US-headquartered insurance holding firm, W. R. Berkley Corporation, reported higher premiums being ceded to its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar for both the second-quarter and first-half...
Given that both the intensity and frequency of severe convective storm (SCS) events continue to steadily rise, Descartes Underwriting has indicated that the use of highly-responsive parametric...
PERILS, a Zurich-based catastrophe insurance data provider, has disclosed a reduced loss estimate for extratropical windstorm Nils, also known as Ulrike, of EUR 695 million, which affected the...
CatIQ, the independent Toronto-based catastrophe insurance data provider and subsidiary of PERILS, has released its second industry loss estimate for the severe thunderstorm event that struck parts...
Pillar Capital Management Limited, the Bermuda-based specialist collateralized reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has appointed Jessica Ferreira as an Actuary....
Artemis has learned that Beazley, the London headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has partnered with specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager Integral ILS Ltd....
Reinsurance giant Munich Re has reclaimed its spot at the top of AM Best’s ranking of the world’s largest reinsurers for companies that report under IFRS 17, while the specialist Lloyd’s marketplace...
According to reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, year-to-date industry losses from US severe convective storms in 2026 have accelerated and climbed above $35 billion, as the peril’s quieter start to the...
The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) continued to grow its market share of catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS) in the second-quarter of 2026, ending the period with a...
Tropical storm Lala in the central Pacific could make the first United States hurricane landfall of 2026 this weekend, as the storm is forecast to intensify and has the Big Island of Hawaii in its...