insurance

Global insurance and reinsurance group Everest Re has pre-announced an expectation of a $215 million catastrophe loss hit and a further $50 million hit from its crop reinsurance book in the fourth-quarter of 2019.

The Australian bushfire disaster has caused some capital to be trapped within the listed retrocessional reinsurance investment fund strategy operated by Markel CATCo, while continued loss creep from hurricane Irma also hit exposed positions at the end of 2019.

Bermuda headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance group Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited has announced the hiring of Andrew Kudera as Executive Vice President and the firms new Group Chief Actuary.

Australian primary insurance giant Suncorp has referred to an “unprecedented” start to the season for catastrophe losses this morning, saying that it now expects to make recoveries across its reinsurance program, including its main program, drop-downs and aggregate reinsurance including perhaps its stop-loss.

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the Caribbean yesterday in the afternoon local time, swaying buildings as far away as Miami, Florida and causing some localised damage to countries including the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Cuba.

Global life, longevity and morbidity reinsurance firm Pacific Life Re has completed the second largest UK longevity swap transaction on record, taking on UK £10 billion of longevity risk from Lloyd’s Banking Group pension funds.

Reports from and sources in Japan suggest demand surge is set to be an issue with claims from typhoon Hagibis, as a lack of claims professionals, assessors and loss adjusters has been noted to be slowing the process of insurance claims filing and is expected to inflate claims amounts.

The quantum of an eventual reinsurance market loss from the Australian bushfire disaster remains highly uncertain, as the specific terms and conditions defining an event on individual reinsurance programs will matter, according to A.M. Best.

Fidelis Insurance, the specialty insurance and reinsurance firm launched by Richard Brindle, has announced a new senior hire as it continues to build its expertise in outwards reinsurance and especially quota shares.

Australian primary insurance giant IAG is set to make a claim under its calendar year 2020 main catastrophe reinsurance program that provides it with per-occurrence protection for the recent hailstorm events, signalling that the gross loss impact to this one insurer will surpass A$250 million.