported. The climate risk management firm works with farmers across the country, ... Read the full article
17th February 2017
Hannover Re and Swiss Re have taken a 90% share in Sri Lanka’s state-owned National Insurance Trust Fund (NITF) agricultural insurance scheme; accepting a respective 50% and 40% of the placement, which was made through reinsurance broker J.B. Boda & Co. Three other global reinsurers, which includes Munich Re, share the ... Read the full article
19th January 2017
Indian state backed reinsurance firm General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re) has been able to double its growth thanks to the roll-out of a government backed crop and weather-index insurance scheme. As the state-backed reinsurer, GIC Re has priority on re/insurance schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, ... Read the full article
