Reinsurance News
18th April 2018
AXIS Re, a division of Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, has named Megan Thomas as its Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), based in New York and reporting directly to Steve Arora, AXIS Re's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In her new role, Thomas will join the reinsurance leadership team, and will assume responsibility for product ... Read the full article
16th April 2018
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has announced the launch of the AXIS Cyber Center of Excellence, a project which aims to develop products and solutions for mitigating cyber threats associated with companies’ tangible and intangible assets. Led by Dan Trueman, Global Head of Cyber at AXIS, the new center will address the ... Read the full article
19th February 2018
Rating agency A.M. Best has turned negative on the ratings of Bermudian insurance and reinsurance firm AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, citing "unfavorable trends in the group’s operating performance." Specifically, A.M. Best said that AXIS' insurance segment is the main source of its concern, saying that, "Historically AXIS’ operating performance ranks among ... Read the full article
13th February 2018
Albert Benchimol, the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of insurer and reinsurer AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, isn't anticipating hard markets of the past but does expect rates in the reinsurance sector to improve throughout 2018. Global insurers and reinsurers are now reporting their fourth-quarter and full-year 2017 results, and during ... Read the full article
29th January 2018
Enstar Group Limited's Lloyd's managing agency, StarStone Underwriting Limited, has completed a reinsurance-to-close deal with AXIS Managing Agency Limited, which sees Enstar's Syndicate 2008 reinsure to close the 2015 and prior underwriting years of account of Novae Syndicate 2007. Under the terms of the reinsurance-to-close transaction, Enstar will assume net reinsurance reserves of roughly £600 million ... Read the full article
23rd January 2018
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has announced enhancements to its operating model, which includes the launch of a new Global Underwriting and Analytics unit (GUA) and the appointment of Eric Gesick as Group Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO). The announcement comes after AXIS' recent takeover of Novae, and marks a continuation and acceleration of its ... Read the full article
17th January 2018
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has reported a preliminary catastrophe loss estimate of $130 million as a result of fourth-quarter 2017 catastrophe and weather-related events. The total is net of tax and estimated recoveries from both reinsurance and retrocessional covers, and is also inclusive of reinstatement premiums. The estimate includes a change in ... Read the full article
9th January 2018
AXIS Managing Agency Ltd., the managing agent arm of international insurance and reinsurance firm AXIS Capital that oversees the group's Lloyd's of London operations, has now taken over management and oversight of the Novae operations at Lloyd's. AXIS Capital acquired Novae Group in 2017, inheriting new Lloyd's operations to add ... Read the full article
8th January 2018
AXIS Insurance, a subsidiary of AXIS Capital Holdings, has promoted Nicole Lim to Deputy Chief Underwriting Officer, CUO, for Singapore with immediate effect. Lim was promoted from a role as Vice President of Underwriting for AXIS' Singapore office. As CUO she will oversee AXIS' Singapore insurance business, reporting to Rory MacGregor, the former ... Read the full article
9th November 2017
AXIS Capital has reported a preliminary pre-tax net loss estimate for the California wildfires in the range of $35 million to $45 million - the current estimated industry insured losses for the event are between $4 billion and $8 billion. The AXIS loss estimate is primarily based on assessment of losses ... Read the full article
3rd November 2017
The pricing of catastrophe risks in the insurance and reinsurance sector needs to reflect the increased severity and frequency of events, and the extremely costly third-quarter could lead to a change in risk perception, according to industry executives. Historically, the occurrence of significant price increases across the reinsurance market happens at ... Read the full article
31st October 2017
Rating agency Fitch has revised its outlook on the ratings of Bermudian insurance and reinsurance firm AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. to negative, in the wake of recent catastrophe losses. Citing declining capital adequacy, adverse earnings trends, the reinsurers sensitivity to changes in loss estimates and the $578 million of net after-tax ... Read the full article
23rd October 2017
Bermudian insurance and reinsurance firm AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has hired Steve Arora from Swiss Re to become the new Chief Executive Officer of AXIS Re. Jan Ekberg has been interim CEO of AXIS Re since Jay Nichols stepped down from the role earlier this year. Arora has been hired from ... Read the full article
18th October 2017
Bermudian insurer and reinsurer, AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Novae Group, after receiving all necessary regulatory approval. The deal was initially announced in July, 2017, and after AXIS increased its offer by 2% in August, the firm then completed phase one ... Read the full article
13th October 2017
AXIS Capital Holdings has announced two senior appointments within the U.S. Programs, Property & Casualty team of its insurance business unit. Tim McGee has been promoted to Senior Vice President, U.S. Programs Underwriting Officer and Franklin Maccotan has been hired as Vice President, U.S. Programmes. Both appointees report to John Tatum, Executive ... Read the full article
