Month: January 2026

A new report released by WTW Enterprise Willis with contributions from Willis Re shows that natural disasters will cause more than $100 billion in insured losses in 2025, marking the sixth consecutive year above this threshold and underscoring the continued severity and persistence of natural disaster risks even without a hurricane making landfall in the…

Dale Underwriting Partners, trading as Lloyd’s Syndicate 1729 of Dale Management Agency Limited, announces the appointment of Kevin Flack to the newly created role of Head of Portfolio Solutions. In this role, Flack will be based in London and will work closely with Dale’s leadership team to drive product portfolio development and enhance data-driven decision-making….

EigenRisk, Inc., an independent insurance technology company providing catastrophe risk management solutions, has entered into an agreement with EuroTempest to add its European storm forecast and event footprint to the EigenPrism® catastrophe risk management platform. EigenRisk helps reinsurers, MGAs, brokers and risk managers around the world manage catastrophe risk and drive growth while improving client…

QBE Re, the reinsurance arm of global insurance group QBE, has announced the appointment of Lian Phua as head of credit reinsurance. Based in New York, Phua will report to Salvatore Sama, Executive Director, QBE Re North America, and work closely with Shane Lawlor, Executive Director and Head of Professionals. In this newly created role,…

Lloyd’s specialist insurer and reinsurer MS Amlin will begin underwriting Middle East political risks in 2025 and plans to achieve greater growth in the region through a new reinsurance partnership with its parent Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company (MSI), Ltd. The new partnership is targeted at customers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and combines MSI’s…

Pikine, Senegal’s second largest city with more than 750,000 inhabitants, signed a parametric insurance contract against excess rainfall, structured by AXA Climate and underwritten by a consortium of Senegalese insurance companies AXA Sénégal, ASKIA Assurances and SUNU Assurances, and reinsured by Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) Ltd. The insurance will give Pikine 200 million CFA francs…

Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer AXIS Capital Holdings Limited’s combined ratio improved to 90.4% and 89.8% in the fourth quarter and full year of 2025, respectively, with catastrophe losses falling in both periods compared with the same period a year earlier and net favorable reserve development (PYD) higher in the prior year. AXIS Capital ended 2025…

Global insurance and reinsurance brokerage group Howden has appointed José Ignacio Lathrop as executive chairman of Howden Latin America (LatAm). In his new role, Lathrop will leverage his deep market expertise to guide and support Howden’s operations in Latin America, working closely with International Growth Markets Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sonia Caamaño to drive growth…

Arch Insurance International, part of Arch Capital Group and a multi-disciplinary specialist insurance solutions provider, has launched event cancellation cyber insurance. This new coverage is a cyber extension of the event cancellation policy and protects against events being canceled, abandoned, curtailed, interrupted, postponed or rescheduled due to unauthorized, malicious or criminal cyber conduct or computer…

Athene Holding Ltd., a life and retirement reinsurer largely owned by investor and private equity specialist Apollo Global Management Inc., has appointed Scott Campion as head of new markets. In his new role, Campion will focus on expanding Athene’s capabilities into new and adjacent areas. “There is a significant and growing unmet customer need for…