Reinsurance News

A recent report published by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) highlights that allowing FAIR plans to sell catastrophe bonds can help provide U.S. states with another avenue to transfer risk, in addition to reinsurance.

Swiss Re has continued to grow across its natural catastrophe, property and specialty lines business through renewals this year so far, with 3% volume growth at the mid-year renewals, against a backdrop of continued price increases, but with rising loss assumptions, meaning a net price change of -2.4% at June and July.

In the latest twist in the long-running Vesttoo saga, where fraudulent collateral was found to be sitting behind reinsurance deals via letters of credit (LOC) that turned out to be forged, the creditors to the failed insurtech’s bankruptcy trust are now suing broker Aon and China Construction Bank, alleging fraudulent conduct and blaming them for […]

RenaissanceRe’s Capital Partners division saw its third-party investor capital under management surpass the $8 billion milestone for the first time ever, reaching $8.09 billion at June 30th 2025, which represents an increase of $940 million or 13% over the prior twelve months.

Beazley’s Group Chief Underwriting Officer Paul Bantick explained this morning how the company has prepared itself to respond to the evolving cyber threat landscape, laying out the importance of its reinsurance and cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) protection, while also providing an insight into its exposure to recent events.

In the latest annual report from Pool Re, the UK government-backed mutual terrorism reinsurance facility, its leadership explained how the third successful sponsorship of a terror catastrophe bond this year helps to distance the taxpayer from potential losses, while placing risk back into the private markets.

Insurance (and likely reinsurance) is considered to be a softening market by specialty player Beazley, but CEO Adrian Cox wrote today in his interim results statement that there is a fundamental difference between now and the prolonged soft market of 2010 to 2018.

CatIQ, the Toronto-based independent catastrophe insurance data provider and a subsidiary of PERILS, has estimated the one-year industry loss caused by the flooding related to the remnants of Hurricane Debby that affected Ontario and Quebec between August 9th and 10th, 2024, to be CAD $2.806 billion.

Driving home just how important the RenaissanceRe Capital Partners division has become to the global reinsurance firm, its CEO disclosed that the third-party and ILS capital management division has generated $700 million in fees for the business since the beginning of 2023.

Hannover Re is currently operating on the assumption that its retrocession needs for 2026 will result in a similar placement as we saw at the start of this year, unless pricing proves particularly compelling to purchase more, Sven Althoff, Member of the Executive Board for Property & Casualty (P&C) explained today.