Florida Citizens news

The enactment of legislative reforms targeted at the insurance market in Florida has opened the runway for tens of billions in fresh capital to flow into the state from investors, John Seo, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Fermat Capital Management said at an event last week.

Florida-focused insurance holding entity HCI Group is aiming to raise close to $90 million through a public offering of its equity, with the target being to put the money raised to work to fund the continued assumption of policies from the state’s insurer of last resort, Florida Citizens.

Florida’s property insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, could increase its purchase of reinsurance and catastrophe bond backed risk transfer in 2024, with its new layer structure following the merging of its accounts suggesting as much as $5.5 billion could be purchased next year.

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) recently approved Texas-based property and casualty (P&C) insurer, Mainsail Insurance Company, as a new domestic insurer following legislative reforms earlier this year. At the same time as the approval of Mainsail Insurance, the second domestic firm approved to become an authorised P&C insurer in the State of Florida […]

Despite the news of a range of insurance carriers pulling-back to manage their catastrophe exposure in Florida, there remains an appetite to assume this risk and the state insurance regulator says that it is seeing greater interest and participation in the Florida Citizens Depopulation program in 2023.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment management specialist Nephila Capital has written just over $756 million of the $2.98 billion reinsurance placement by Florida Citizens at the renewals in 2023, but Berkshire Hathaway was the largest participant with a huge $1 billion line.

The fourth session of the day at our Artemis ILS NYC 2023 conference, held in New York on February 10th, saw industry leaders discussing the expansion of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class and what new or emerging opportunities are now available to investors.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has now secured $750 million of named storm reinsurance protection for the 2023 hurricane season with this dual-series issuance of Everglades Re II Ltd. (Series 2023-1 & 2023-2) notes, with the prices fixed within the initial guidance.

The Board of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation approved a slightly smaller budget for its reinsurance and capital market risk transfer purchases than expected yesterday, but market conditions are improved somewhat it seems and, while pricing is higher, the insurer of last resort is seeing positive momentum, especially with catastrophe bonds.

As it seeks to secure its reinsurance needs for the coming wind season in the most economic manner, Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has upsized its target for its latest catastrophe bond issuance for a second time, with now up to $775 million of protection sought from the dual-series issuance of Everglades Re II Ltd. […]