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All of our Reinsurance News related to the Florida insurance marketplace, featuring news and analysis of the annual June renewal season, as well as Florida-specific stories.
Florida’s property insurers hit performance and surplus lows: AM Best
7th June 2021
AM Best has reported that a group of property insurers in Florida have hit a five-year performance and surplus low in 2020, and given persisting and significant market hurdles, the rating agency believes companies will find sustaining current surplus levels a challenge. Read the full article
Universal secures highest level of open market cat capacity at reinsurance renewal
1st June 2021
Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc.'s wholly-owned insurance company subsidiaries have completed their 2021-2022 reinsurance programs, which includes the purchase of more open market catastrophe capacity than ever before. Effective June 1st, 2021, Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC) and American Platinum Property and Casualty Insurance Company (APPCIC), have completed their reinsurance ... Read the full article
Optimism for sustained reinsurance rate increases at mid-year renewals: KBW
21st May 2021
Bermuda and Florida re/insurance market executives are optimistic about sustained rate increases at the upcoming June 1st, 2021 renewals, although lower year-on-year rises are expected as a result of reduced COVID-19-related fears and abundant insurance-linked securities (ILS) capacity, according to analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW). With the June and ... Read the full article
Execs see lower-than-expected Florida property cat rate rises: KBW
20th May 2021
The upcoming June 1st, 2021 reinsurance renewals appear to be orderly, although property catastrophe reinsurance rate increases in Florida are expected to come in below expectations, according to analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW). After meeting with executives this week, analysts have determined that when compared with last year, Florida ... Read the full article
Heritage CEO eyeing future return to double-digit ROEs in Florida
11th May 2021
Heritage Insurance Chief Executive Kirk Lusk says his company is implementing rating and underwriting actions within the Florida market that will facilitate a to return to double-digit ROEs in the future. Speaking during a recent earnings call, Lusk identified the Florida’s litigious environment as having creating such a difficult environment to ... Read the full article
Florida remains challenging despite declining AOB lawsuits, FedNat CEO Braun
10th May 2021
FedNat’s Chief Executive Officer Mike Braun has underlined the continuing challenges posed by Florida’s homeowners market, despite a sharp decline in Assignment of Benefits-related lawsuits. Speaking on a first quarter earnings call, Braun said overall litigation against property insurance companies in the state continues at levels that are far above the ... Read the full article
We have to separate Florida from rest of portfolio: Guy Carp CEO Hearn
29th April 2021
Speaking during the Marsh McLennan first-quarter 2021 earnings call, CEO of reinsurance broking arm Guy Carpenter, Peter Hearn commented that at the upcoming mid-year reinsurance renewals, Florida will have to be separated from other business. Hearn said: “We have to separate Florida from the rest of our portfolio because it’s a ... Read the full article
KCC Flood Model certified by Florida Commission
17th December 2020
Karen Clark & Company’s (KCC) Flood Model has been certified by the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology, making it the first to be accepted by them. The KCC Flood Model covers coastal flooding from storm surge and ... Read the full article
Orchid & Homesite set up new Florida insurer
12th November 2020
Orchid Underwriters Agency, a specialty underwriter of catastrophe-exposed property insurance, has partnered with US property insurer Homesite to create a new Florida-based reciprocal insurance company. The new company, called TRUE (Trusted Resource Underwriters Exchange), is domiciled in Tampa and will offer owner-occupied homeowners insurance, as well as bundled, optional coverages and ... Read the full article
Rate increases to offset rising reinsurance costs, says FedNat
13th August 2020
FedNat CFO Ronald Jordan has said that filed rate increases are expected to largely offset the company’s higher catastrophe reinsurance costs in the second half of 2020. Speaking alongside the release of FedNat’s Q2 results, Jordan explained that the firm would continue to restrict underwriting in its Florida book until rates ... Read the full article
HCI Group eyes rate increases to counter rising reinsurance costs
4th August 2020
The insurance subsidiaries of HCI Group plan rate increases to offset, in part, increased reinsurance costs. HCI’s largest subsidiary, Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Inc., has asked state insurance regulators and received approval for a 6.9% rate increase for its homeowners’ and condominium insurance products. The rate increase will take ... Read the full article
COVID-19 to compound Florida property insurers’ woes: AM Best
7th July 2020
The numerous headwinds in Florida's property insurance market have become more complex amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by AM Best. Challenges such as higher reinsurance pricing and social inflation continue to challenge the financial strength of Florida's personal property writers and impact coverage availability and affordability in the ... Read the full article
Reinsurers refining Florida portfolios on new view of risk: GC
22nd June 2020
Analysts at Guy Carpenter have noted that there was significantly less deployable capital at the Florida renewals this year, as reinsurers were already refining their portfolios for the state based on a new “view of risk.” The broker noted that the June 1 renewal was the “first genuine test” of the ... Read the full article
Reduced Florida exposure the “most prudent course” despite higher rates: Hiscox
15th June 2020
Despite reports of some meaningful rate increases across the property catastrophe reinsurance sector at the mid-year renewals, Hiscox's Ross Nottingham has warned that improvements could be offset by the rise in the cost of risk in Florida. After consecutive heavy loss years, some fairly significant loss creep and low interest rates, ... Read the full article
Citizens opts against fresh multi-year cover on “significant price increases”
4th June 2020
Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has announced that owing to "dislocation in the reinsurance markets and significant price increases," it opted against securing multi-year reinsurance protection and placed a smaller, cost efficient risk transfer program for 2020. As we wrote previously, Citizen was reportedly out in the market seeking fresh ... Read the full article
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