Reinsurance News

Descartes Underwriting, the parametric risk transfer specialist, has announced the launch of a new fully customisable Flood-at-Location parametric flood insurance product for U.S. commercial customers.

The CEO of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has hailed the ongoing recovery of Florida’s property insurance market, explaining that the insurers policy count now stands some 45% lower than its most recent peak and exposure down 43% in just one year, while market conditions suggest this trend will continue.

The Government of Grenada has renewed its annual parametric insurance coverage with the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC) for the 2025/2026 policy year, for a total cost of roughly US$1.828 million, plus applicable fees.

France-headquartered global re/insurer AXA has announced that its ceded reinsurance teams from across the entire Group, including AXA XL are coming together under the leadership of Guy Van Hecke, as the firm looks to align strategies and recognise synergies in its reinsurance buying.

Across the entire roughly $4.49 billion reinsurance risk transfer tower of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation the capital markets have taken their largest share proportionally in 2025, with around 87% of the total backed by catastrophe bonds, collateralized reinsurance markets and ILS fund managers.

Insurance solutions provider Orion180 has increased its reinsurance tower by 31% year-over-year, reaching $845 million of limit for the 2025 hurricane season. The completed placement includes both excess-of-loss (XOL) and net quota share agreements, reflecting the company’s continued growth in high-risk, catastrophe-exposed markets.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has confirmed that it has successfully completed its reinsurance renewal for the 2025 hurricane season, securing the targeted traditional and catastrophe bond coverage for less than the budget that had been set.

Kingstone Companies, the New York and northeast US focused insurance group, has increased its catastrophe reinsurance limit by 57% at its renewal, securing a $440 million tower for 2025, with its recently completed debut 1886 Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond assisting in this expansion of core protection.

While the reinsurance market and its pricing would be expected to re-firm after any large hurricane losses suffered during the 2025 season, it is not expected to drive a severe market hardening as was seen after 2022, according to analysts at investment bank Jefferies.

As per Verisk’s latest Quarterly Property Report, claims volume in the U.S. and Canada continued to decline in the first quarter of 2025, reaching a five-year low, even amid significant weather events across several regions.