French reinsurer SCOR forced one of its board members — Thierry Derez, the CEO of Covéa — to resign this week. It was the culmination of a boardroom squabble that began in September when SCOR rebuffed an 8.3-billion-euro ($9.3 billion) …
Commercial insurance buyers are facing upward pricing pressure across most lines of business in 2019, driven in part by escalating losses in the casualty insurance market, according to a report by Willis Towers Watson. The report, designed to be a …
Investment manager Neuberger Berman Group has acquired an asset manager and an affiliated reinsurer, which manage funds of more than $1 billion and focus on insurance-linked strategies. New York-based Cartesian Re and its Bermuda affiliate Iris Re were purchased from …
RenaissanceRe’s planned $1.5 billion purchase of Tokio Millennium Re (TMR) reinforces its strategy of being an independent reinsurer, according to Kevin O’Donnell, president and CEO of RenRe. “The TMR transaction will accelerate our strategy by providing us greater penetration into …
UK insurers and brokers have applauded the UK Treasury’s decision not to raise premium taxes, which currently has an annual price tag for each household of an average of £200 ($256.40), according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). The …
AFL Insurance Brokers, the London-based Lloyd’s broker, was looking for an MGA platform in the United States and found the perfect partner last month when it purchased Zodiac Insurance Services, which specializes in professional, entertainment and event insurance. It wasn’t …
AXA Mexico said the information and resources of its customers are safe and have not been affected by a cyber attack, which it discovered on Oct. 22. In a statement, AXA Mexico said that it had “identified anomalies in its …
The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is here to stay, said a new survey from Willis Towers Watson. End investors, ILS funds, and buyers – the three groups active in ILS – have predominantly weathered 2017 loss activity and accept that …
Liberty Mutual Insurance announced it is undertaking a strategic review of its London-based Pembroke Managing Agency Ltd., acquired through the lronshore purchase in May of 2017. The company has retained Evercore to serve as its adviser during the process. A …
UK insurers and businesses are urging the UK Treasury not to further penalize insurance customers by raising the insurance premium tax (IPT), which currently costs each household an average of £200 ($262) annually. The UK has the sixth highest IPT …
