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Reinsurer and Berkshire Hathaway unit Gen Re has promoted Amanda Granville to chief underwriter of national and multinational treaties and Marc Nerenberg to chief underwriter of regional and specialty lines. Granville began her career as an actuary in 2010, deepening her expertise within Munich Re’s specialty markets and global client casualty treaty teams. She joined…

Global reinsurer Munich Re has appointed Marco Petrovic as head of networks for Asia (excluding Greater China) and Johanna Roman as head of networks for Australia, Greater China and Africa. In his new role, Petrovic will relocate back to Asia in August to advance Munich Re’s network ambitions in this strategically important, high-potential region. He…

Tokio Marine GX (TMGX), the specialist green transition underwriting arm of Tokio Marine Group, has warned that the insurance market will need to continue to adapt to support the growing number of co-located hybrid renewable energy projects being developed around the world. In a new report, Colocation, colocation, colocation: Securing a flexible and clean energy…

Global reinsurance brokerage Gallagher Re has announced the appointment of Gianluca Panzanaro as Executive Director of its Italian operations, where he will play a key role in developing new relationships to strengthen the Italian team. In his new role, Panzanaro will focus on delivering tailor-made solutions as an exceptional service to the company’s existing Italian…

Aon plc, a global professional services firm specializing in risk, health and wealth solutions, has released its 2026 Global M&A and Transaction Solutions Claims Study, highlighting growing claims values, increasing notification activity and record recovery levels across the M&A insurance market. The report leverages Aon’s proprietary claims data to analyze nearly 2,000 claims and more…

Global reinsurer Munich Re has appointed Bob Algie as property, construction and engineering manager for Munich Re Australia’s Global Markets Specialty division, effective in the second half of 2026. In his new role, Algie will lead the establishment of the real estate, construction and engineering underwriting teams. He has over twenty years of experience in…

Direct-to-consumer home and auto insurance company Kin reported gross auto written premiums (GWP) of more than $6 million and a total of more than 250,000 home policies in force. Following a successful pilot in Texas in late 2025, Kin launched auto insurance in January 2026 for its home insurance customers in Florida and Texas. Within…

Integrated legal and commercial services provider DWF has announced the appointment of David Abbott as Managing Partner of its Insurance Services division, effective 1 May 2026. He succeeds Matthew Doughty, who has continued to lead the division on an interim basis since his appointment as Group CEO on 1 August 2025. Paul Jenks, who has…

A new report from Swiss Re suggests that while insurance coverage has largely kept pace with rapidly growing risks, the rising value of assets affected by natural disasters, and the resulting increase in absolute coverage gaps, continues to pose a resilience risk, highlighting the need for targeted adaptation projects to reduce expected losses, reduce physical…

Gallagher Re has announced the deployment of the Allphins risk management platform, becoming the first reinsurance broker to be licensed for the tool. The global broker has signed a multi-line agreement covering real estate, onshore energy and terrorism businesses for the platform. The deployment comes at a time of continued pressure on property catastrophe rates,…