reinsurance

Cincinnati Financial Corporation purchased an additional layer on its property catastrophe reinsurance treaty with a limit of $300 million at its July 1, 2025 renewal, increasing the total limit on its reinsurance tower from $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion.

SageSure, the specialist catastrophe-exposed property managing general underwriter (MGU), has sponsored its debut reinsurance sidecar transaction under Seawall Re Ltd., securing $50 million of third-party retro support from investors for its captive reinsurance vehicle Anchor Re.

Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has appointed property catastrophe retrocession and collateralized reinsurance specialist, Matthew Flynn, to the newly created role of Head of Global Clients for its Global Specialties business.

Improved pricing, greater competition, and a notable increase in capacity helped drive stronger retrocession and aggregate cover placements at the 2025 mid-year reinsurance renewals, according to broker Aon.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the largest municipal utility operating in the United States, has returned to the catastrophe bond market for its third time, seeking up to $150 million of wildfire protection from a 123 Lights Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) issuance, Artemis has learned.

Reinsurance firm Munich Re has estimated that global insured losses from natural catastrophe events reached US $80 billion in the first-half of 2025, a figure some 95% above the 10-year average.

Equity analysts from Autonomous have said in a new report that reinsurance capital appears disciplined as it eases into a soft market environment that may prove different this time, with capacity still being deployed at very attractive rates.

Mercury Insurance has now recovered $20.05 million from its Randolph Re (Series 2024-1) private catastrophe bond transaction, after losses from the January 2025 wildfires in California exceeded the attachment and eroded some of its principal, Artemis has learned.

Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has increased its insurance industry loss estimate for extratropical windstorm “Éowyn”, a storm that impacted the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Central Belt of Scotland in early 2025, adding 7% to take the estimate to EUR 747 million.

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