Reinsurance News

Insurance and reinsurance broking giant Aon has expanded its attempt to freeze the assets of beleaguered insurtech Vesttoo, with a fresh appeal to a court in Tel Aviv via its White Rock Insurance (SAC) Ltd. company, it has now been reported.

While Beazley’s CEO Adrian Cox implied recently that property insurance is more adequately priced than reinsurance, he also noted that underwriting it is a “moving feast”, as climate change is increasing the exposure re/insurers take on.

The fall-out from the Vesttoo matter shines a spotlight on enterprise risk management (ERM) for the fronting sector, while there is a potential for some in the insurance value-chain to suffer short-term reputational damage after this issue, rating agency KBRA has said.

Whatever the form of capital, be it from insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors or elsewhere, one good year of performance is not going to be enough to entice a significant volume of capital into the reinsurance industry, according to executives at Bermuda-based Lancashire Holdings.

The rebuilding cost of the devastating wildfire in Hawaii that has burned the historic town of Lahaina has been estimated at $5.52 billion, with now 2,207 structures reported to have been destroyed.

In the ongoing court case that sees insurance and reinsurance broking giant Aon, via its White Rock SAC vehicle, pursuing beleaguered insurtech Vesttoo for reparations after letters of credit (LOCs) backing collateralized reinsurance deals were alleged to be fraudulent or forged, the broker is seeking a $136.7 million return of collateral.

By the end of the first-half of 2023, global re/insurer QBE had received $1.144 billion of reinsurance recoveries, up a significant 174% on the prior year period.

A new statement from the incoming interim CEO of Vesttoo, Ami Barlev, claims that the company has now learned that “a number of factors, external to the company, led directly to the current crisis, including the involvement of certain foreign banks and financial institutions.”

Insurance and reinsurance broking giant Aon is pursuing beleaguered insurtech Vesttoo through a New York Court via its White Rock Insurance (SAC) Ltd. segregated account and transformer structure, and has so far secured a temporary restraining order to freeze Vesttoo’s funds.

In analysing US insurer filings for their use of letters of credit (LOCs) specifically from one of the banks at the centre of the Vesttoo linked collateral fraud story, ALIRT Insurance Research found more than $1.3 billion of them, but said it is hard to tell how much of that is associated with Vesttoo, or […]