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#1 Markel Insurance Selling Reinsurance Renewal Rights to Nationwide
Jul 31 2025 // Markel Insurance is running off its global reinsurance business and selling renewal rights to the $1.2 billion book to Nationwide, according to Markel Group and Nationwide in separate announcements on Wednesday. Neither...
#2 Senator Schiff Brings Back Idea of Federal Reinsurance Program
Aug 14 2025 // Sen. Adam Schiff recently reintroduced his Incorporating National Support for Unprecedented Risks and Emergencies (INSURE) Act to create a federal catastrophic reinsurance program. The insurance industry promptly...
#3 Reinsurers Have Made Major Structural Changes to Improve Profits. Will Discipline Last?
Aug 22 2025 // Reinsurance underwriting remains disciplined, with terms and conditions and attachment points largely intact, despite signs of rate moderation, according to an AM Best market segment report. During the January 2023...
#4 Viewpoint: Why Reinsurance Industry Often Struggles to Manage Market Cycles
Aug 28 2025 // “We must maintain underwriting discipline.” This phrase is arguably the most repeated mantra in the reinsurance industry over the past two years, and you will struggle to find anyone in the market who would...
#5 Swiss Re Tops List of Largest Reinsurers on Its Shift to IFRS-17 Accounting: AM Best
Aug 18 2025 // Swiss Re tops the list of the world’s 50 largest reinsurers as a result of its adoption of the IFRS-17 accounting standards, which also led to a shuffle among the top-tier reinsurers, according to AM Best. Swiss Re...
#6 US Property/Catastrophe Reinsurance Rates Likely to Stabilize During Midyear Renewals
Apr 7 2025 // Reinsurance renewal rates continued dropping during January renewals, but U.S. property/catastrophe reinsurance pricing is likely to stabilize during the coming midyear renewals, according to a report from Moody’s...
#7 Experts Predict Impacts of $25B+ Milton Hit to Insurers, Reinsurers
Oct 9 2024 // A wide cone of uncertainty surrounds insurance experts’ pre-landfall predictions about the state of the industry that will prevail in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, with most viewing it as a $20 billion-plus loss...
#8 Property-Catastrophe Reinsurance Rates Will Stop Dropping Post Wildfires: Execs
Feb 3 2025 // RenaissanceRe expects to incur about $750 million in losses from the January 2025 California wildfires—and anticipates that industrywide impacts should halt the drop in property-catastrophe reinsurance prices observed at...
#9 Fitch Revises Global Reinsurance Sector Outlook to ‘Deteriorating’ on Rising Competition
Sep 3 2025 // Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook for the global reinsurance sector to “deteriorating” for 2026 from “neutral” for 2025, reflecting its expectation that underlying operational and business...
#10 Will California’s FAIR Plan Have Enough Cash for Its Wildfire Claims?
Jan 16 2025 // There has been some question about whether California’s insurer of last resort – the FAIR Plan – has enough cash on hand to pay for its share of wildfire claims. As surplus is inadequate and reinsurance has a...
#11 Aon Reports 6% Organic Revenue Growth, Boosted by Commercial, Reinsurance Lines
Jul 29 2025 // Insurance broker Aon reported second quarter revenue of $4.2 billion, an 11% increase from $3.8 billion in Q2 2024. Aon said its Q2 revenue reflected 6% organic revenue growth (versus 5% in Q2 2024), along with the...
#12 Update: Re/Insurer Losses From LA Wildfires Expected to Be Significant but Manageable
Jan 10 2025 // Insurers are facing significant losses from the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires — given the high value of homes and businesses in the affected communities. However, those losses are likely to be manageable for...
#13 Markel Insurance Completes Sale of Reinsurance Renewal Rights to Nationwide
Aug 19 2025 // Global specialty insurer Markel Insurance reported that it has completed the sale of the renewal rights for its $1.2 billion global reinsurance business to Nationwide. This transaction was previously announced on July 30...
#14 A Los Angeles Actuary on Lessons From the Palisades Fire
Jan 16 2025 // I watched as the skies over my home in Los Angeles turned an apocalyptic orange on January 7, 2025, as wildfires raged across the state. Among the most devastating, the Palisades Fire consumed thousands of acres, leaving a...
#15 Predictive Model Delivers Insights as Insurers, Reinsurers Brace for More Civil Unrest
Oct 9 2024 // Executive Summary: Insurers and reinsurers are responding to heightened risks of civil unrest with better calculations of their probable maximum losses, careful risk pricing, clear contractual wordings, and by using new...
#16 Third Point’s Dan Loeb Wins Vote to Turn London-Listed Fund Into Reinsurer
Aug 15 2025 // Dan Loeb has won a vote to turn his UK investment trust into a life and annuity reinsurance company, defying a fierce backlash from some shareholders. A majority of investors backed a plan for London-listed Third Point...
#17 Casualty Reinsurance Still Attractive: Arch Capital CEO
Feb 19 2025 // While writing primary casualty insurance is more appealing than writing casualty reinsurance, the chief executive of Arch Capital said casualty reinsurance business remains attractive for his company. Speaking during an...
#18 PE Firm B.P. Marsh Invests in New Collateralized Reinsurer to Support Growth of XPT
Aug 15 2025 // B.P. Marsh & Partners Plc, the specialist private equity investor, announced it is investing in a new collateralized reinsurer that aims to support growth in its long-time investee company XPT Group, the U.S. wholesale...
#19 Florida Citizens ‘Going Naked’ on Reinsurance Below Cat Fund Layer
May 2 2025 // Reinsurance prices have dropped since Florida’s 2022-2023 litigation reform measures were enacted, but the biggest rate reductions are mostly for reinsurance above what the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund...
#20 AIG’s Zaffino Talks More on Insurer-Reinsurer Balance as $200B Cat Year May Loom
Feb 13 2025 // American International Group CEO Peter Zaffino used the insurer’s fourth quarter earnings call to again talk about reinsurance attachments points, throwing in the possibility 2025 could be the year for $200 billion...
