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Life insurance and reinsurance news and analysis can be found below. The life insurance and reinsurance sector remains a key component in providing life, annuity, accident, health and benefits related insurance and reinsurance products.
Swiss Re partners with PALIG to launch online life claims submission portal
31st March 2026
Swiss Re, one of the world's largest reinsurance companies, has developed and launched an online claims submission portal for life insurance beneficiaries in conjunction with Pan‑American Life Insurance Group (PALIG), a provider of life, accident, and health insurance throughout the Americas. The new portal aims to expand digital access to the ... Read the full article
Aegon puts forward Marco Keim as nominee to the Supervisory Board a.s.r.
31st March 2026
Aegon, a provider of life insurance, pensions and asset management services, has put forward Marco Keim as its nominee to the Supervisory Board of a.s.r. The appointment would see Keim take over from Lard Friese as a non-independent member, reflecting Aegon’s position as a significant shareholder with an interest of roughly ... Read the full article
Pacific Life survey finds AI improving efficiency as underwriting faces talent gap
26th March 2026
Pacific Life, a US-based provider of life insurance and annuity products, has released findings from its 2026 Underwriting Outlook Survey, offering insight into how underwriting is evolving across the life insurance sector. Pacific Life reported that the survey gathered responses from more than 100 senior underwriting and insurance executives and was ... Read the full article
US life insurance premiums hit record $17.5bn in 2025: LIMRA
23rd March 2026
LIMRA, the research and consulting organisation supporting the insurance and financial services sector, reported that US individual life insurance new annualised premium climbed past $17.5 billion in 2025, establishing a new industry high. According to LIMRA’s individual life insurance sales survey, total new premium increased 10% compared with the previous year, ... Read the full article
Certua Life launches as first new UK life insurer in nearly two decades
17th March 2026
Certua Life Limited has officially launched, becoming the first new protection-focused life insurer to be authorised in the UK in nearly two decades. Certua Life combines an insurance licence with technology designed to embed life insurance into the digital services millions of people already use. More than half of UK adults have ... Read the full article
AM Best reports gradual erosion in capital quality across US L/A market
4th March 2026
According to a newly released study by the credit rating agency AM Best, the US life and annuity (L/A) insurance sector continues to demonstrate overall financial strength, yet the composition of its capital base is becoming less robust. The agency attributes this shift to insurers’ increasing reliance on softer forms of ... Read the full article
US life insurers maintain steady but uneven profitability as rate support eases: Moody’s
3rd March 2026
Credit rating agency Moody’s reports that publicly traded US life insurers delivered solid, though uneven, operating profitability in the fourth quarter of 2025, as the boost from higher interest rates subsided and yields stabilised. While results were generally positive compared with the prior year, sequential performance for some companies weakened due ... Read the full article
JAB Insurance to acquire Utmost Group’s Life and Pensions business
29th December 2025
JAB Insurance, the global insurance business of JAB Holding Company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire from Utmost Group plc its Life and Pensions (ULP) business. ULP is a UK life and pensions platform with more than £5 billion of assets under management and serving approximately 290,000 pensioners. The platform ... Read the full article
EMEA insurance market to enter 2026 on steady footing: Fitch
5th December 2025
Credit rating agency Fitch Ratings states that the broader EMEA insurance landscape enters 2026 on a steady footing, supported by reliable operating performance, firm capitalisation and continued momentum in new business generation. According to Fitch Ratings, conditions across the region are steady enough to justify a 'neutral' outlook despite muted economic ... Read the full article
PRA’s LIST 2025 reinforces Fitch’s view that the UK life sector is well capitalised
3rd December 2025
Fitch Ratings said the UK Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA) 2025 Life Insurance Stress Test (LIST 2025) reinforces its view that the sector is well capitalised, but warns that real-world stress scenarios could lead to a different outcome due to higher market interconnectedness than the exercise assumes and associated spillover effects. Published ... Read the full article
Life insurance drives growth as Colombia’s non-life segment faces rising leverage risks: AM Best
1st December 2025
Colombia, among Latin America’s more advanced insurance markets, is seeing growth increasingly driven by the life insurance sector, according to a new AM Best report. While non-life insurance continues to hold the larger share of market participants and has benefited from higher demand in commercial, motor, and liability lines, AM Best’s ... Read the full article
Moody’s notes steadier growth in US life insurers’ CLO Holdings
24th November 2025
The credit analysis and research firm Moody’s Ratings reports that US life insurers continue to expand their investments in collateralised loan obligations, though the pace of increase has become more measured compared with previous years. The agency attributes this to insurers distributing new funds across a broader suite of private assets, ... Read the full article
UK life insurers ‘resilient’ to severe financial markets stress: PRA’s LIST 2025
18th November 2025
Major UK life insurers, particularly the eleven largest firms active in the bulk purchase annuity (BPA) market, are resilient to a severe but plausible financial markets stress scenario, according to the recently published Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) 2025 Life Insurance Stress Test (LIST 2025). Conducted for the third time, this exercise ... Read the full article
French insurance sector stabilises, but political uncertainty looms: Moody’s
18th November 2025
Moody’s, the credit rating agency, has revised its outlook on France’s insurance industry, signalling a shift to stability in the property and casualty (P&C) segment while maintaining a stable view on the life insurance sector. The agency notes that profitability across the P&C market is beginning to recover as premium increases ... Read the full article
Miller announces new life insurance product to support farmers affected by inheritance tax changes
24th October 2025
Miller, an independent specialist re/insurance broker, has announced the launch of Succession Insurance, a new life insurance product designed to help farmers manage the impact of recent inheritance tax reforms on agricultural assets introduced in the Autumn Budget. The changes to inheritance tax have created new obstacles for farmers planning to ... Read the full article
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