Reinsurance News

Global reinsurer SCOR has reported starting the year with higher net income and return on equity, while the company continues to prune in certain liability classes, but maintains its stance on price adequacy in property catastrophe risks by growing into what it acknowledges is a competitive marketplace.

Berkshire Hathaway reduced its underwriting of property reinsurance in the first-quarter of the year and its CEO Greg Abel said during the firm’s annual meeting on Saturday that competition and capital is flowing into the industry, leading the company to be more cautious as it looks to sustain adequate underwriting returns on risks assumed.

The amount of non-life alternative reinsurance capital from catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) grew by a “historic” amount in 2025, with the latest data from Gallagher Re indicating significant inflows and non-life ILS capital rose $21 billion to $135 billion in the year.

Adoption of advanced technology and artificial intelligence are serving to expand addressable markets for the insurance and reinsurance industry, with digital infrastructure one example where data analytics are expected to help Aon access institutional sources of capital for its clients, CEO Greg Case explained today.

RenaissanceRe’s third-party capital and insurance-linked securities management unit Capital Partners is considered an “important source of resilience” for the company and a key differentiator, especially for clients that “value, scale, reliability and flexibility,” according to CEO Kevin O’Donnell.

Slide Insurance Company expects to have around $3.5 billion of catastrophe reinsurance limit in-force for a first event in 2026, an increase of roughly $1 billion and CEO Bruce Lucas has said that risk-adjusted rate decreases for its renewal are “substantial” so far.

For global re/insurance group Everest, the Mt. Logan Re third-party capital vehicle continues to build momentum throughout 2026, with its assets under management surpassing $2.6 billion, and according to Everest’s President and CEO, Jim Williamson, the vehicle continues to play an increasingly important role in the company’s capital model.

During the Markel Group first-quarter earnings call yesterday, Simon Wilson, CEO of Markel Insurance, said he is concerned about the competitive tendencies of certain MGA’s that are backed by sidecars and private capital, who he believes may be chasing US casualty risk pricing down in areas of the market where caution is warranted.

US primary insurer Allstate added more protection to its per-occurrence Nationwide Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Program, lifting the top of the tower a new high of $11.5 billion at its recent renewal, while also securing a new $1 billion aggregate excess reinsurance arrangement as well.

Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has published its third industry loss estimate from the severe convective storms (SCS) that struck Australia’s East Coast in late October, placing the insurance market loss at AU $1.501 billion (approx US $1.072bn), a slight decline from its second estimate that was published in February.