Citizens

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation once again benefited from meaningful ILS manager and capital markets support for its traditional reinsurance needs in 2026, with these third-party capital investors taking 52% of the placement, while Nephila Capital was the largest single participant.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has now finalised its reinsurance risk transfer tower of almost $2.82 billion for 2026, securing $691 million of traditional reinsurance at the June 1 renewals, to add to its $2.125 billion of outstanding catastrophe bond protection.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is planning to call its $1.1 billion of Everglades Re II Ltd. (Series 2024-1) catastrophe bonds in advance of its renewal, to enable it to take advantage of current market conditions and may sponsor issuance of around $600 million of new cat bonds this year to make a saving on […]

Florida’s property insurer of last resort Citizens Property Insurance Corporation began 2026 with 67% less exposure, while the firm also projects it will need $3 billion of traditional reinsurance and / or catastrophe bonds for the 2026 hurricane season.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is one of the first catastrophe bond sponsors to opt to use a variable reset facility with its Everglades Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) catastrophe bond, by choosing to lower the attachment point.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance is actively talking to insurance-linked securities (ILS) and capital markets investors as it tests their appetite for another catastrophe bond to replace its maturing Everglades Re deal, Artemis understands.

As we wrote recently here, Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has entered the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season in the best financial shape of its history, thanks largely to the increased amount of private risk transfer it now has in place due to catastrophe bonds and cheaper reinsurance purchases, due to catastrophe reinsurance rate decreases.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation will begin the 2013 Hurricane Season in the best financial shape ever, according to recent comments made by CEO Barry Gilway. The CEO, of the insurer of last resort for many of Florida’s most hurricane exposed properties, cites the contribution that private reinsurance alongside the issuance of catastrophe bonds have […]

The latest catastrophe bond from Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance completed at the end of last week, bringing the amount of risk transfer Citizens benefits from in the cat bond market to $1 billion between its two transactions completed to date. After being clearly pleased with the drop in pricing the Everglades Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) transaction […]

The Board of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance, the state backed property insurer of last resort, has just approved its reinsurance and risk transfer plans for 2013 including the second catastrophe bond from the insurer, Everglades Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1). The Board made it clear just how much they appreciate the risk transfer from the capital […]