Casualty insurance-linked securities news

Praedicat, a leading casualty catastrophe risk modelling company, has secured a $6 million Series AA round of investment, from sources including existing investor catastrophe risk modelling specialist Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) and Jacques Dubois.

In an interview with Artemis, Jim Robinson of MultiStrat Advisors Inc. recently discussed the novel casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) transaction the firm arranged for HSCM Bermuda, the ILS, reinsurance and transportation finance investment firm established by ex-Goldman Sachs structured finance head Michael Millette.

Insurance and reinsurance specialist investment manager Hudson Structured Capital Management is allocating to a novel third-party liability, or casualty risk, transaction that has been arranged by MultiStrat Advisors Ltd., enabling it to access the returns of workers’ compensation insurance risks.

Risk modelling firm AIR Worldwide will benefit from liability and casualty risk modelling abilities after parent company Verisk Analytics announced the acquisition of Arium, an independent company focused on liability risk modeling and decision support.

Assicurazioni Generali sees the successful acquisition of €255 million of fully collateralised reinsurance protection from the capital markets, through the recent Horse Capital I DAC motor third-party liability loss ratio ILS, as an example of capital markets support for its strategic optimisation of its capital allocation.

Capital market investors were “well placed” to support the recent Horse Capital I DAC motor third-party liability loss ratio ILS, catastrophe bond like transaction, and its successful completion could open the ILS market to new opportunities, according to Bill Dubinsky of WCMA.

Assicurazioni Generali will secure an upsized €255 million (approx US$266m) of fully collateralised reinsurance cover for motor third-party liability loss ratio deterioration, after its innovative Horse Capital I DAC ILS or catastrophe bond like transaction grew by 42% at pricing.

European insurance giant Assicurazioni Generali is set to upsize its innovative motor third-party liability ILS deal Horse Capital I DAC, as the targeted transaction size has risen from €180m at launch to a new target of between €210m to €240m (US$255m).

The catastrophe bond and ILS market looks set to see a very rare casualty cat bond type transaction as European insurance giant Assicurazioni Generali seeks a €180m or larger source of motor third-party liability reinsurance protection through a Horse Capital I DAC securitisation.

The launch of Oortfolio™, a liability insurance risk modeling platform from Praedicat, could stimulate innovation in liability insurance risk transfer, such as attracting new capital by enabling it to better quantify liability exposures and even liability catastrophe bonds.