Reinsurance News

US-headquartered insurance holding company W. R. Berkley Corporation has continued to expand its use of its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar through 2025, with written premiums ceded to the sidecar rising to $494 million, the highest level the company has recorded to date.

BirdsEyeView, the European Space Agency-backed insurtech specialising in natural catastrophe modelling and exposure management, has announced the launch of its enhanced Catastrophic Exposure and Risk Analytics platform, CERA®.

A new study authored by Hang Gao, et al published in The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance has highlighted how basis risk is a manageable and structural feature of parametric triggers, decoupling it from financial impacts on insurers or policyholders to focus on its fundamental properties.

One of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sponsored by financial guarantee and municipal bond specialist Build America Mutual Assurance Company has had its ratings revised to Positive from Stable by Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), while another two remain at Stable.

Hannover Re continued to grow the volumes of its activities as a key insurance-linked securities (ILS) market facilitator in 2025, with securitised reinsurance volumes expanding and collateral furnished for fronted ILS arrangements growing as well.

Signal Iduna Reinsurance Ltd. (SI Re), the Swiss based reinsurance company that also invests in insurance-linked securities (ILS) for their diversification and return effects, has strengthened its capabilities with the hire of Sebastian Schulz as an ILS Analyst.

Price Forbes Capital Markets, the investment banking and ILS capital raising unit of reinsurance broker Price Forbes Re, has hired Mike Ward from Artex Risk Solutions as Vice President of its Capital Markets team in Bermuda.

Nascent Re Ltd. a licensed reinsurance transformer owned and operated by Bermuda-based Nascent Group, has completed its first issuance of listed insurance-linked securities, as a €10 million tranche of OFS Re Series 2026-001 preferred shares have been admitted to the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX).

Severe convective storm (SCS) outbreaks across parts of the United States this week are anticipated to drive insurance market losses in the low to mid-single-digit range, according to initial analysis from reinsurance brokers Gallagher Re and Aon.

The Government of Jamaica has announced its intention to renew its Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF-SPC) parametric risk transfer coverage in May 2026. However, there has been no confirmation regarding the potential for any renewal of its World Bank-facilitated catastrophe bond.