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Despite devastating wildfires in California in the first quarter of 2025, the U.S. property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry expects full-year 2025 net combined ratios (NCR) to be the lowest in more than a decade, as the Atlantic hurricane season does not make landfall in the United States. The findings are based on Insurance Economics…

Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd., an international specialty insurance and reinsurance group, has announced the appointment of Michelle Li as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of its London-based underwriting platform, Hamilton Global Specialty. In her new role, Lee will be based in London and work closely with Hamilton Global Specialty CEO Alex Baker. She will report to…

Skyward Group has expanded Skyward Specialty’s life sciences insurance solutions with Apollo’s Lloyd’s Syndicate 1969, providing enhanced cross-border placements for life sciences companies incorporated in the United States and operating internationally. sky group is a unified specialty insurance organization whose operating businesses include property and casualty specialty insurance company Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc. and…

Lloyds insurance company Argenta has appointed Alexandra Hayes as head of group strategy and execution/chief of staff and Sweta Tzimopoulos as chief distribution officer. The two appointments are designed to strengthen the insurer’s leadership team and reflect its focus on strategic growth. Hayes joins Argenta in January 2026 and Tzimopoulos will join later in 2026,…

AXA XL, the property and casualty division of global insurance company AXA Group, has announced the appointment of Samantha Hazlewood as Head of AXA Group Partnerships and Strategic Account Management at AXA XL, effective February 1, 2026. In her new role, Hazlewood will oversee relationships with AXA’s most strategic clients globally, promoting partnerships across the…

As the reinsurance market faces increased pressure in 2026, Capgemini’s Luca Russignan says the gap between performers and mere experimenters is widening, as the double-edged nature of AI rewards true trailblazers who are redesigning processes around the technology rather than simply adopting it. In a New Year’s discussion with Reinsurance News, Russignan, global head of…

Trawick International Limited, a member of Trawick Holdings, a privately owned specialist insurance group offering travel and niche insurance products globally, has confirmed the launch of a Lloyds registered brokerage within the group. The brokerage was established in partnership with sister company Greenlight Insurance Services Ltd, with both companies operating under the Trawick Holdings umbrella….

Water risk intelligence company Fathom has launched FathomDEM+, a global terrain dataset designed to provide a single, unified and independent baseline view of global terrain to enhance risk analysis. The program is designed to support the next generation of Fathom global flood maps, starting with the Fathom Updated Global Flood Map. It also serves as…

Rachel Turk, head of market performance at Lloyd’s of London, classifies the current reinsurance market as one that is softening but not weak, noting that it is on a knife’s edge and could reverse after a major loss event. Speaking at Fitch Ratings’ 2026 Insurance Insights event in London on January 22, Turk stressed that…

Insurer RLI lowered 2026 catastrophe reinsurance limits by $150 million at renewal time in January, citing lower exposure and continued weak conditions in what it described as a “buyer’s market” for real estate. RLI Corp. renewed about two-thirds of its annual reinsurance spending on Jan. 1, with catastrophe program rates reduced by 15% to 20%…