WTW Sues Howden Again as Mega-Yacht Team Lift-Out Tests UK Restrictive Covenants
WTW returns to court against Howden over a five-person mega-yacht team lift-out as five global brokers test US covenants and the UK weighs a…
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MS Amlin’s 80% Profit Jump to £268m Shows Lloyd’s Discipline Outlasting the Rate Cycle
MS Amlin's 79.9% profit surge to £268m in FY2025 proves that Lloyd's syndicates holding underwriting discipline through the soft market are now delivering outsized…
Nigeria Ends Takaful-Conventional Coinsurance, Forcing Africa’s Largest Insurance Market to Choose Sides
Nigeria's NAICOM banned Takaful-conventional coinsurance effective January 2026, forcing structural market separation in Africa's largest insurance economy before domestic Retakaful infrastructure exists.
Markel and WTW Launch Nuclear Insurance Facility as 70-Reactor Build-Out Strains Specialist Capacity
Markel Insurance and Willis Towers Watson launched a dedicated nuclear insurance facility in May 2026, responding to a capacity crisis as 70 reactors under…
Prudential’s $389M Bharti Life Stake Marks India’s First Major Test of 100% FDI Ceiling
Prudential’s $389M acquisition of 75% stake in Bharti Life signals how global insurers are using India’s new 100% FDI ceiling to consolidate underinsured growth…
Howden India Reframes Parametric Climate Cover as a Core Workforce Benefit in APAC
Climate risk insurance for India's workforce is moving into the mainstream group benefits market as Howden packages parametric heat-stress and flood-income covers alongside health…
Generali Partners ECMWF to Build a Proprietary European Climate Risk Modelling Edge
Generali ECMWF climate modelling MoU integrates Copernicus data into underwriting, marking the start of a competitive data-moat race among European tier-1 insurers as climate…
TWIA Faces $1.23B Reinsurance Gap as Coastal Texas Private Market Shrinks
TWIA's 2026 reinsurance gap of $1.23 billion exposes the structural cost of private market withdrawal from coastal Texas, where the state pool now holds…
Swiss Re: 2026 Insured Cat Losses Tracking Toward Third-Worst Year on Record
2026 insured catastrophe losses are tracking toward the third-highest annual total on record, driven by secondary perils as reinsurance pricing softens 14.7% at January…
PERILS Lifts Windstorm Nils Loss Estimate 31% to €767M as European Reserves Fall Short
Windstorm Nils insured loss hits €767M after a 31% PERILS revision, exposing European P&C reserve gaps and reshaping 2027 reinsurance pricing.