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Reinsurance renewals news
Reinsurance renewals are the key points in the year when the majority of reinsurance contract renewal negotiations occur and are completed.
The reinsurance renewal seasons provide insight into reinsurance pricing, contract terms, reinsurance market positioning and the direction of future trends in the market.
Reinsurance rates to increase regardless of cat activity: Fitch
26th August 2022
Analysts at Fitch Ratings have argued that reinsurance rates will continue to harden during the January 2023 renewals, even in the absence of significant catastrophe losses throughout the second half of the year. In a new report, the rating agency notes that, at $34 billion, H1 worldwide insured natural catastrophe losses ... Read the full article
Pricing conditions to remain favourable for reinsurers in 2023: Moody’s
25th August 2022
Analysts at Moody’s have asserted that pricing conditions will remain favourable for reinsurers next year, with momentum expected to continue through the January 2023 renewal season. With the Atlantic hurricane still to run its course this year, the rating agency believes it remains too early to determine whether reinsurers will post ... Read the full article
Lemonade buys catastrophe excess-of-loss reinsurance at July renewal
15th August 2022
Growing insurtech Lemonade has secured catastrophe excess-of-loss reinsurance to protect its business at the July 1 2022 renewals. The insurtech company continues to utilise reinsurance more for capital efficiency reasons than for risk management, but the catastrophe excess-of-loss treaty is clearly designed to moderate the impacts of major US catastrophe events ... Read the full article
Lemonade reduces quota share reinsurance cession rate again
12th August 2022
Lemonade has said it is to cede 55% of its gross premiums to the quota sharing reinsurance program it entered into two years ago, down from the original 75%, and the 70% it had reduced the cession rate to last year. The announcement was made in the firm’s letter to shareholders, ... Read the full article
Everest Re expects further market improvements at 1/1
3rd August 2022
Juan Andrade, President, CEO and Director of Bermuda-based reinsurer Everest Re, has said that he expects further improvements in the reinsurance market going into the January 2023 renewal period. Speaking on an earnings call alongside the release of Everest Re’s Q2 results, Andrade addressed the issue of market conditions through the ... Read the full article
US property cat reinsurance rates up by 15% in 2022: Guy Carpenter
25th July 2022
So far this year, property catastrophe reinsurance rates-on-line in the U.S. have risen by almost 15%, representing the largest increase in the Guy Carpenter U.S. Property Catastrophe Rate on Line Index since 2006. Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter's index is a proprietary index of U.S. property catastrophe reinsurance rate-on-line movements, so ... Read the full article
H1 2022 “most challenging property market for years” – Klisura, Guy Carpenter
25th July 2022
The first half of 2022 was “the most challenging property market we have seen in a number of years”, according to Dean Klisura, President and Chief Executive Officer of Guy Carpenter. Speaking during Marsh McLennan’s Q2 2022 earnings call, he said that US property catastrophe rates have ... Read the full article
Catastrophe losses erode almost half of Travelers’ aggregate reinsurance retention
22nd July 2022
US primary insurer Travelers accumulated $935 million of qualifying losses towards the aggregate retention of its $2 billion property catastrophe reinsurance treaty during H1 2022, according to the company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Dan Frey. Yesterday, Travelers announced a decline in net income for the second-quarter on the back of ... Read the full article
Travelers upsizes northeast catastrophe reinsurance by $100m at July renewal
21st July 2022
US primary insurance carrier Travelers has grown the size of its main Northeast Property Catastrophe Excess-of-Loss Reinsurance coverage by $100 million at the July 1st, 2022, reinsurance renewals, as the firm saw price increases aligned with those seen on its inwards book. For 2022, the Northeast Property Catastrophe reinsurance agreement sees ... Read the full article
Aeolus launched Florida-focused reinsurance facility at June 1 renewals
12th July 2022
Bermuda domiciled reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused investment fund manager, Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., launched a largely Florida-focused reinsurance facility at the June 1st, 2022, renewals, called Corbel, according to Artemis' sources. Our ILS-focused sister site, Artemis, reported yesterday that Corbel is mostly focused on providing reinsurance capacity to cedents ... Read the full article
“Demand for catastrophe bonds outpacing industry’s ability to meet them” – Aon
8th July 2022
Aon’s latest Reinsurance Market Dynamics: June and July Reinsurance Renewals says that the current demand for catastrophe bonds is outpacing the ability of the industry to supply them. According to the report, the current situation has arisen because insurers and reinsurers have turned increasingly to alternative capital markets to supplement traditional ... Read the full article
Assurant finalises 2022 property cat reinsurance program
7th July 2022
Assurant has finalised its 2022 property catastrophe reinsurance program, successfully placing $1.16bn in loss coverage within its main U.S. program. At the same time, the company has maintained an $80m retention per event, limiting its financial exposure against severe weather and other hazards. In addition, the company said it was able to ... Read the full article
Gallagher Re finds pricing in US Nationwide market up by 40% in spots
7th July 2022
Gallagher Re’s latest mid-year renewals report has found that property rate movements in the US has increased by up to 40%. Pricing in some cases in the Florida market have even increased by up to 50%. In the report, Gallagher Re stated that risk excess and catastrophe capacity started to become ... Read the full article
Stand-alone protection for cyber ‘essentially unobtainable’ at economical terms: Gallagher Re
6th July 2022
According to Gallagher Re’s mid-year renewals report, stand-alone risk protection for cyber is essentially unobtainable at economical terms, however some cyber risk protection is still available via composite casualty treaties. The report also highlights how there is a continued appetite on the proportional side for supporting existing programmes as both cyber ... Read the full article
CEA’s risk transfer program declines to roughly $9.3bn
6th July 2022
The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) has seen a roughly $600 million dip in its total capacity from the end of 2021, as the entity's risk transfer program declines in size to just shy of $9.3 billion amid a firming reinsurance market. Total capacity, as of the end of May 2022, stood ... Read the full article