Reinsurance News
18th April 2018
Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield has reported that the traditional reinsurance sector remained profitable in 2017 despite record-breaking catastrophe losses, with net income across its Aon Benfield Aggregate (ABA) group standing at US $4 billion, and total equity rising 2.5% to $204 billion, driven in part by high investment income. The ABA ... Read the full article
17th April 2018
The Hanover Insurance Group has announced that the estimated impact of catastrophe activity on its first quarter 2018 results is in the range of US $66 to $76 million before taxes. The Hanover announced the results in line with their recently implemented policy of releasing quarterly catastrophe loss estimates if they ... Read the full article
16th April 2018
Insurance and reinsurance broker Willis Towers Watson has reported that rate increases for commercial property re/insurance are easing after sharp rises in response to 2017’s record-breaking natural catastrophe losses, although it predicts that buyers will continue to face upward pricing pressure over 2018. In its 2018 Insurance Marketplace Realities report, the ... Read the full article
12th April 2018
In its annual actuarial analysis of industry reserves, Morgan Stanley reported a year-on-year (YoY) deterioration that left Property and Casualty (P&C) industry reserves $4.3 billion deficient in 2017. This figure marks a further decline from the $2.5 billion deficiency that Morgan Stanley estimated in 2016, representing an overall deterioration of $1.8 ... Read the full article
11th April 2018
Heritage Insurance Holdings, a property and casualty (P&C) re/insurance holding company, has named Tim Johns as the next President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zephyr Insurance Company. Johns will succeed Richard Toyama as head of Zephyr, which is a provider of residential hurricane re/insurance coverage in Hawaii. Johns is already familiar ... Read the full article
10th April 2018
RBC Capital Markets has reported that, after several years of decline, 2018 pricing for European reinsurers is on the rise, with companies getting back to near term earnings growth, largely driven by Property and Casualty (P&C) business. RBC found that P&C reinsurance drove earnings growth as better-priced premium earned its way ... Read the full article
10th April 2018
Sompo International Holdings Ltd. (SI) has announced plans to establish a new retail platform that will facilitate its integration of all international operations outside of Japan that belong to Sompo Holdings. The integration expands the Sompo universe now under the direction of industry veteran John Charman. Sompo International has already completed the ... Read the full article
10th April 2018
Swiss Re’s research institute, sigma, has reported that global insured losses from disaster events totalled a record US $144 billion in 2017, leaving a $193 billion deficit in coverage when compared with total global economic losses from natural disasters and man-made catastrophes, which reached $337 billion. Sigma noted that this was ... Read the full article
5th April 2018
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe risk modeller, has collated the damage of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria from the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season, and estimated that they caused a total of US $220 billion in economic damage, $80 billion of which was covered by public and private re/insurance entities. Hurricane Harvey ... Read the full article
3rd April 2018
Moody’s considers the outlook for the Japanese property and casualty (P&C) industry to be stable, citing strong domestic profitability and capitalisation, but predicts that further improvement is unlikely. Japan’s P&C sector has maintained a stable outlook since July 2012, largely owing to the profitability of its auto insurance, which constitutes its ... Read the full article
3rd April 2018
California’s Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has announced that the Montecito mudslides, which hit California’s Santa Barbara County in January 2018, have already resulted in over 2,000 insurance claims that total more than $421 million in losses. The mudslides carried tonnes of mud and debris through the Montecito community, destroying or damaging ... Read the full article
28th March 2018
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development centre, has launched a new hail model for the South African re/insurance market in response to the growing frequency and severity of hail-related claims in the region. In South Africa, hail is a regular natural peril, and has been the main driver of catastrophe ... Read the full article
19th March 2018
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) is working with emergency services and local governments in the Northern Territory and Victoria after the states were ravaged over the weekend by Tropical Cyclone Marcus and a series of bushfires. Category 2 Tropical Cyclone Marcus, which reached peak gusts of 130km/h on Saturday, caused ... Read the full article
16th March 2018
Global consulting and actuarial firm Milliman, Inc. has announced that its Tampa office will now benefit from the addition of a Property and Casualty (P&C) team, which will be established in response to the growing demand for its property insurance analytics. The new Tampa P&C office will solidify Milliman’s presence in ... Read the full article
7th June 2017
Insurer and reinsurer XL Catlin has increased its global property insurance capacity by 25% to $500 million, and which the company says is available on a quota share or layered basis. The 25% capacity extension enables the re/insurer to address more of its domestic and international property insurance needs, as clients increasingly ... Read the full article
