Insurance linked securities news, ILS news

Markel Corporation has requested the dismissal of the lawsuit filed against its Markel CATCo Investment Management subsidiary, claiming that the suit by Tony Belisle fails to state a reasonable claim against the firm.

BMS Capital Advisory, Inc., the broker-dealer, investment banking, ILS and capital markets arm of insurance and reinsurance brokerage BMS, has announced the hiring of Chris DeMuth as a senior vice president, picking him up from his last role at JLT Capital Markets.

The catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to suffer loss creep from a number of prior year catastrophe events, which manifested again in the first-quarter in secondary marks and expected losses.

We’re excited to reveal the second wave of speakers who will be joining us at ILS Asia 2019, our fourth conference held in Singapore. Tickets are available now for this insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference.

Eclipse Re Ltd., the special purpose insurer and segregated accounts company that had been launched originally by Horseshoe Group and Rewire Securities LLC has issued its first tranche of private catastrophe bond notes for 2019, Eclipse Re Ltd. (Series 2019-01A).

Voussoir Re Ltd. is a new collateralized reinsurance sidecar style vehicle which we understand to have been established by Arch Capital as a new third-party capital vehicle.

The enactment of a bill designed to reform the assignment of benefits (AOB) system in the state of Florida has the potential to reduce homeowners insurance rate need by an average of 15% and in some cases in the south of the state as much as almost 18%.

The countries and territories of the Western Balkans region are highly vulnerable to the majority of natural catastrophe events, underlining the need for increased awareness of the capabilities of various sources of risk financing, including the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) space.

Specialist non-life insurance and reinsurance legacy investor and program manager Randall & Quilter (R&Q) Investment Holdings is says third-party capital structured through sidecar like arrangements could help it to finance larger run-off deals.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 28th April 2019, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.