Reinsurance News
Coronavirus news coverage of relevance to reinsurance and insurance markets.
All of our Covid-19 coronavirus news, analysis and insight related to insurance and reinsurance market impacts can be found below.
The coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic of 2019-20 resulted in significant disruption and threatened losses widely across the insurance and reinsurance markets.
12th May 2021
New data from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) shows that to date more than £700 million has been paid out for claims related to the COVID-19 business interruption (BI) test case in the UK. This represents an increase of more than £100 million on the £600 million that the FCA recorded ... Read the full article
10th May 2021
Insurance broker McGill and Partners has described the aviation industry's near-term outlook as bleak, noting the differing vaccination efforts by world's governments and geographically varied return of passenger demand In 2020 the industry reported losses of $118 billion, with demand down 65.9% against 2019. Furthermore, McGill and Partners reports that nearly 17,000 ... Read the full article
10th May 2021
After consulting our substantial network of industry contacts, Reinsurance News found that a majority of respondents currently feel safe returning to an office-based working environment, 14 months on from COVID-19’s elevation to pandemic status by the World Health Organisation. COVID-19’s impact as a highly contagious respiratory disease, compounded early on by ... Read the full article
7th May 2021
While widespread immunisation from COVID-19 looks to be achievable by most developed economies by the end of the third quarter, some emerging markets may have to wait until the year-end or later, according to S&P Global Ratings. For example, analysts note India's escalating second wave and the threat it poses in ... Read the full article
5th May 2021
The Labuan International Business and Financial Centre (Labuan IBFC) has highlighted its resilience and solid performance across sectors despite the unique challenges that 2020 brought. The Labuan Financial Services Authority was able to remain agile and respond to market needs via a set of pre-emptive temporary measures to alleviate the industry’s ... Read the full article
30th April 2021
For Swiss Re, COVID-19-related losses in its P&C Reinsurance segment were muted for the first-quarter of 2021, but that doesn't mean the business is "all clear for the rest of the year," according to Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), John Dacey. Early this morning, Swiss Re announced COVID-19 losses of ... Read the full article
29th April 2021
Joachim Wenning, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Munich Re Group, has urged governments and the private sector to pool their expertise and capabilities to tackle systemic risks such as pandemics. Speaking at Munich Re’s AGM this week, Wenning argued that, as a systemic risk, pandemic is fundamentally “beyond the boundaries” of ... Read the full article
26th April 2021
Analysts at Fitch have reported that the world’s largest life and health reinsurers remained profitable in 2020, as heightened mortality losses from the coronavirus pandemic have only moderately impacted the segment so far. Fitch expects mortality claims related to the pandemic to decline in 2021 for Hannover Rueck SE, Munich Reinsurance ... Read the full article
21st April 2021
Analysts at AM Best have reported that US property and casualty (P&C) insurers returned roughly $12.9 billion in premiums over 2020 due to a reduction in exposures following the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, stay-at-home restrictions reduced the amount of travel across the US last year, which resulted in a significant reduction ... Read the full article
20th April 2021
Despite being hit with roughly $25 billion in pandemic and natural catastrophe-related losses, Aon’s Reinsurance Aggregate (ARA) of reinsurers reported positive earnings for 2020 and an increased capital base, aided by demonstrated access to new funding. ARA tracks the financial results of 23 of the world’s leading reinsurance firms annually. For 2020, ... Read the full article
16th April 2021
Initial results from US insurers suggest that COVID-19 claims costs are tailing off sharply rate rises in commercial lines, as well as in reinsurance, represent a very sharp and unrecognised margin improvement. Berenberg analysts sees this as a compound benefit to earnings growth, as it means that the earnings shortfall from ... Read the full article
14th April 2021
New data from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) shows that to date £600 million has been paid out for claims related to the COVID-19 business interruption (BI) test case in the UK. This represents an increase of 25.5% from the £478 million in pay-outs that the FCA recorded roughly one ... Read the full article
6th April 2021
Overall, publicly reported COVID-19 pandemic-related losses, IBNR reserves and estimates from insurers and reinsurers now stands at just shy of $38 billion, according to data compiled by Zurich-based financial services advisory, PeriStrat LLC. With the fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 results season now complete, COVID-19 loss numbers have, unsurprisingly, continued to trend ... Read the full article
31st March 2021
A majority of London Market insurers are reported by Fitch Ratings to have fallen to either a loss or a very slight profit in 2020, as pandemic-related costs offset most underwriting and investment profits. Despite investment returns having recovered well in the second half of 2020, Fitch states that returns were ... Read the full article
30th March 2021
Clarence Wong, Chief Economist at Hong Kong domiciled reinsurer Peak Re, has asserted that the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has served to further widen the protection gap in emerging Asian countries. The prevalence of under-insurance and non-insurance in emerging markets is well-documented and exists across various different risks, from ... Read the full article
