personal Insurance

AXIS expects up to $90m winter storm loss, based on industry hit up to $14bn

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda-based, globally-active insurance and reinsurance company, has pre-announced an expectation that it will shoulder up to $90,.. Read More

Louisiana Citizens returns to Bermuda for $125m Pelican IV Re 2021 cat bond

Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the non-profit residential and commercial property insurer for those who cannot access private market insurance,.. Read More

Vantage Risk targets first catastrophe bond with $150m Vista Re

Vantage Risk, the insurance and reinsurance start-up launched by industry veterans Greg Hendrick and Dinos Iordanou, is in the market,.. Read More

CATCo retro fund benefits from further $19.2m trapped capital release

The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., the stock exchange listed retrocession focused strategy managed by Markel CATCo and in run-off,.. Read More

RenRe expects $180m winter storm Uri loss, anticipates Q1 net loss

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda headquartered reinsurer and third-party reinsurance capital manager, has pre-announced an expectation that losses from winter storm Uri,.. Read More

California wildfire season could be extreme in 2021, warn experts

Scientists, meteorologists and other experts with a view on wildfire related conditions in the state of California are warning of,.. Read More

Can Insurance Companies Avoid Appraisal by Alleging the Amount Claimed is Fraudulent?

The new property insurance tactic to avoid payment and thereby delay or deny appraisal is to claim that the policyholder,.. Read More

Learn why parametrics can reduce the "basis risk" of indemnity: Webcast

In some situations, parametric insurance and risk transfer arrangements can benefit the protection buyer by providing coverage that wouldn’t have,.. Read More

Everest Re secures $650m Kilimanjaro III cat bond at reduced pricing

Everest Re, the globally active insurance and reinsurance company, has now finalised the pricing on the latest $650 million of,.. Read More

EC extends Aon Willis Towers Watson merger deadline again

Having restarted the clock and extended the deadline for a decision on the process to approve or deny the proposed,.. Read More

Nationwide's aggregate rises on winter storms, Caelus cat bond losses possible

The catastrophe bond market looks set to face some additional losses under Caelus Re catastrophe bonds sponsored by US primary,.. Read More

On average, successful 144A cat bonds upsized by 63% in Q1 2021

Strong investor appetite enabled sponsors of traditional 144A catastrophe bond transactions to upsize target levels of reinsurance protection during the,.. Read More