Florida Citizens news

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the state’s insurer of last resort, is currently projecting a need to budget for a larger tower of reinsurance and catastrophe bonds in 2025, with almost $4.5 billion of risk transfer being discussed.

The insurance and reinsurance businesses of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway suffered from hurricane losses in the third-quarter with Helene and are expecting up to $1.5 billion of additional losses from hurricane Milton in the fourth-quarter.

The depopulation of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Florida’s state-backed insurance company, continues apace and HCI Group, the Florida-focused insurance holding company, has assumed another more than 42,000 policies from the residual market carrier.

Collateralized capital markets backed reinsurance capacity and insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers have taken roughly two-thirds of Florida Citizens traditional reinsurance tower at the recent renewals, with Nephila Capital remaining the largest of those markets.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the state’s insurer of last resort, has completed its reinsurance renewals for 2024, but only purchased $3.564 billion of coverage across its traditional reinsurance and catastrophe bond arrangements, despite experiencing a softer market environment and lower pricing than a year ago.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation now only has catastrophe bonds in-force that occupy layers of its newly-combined single account reinsurance tower, after the last Everglades Re cat bond that provided coverage solely for the old Personal Lines Account has been redeemed.

According to Florida’s insurance market regulator, the first downward trend in property insurance rate filings for years is now being seen, as companies look to provide better prices to their consumers and at least some of the benefits of recent insurance reforms appear to be flowing to policyholders.

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the property insurer of last resort for the state of Florida, has now finalised its new catastrophe bond, in the end securing $1.1 billion of reinsurance from the Everglades Re II Ltd. (Series 2024-1) deal, so the size fell slightly short of its upper-target, Artemis has learned.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the state’s insurer of last resort that is currently in the catastrophe bond market with a new issuance that could approach $1.25 billion in size, expects that the rate-on-line across its reinsurance and risk transfer purchases for the 2024 hurricane season could be slightly higher than the prior year.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the insurer of last resort that is currently in the catastrophe bond market with a new issuance that could approach $1.25 billion in size, is set to increase its budget for reinsurance and risk transfer spend for 2024 to a maximum of $750 million.