Reinsurance News

At the mid-year reinsurance renewals, US primary insurance giant Allstate has shrunk its Florida excess-of-loss tower again, opting for a lower-level of protection in the state, but has continued to build-out its Nationwide protection, adding again to the top-layer of that tower.

Having made a big and successful bet on property catastrophe risks in 2023 that saw the company writing significantly more in property reinsurance premiums in the first-half of 2023, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has taken a different stance in the second-quarter of 2024.

AIG believes the collateralized reinsurance market is recovering and is back at its highest level, in limit terms, since 2016. In addition, the company believes it buys roughly 50% of global aggregate capacity provided by the ILS market, according to its CEO Peter Zaffino.

According to reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, CrowdStrike is not a particularly significant cyber catastrophe event and only represents a “Kitty Cat”, or mid-sized catastrophe loss, while the broker estimates industry losses will be between $300 million and $1 billion.

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) saw the overall rate-on-line across its reinsurance and catastrophe bond program that is in-force for the 2024 into 2025 period rise to 9.6% and as risk transfer comes with higher costs attached, the insurer of last resort is looking to options to help manage that expense.

According to Marc Grandisson, Chief Executive Officer of Arch Capital Group, there is an art to underwriting at this stage of the reinsurance market cycle and it’s all about knowing how hard to push and when to pull back.

Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re has announced that employee Michael Eberhardt will become its new Managing Director and Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of Hannover Re Bermuda.

Miller, the independent and private equity funded broking group, has announced the acquisition of a European capital advisory focused broking business that has operated at the intersection of reinsurance and capital markets, with Marc Hannebert’s 4809 Brokers AG now its third continental European purchase.

The World Bank has approved the Regional Emergency Preparedness and Inclusive Recovery Program (REPAIR), which is designed to boost financial resilience against climate shocks for Eastern and Southern African countries and leverages private market parametric disaster insurance risk transfer alongside its contingent credit DDO solution.

There were no major changes to Conduit Re’s retrocession arrangements around the middle of this year, but the company is always keeping other third-party capital partnerships such as sidecars under review, CEO Trevor Carvey has explained.