Reinsurance renewals news and articles. Discussing the trajectory of reinsurance pricing and rates, as well as the flow of reinsurance capital at key market renewal seasons where many reinsurance programs are renewed and new reinsurance and retrocession capital and capacity is deployed.
The reinsurance cycle follows a number of key renewal seasons and the news and analysis below covers these important reinsurance market renewals.
The key reinsurance renewal periods are at January 1st, April 1st, June 1st and July 1st.
The January renewals have a particular focus on European programs, Asia Pacific (ex. Japan), casualty and specialty risks. The mid-year reinsurance renewals see a particular focus on U.S. property catastrophe reinsurance renewals, with Florida a particular focus in June. Japanese reinsurance program renewals are a major focus at April 1st.
Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation had originally been seeking more catastrophe bond backed reinsurance for 2022, specifically to fill out layers of its Coastal Account reinsurance tower, but pricing feedback from investors caused the insurer to change plans and these cat bond tranches never made it to market.
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A new report from Moody’s paints a gloomy picture of rising combined ratios and elevated loss costs, because of the influence of rising inflation, soaring construction costs and more expensive labour rates, all of which reinforce the need for reinsurance and ILS pricing to cover these factors.
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The CFO of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation said today that the reinsurance risk transfer markets are in “disarray”, meaning the insurer won’t be able to buy its targeted program within budget with the June renewals fast-approaching.
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For 2022, the staff of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation are seeking approval to buy roughly $3.64 billion of new risk transfer, across traditional reinsurance and catastrophe bonds, which added to still in-force cat bonds from prior years will take the Citizens program to roughly $4.7 billion for the coming hurricane season.
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Firm order terms (FOT’s) for the 2022 traditional reinsurance renewal for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) suggest an increase of roughly 29% in rate-on-line (RoL), which translates into a spend higher than budgeted, but that is aligned with market conditions and TWIA’s growing program.
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The Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis expects the special session of the legislature will deliver “really significant reforms” to Florida’s property insurance sector, that he believes can stabilise the marketplace there.
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Having previously warned that the Florida insurance market has spent the last 30 years kicking the can of its problems down the road, a road that is now running out, ALIRT analysis now suggests the market is at a “flash point” moment, where it risks reinsurance capital pulling-back even more significantly.
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Florida’s lawmakers are set to focus on affordability of property insurance for citizens of the state at the upcoming Special Session, with tackling fraud and abuse of assignment of benefits (AOB) both key areas to reform, according to the states CFO Jimmy Patronis.
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As the Florida market continues to grapple with its challenges, even with the promise of some legislative change being on the horizon through the upcoming Special Session, still carriers are pushing hard for steep rate rises in order to restore profitability.
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The Florida property insurance market crisis that has unfolded through recent years won’t be fixed by minor reforms to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF), according to Demotech President and Co-Founder Joseph Petrelli.
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