28 April 2025
Global insured losses from natural disasters were the second highest on record for the first quarter, according to Aon, with an estimated $US53 billion ($83.04 billion) paid out by insurers...
28 April 2025
Unmodelled extreme weather risks are a “defining challenge” for renewable energy markets, according to sector underwriter GCube Insurance...
28 April 2025
Bernhard Kaufmann has been appointed group chief risk officer at Swiss Re, replacing the retiring Patrick Raaflaub from October...
28 April 2025
Broker WTW says it has made a “solid” start to the year after earnings rose in the first quarter...
28 April 2025
Chubb’s first quarter net income fell 37.9% to $US1.3 billion ($2 billion) as the California wildfires raised catastrophe losses, while the company CEO has criticised “uncertainty and confusion” created by the US government’s approach to trade...
28 April 2025
First-quarter revenue at Marsh McLennan rose 9% to $US7.1 billion ($11.1 billion)...
28 April 2025
Broker Aon’s key commercial risk solutions business performed well in the first quarter, with revenue up 11% to $US2.002 billion ($3.13 billion) from a year earlier...
14 April 2025
Global reinsurers are well placed to manage financial market volatility triggered by US tariff announcements and reciprocal actions, S&P Global Ratings says...
14 April 2025
Allianz has warned businesses to “move fast to protect your people and property” as political violence, strikes, riots and civil commotion rise around the world...
14 April 2025
Low uptake of cyber cover suggests insurers must do more to show businesses the product is essential, Gallagher Re says...
14 April 2025
Global asset management company GAM has appointed Swiss Re as co-investment manager for its insurance-linked securities fund range...
07 April 2025
Reinsurance renewals for April have shown a continuation of January trends and point to favourable conditions for the mid-year period, Aon says...
07 April 2025
US commercial and personal lines rates increased in the first quarter, according to analyst MarketScout...
07 April 2025
Brigitte Trafford has joined Howden as group chief corporate affairs officer – a newly created role...
07 April 2025
Kay Swinburne is the new independent chair of the Association of British Insurers...
31 March 2025
Damage assessments are continuing after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar on Friday destroyed local buildings and caused a high-rise tower under construction in Bangkok to collapse...
31 March 2025
Japan’s MS&AD will merge its Mitsui Sumitomo and Aioi Nissay Dowa insurance businesses to create a company with the biggest share of the country’s non-life market...
31 March 2025
Howden Re says there is heightened pressure to address the natural catastrophe protection gap as risks and economic losses increase...
31 March 2025
US-based WR Berkley says Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance plans to acquire a 15% stake in the company...
24 March 2025
Rate adequacy will be a dominant theme this year but talk of “inevitable cycle turns” is simplistic, Lloyd’s chief of markets Patrick Tiernan told an annual results briefing