Category: Financial

April 25, 2024

Insurance industry losses from US severe weather events have already surpassed $10 billion for this year, with the toll for many events still being calculated. However, forecasts for the coming days and weeks could wind up taking the toll on […]

April 25, 2024

In what is perhaps a reflection of an insurance and reinsurance marketplace with more catastrophe risk capital available, broker Marsh has for the first time in a while cited a slowing level of rate increases for catastrophe exposed commercial property […]

April 24, 2024

Global commercial insurance rates increased by 1% on average in the first quarter of 2024, compared with a 2% increase in Q4 2023, according to the Global Insurance Market Index published by Marsh, the insurance brokerage business of Marsh McLennan. […]

April 23, 2024

The General Insurance Association of Japan (GIAJ) has released new insurance claims data for the January 1st M7.5 earthquake that hit near the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, revealing that the claims paid total has risen by around 22% in […]

April 12, 2024

The cost of construction insurance in Florida is having developers second-guess their willingness to invest in the Sunshine State, while business leaders are growing concerned that higher insurance costs may slow Florida’s booming real estate sector. But these fears are […]

April 8, 2024

Investor inflows to the catastrophe bond market and other areas of insurance-linked securities (ILS) helped non-life alternative reinsurance capital rise by 11.5% to a new record high of $107 billion by the end of 2023, according to the latest data […]

April 8, 2024

Florida’s property insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, aims to secure reinsurance coverage of approximately $5.5 billion across a sliver and core layer, as part of its 2024 risk transfer program. As we wrote previously, Citizens projected at […]

April 4, 2024

The Government of Jamaica has returned to the catastrophe bond market as anticipated, with an initial target to secure at least $150 million in parametric named storm disaster insurance protection from the capital markets through this IBRD CAR Jamaica 2024 […]

April 2, 2024

American European Insurance Company is now seeking up to $125 million in named storm reinsurance protection for a coastal property book that is originated via MGA ShoreOne, through its debut Charles River Re Ltd. (Series 2024-1) catastrophe bond issuance. American […]

March 28, 2024

The insurance industry loss from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore after container ship Dali struck one of its support columns is estimated to be above the $1.5 billion of the Costa […]

March 27, 2024

Analysts at Moody’s Investors Service report that the four largest European reinsurers—Munich Re, Swiss Re, Hannover Re, and SCOR — achieved a combined earning of €10.2 billion in 2023, more than double their earnings in 2022, attributed to higher prices […]

March 25, 2024

According to global credit rating agency AM Best, the US property & casualty (P&C) industry recorded a $21.2 billion net underwriting loss in 2023, which slightly improves upon the $24.9 billion loss recorded in the prior year. These preliminary results […]

March 19, 2024

According to Artemis’ sources, activity in the industry-loss warranty (ILW) market has increased in the last few weeks, as reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets prepare for what is anticipated to be an active 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. As we’ve […]

March 15, 2024

Bermuda-headquartered Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd. has sponsored a new catastrophe bond, providing the firm with $200 million of retrocession from the capital markets to protect against U.S and territories named storm and North American earthquake risk. Easton Re Ltd. (Series […]

March 12, 2024

In their Q423 Market Insights Outlook for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Aon has highlighted how inflation continued to pressure pricing amidst generally moderate market conditions, although natural catastrophe exposed property and otherwise challenging risk types, including life […]

March 8, 2024

Guidewire, a platform provider for property and casualty re/insurers, has reported a net income (GAAP) of $9.7 million for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2024, a notable turnaround from the net loss of $9.2 million for the same […]

March 5, 2024

As per a report from analysts at BMO Capital Markets, a prominent reinsurance broking executive from Howden Tiger has suggested property-catastrophe reinsurance pricing power will fall 5-10% at mid-year contract renewals. The comments from the Howden Tiger executive were reportedly […]

February 29, 2024

Coverdash, which offers embedded commercial insurance technology with products for startups and small-to-medium businesses, announced $13.5 million in Series A funding. Coverdash’s technology package allows businesses such as payroll, payment, lending, human relations and website creators the ability to offer […]

February 22, 2024

Insurtech Root Inc. posted a net loss for the fourth quarter 2023 of $24 million and a net loss for the year of $147.4 million. Results were improvements from net losses of about $58.3 million for fourth quarter 2022 and […]

February 22, 2024

European re/insurer Zurich has made some adjustments to its reinsurance coverages for 2024 with the addition of a new $300 million top catastrophe layer to its Europe all perils tower, while the retention on its U.S. all perils tower has […]