US P&C Logs Best Q1 Underwriting Margin in 25 Years — With a Soft-Market Warning Baked In
US P&C underwriting profit Q1 2026 hit a 25-year high with a combined ratio of 89.5, validating hard-market discipline — but premium declines across…
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Generali’s €2.2B Q1 2026 Operating Result Widens Europe’s Diversification Advantage
Generali Q1 2026: €2.2B operating result (+8.1%), €1.27B net profit, and €905B AUM signal Europe's diversification advantage as P&C markets soften globally.
Africa Re at Kigali CEO Forum: 80% of African Disaster Losses Go Uninsured
Africa Re: 80%+ of Africa's catastrophe losses are uninsured and $32 billion in economic damage went uncovered between 2019 and 2023, per Kigali CEO…
Willis and Global Parametrics Deliver Vietnam Coffee Parametric Payout, Signalling APAC Agricultural Risk Has Gone Mainstream
Parametric insurance Vietnam coffee milestone: Willis and Global Parametrics confirm two payouts to Central Highlands farmers — one on drought, one on Typhoon Kalmaegi…
SCOR Returns to Atlas Capital with $75M 2026-1 Issuance Tightly Priced on Retro Demand
SCOR locks $75M of three-year retrocession at a 6.00% spread, 125 basis points tighter than its prior tranche and a clear marker for June…
World Bank Issues $200M Jamaica Hurricane Bond to Anchor Caribbean Sovereign Risk Pool
Jamaica's third sovereign cat bond closes oversubscribed at a 6.75% coupon, signaling that Caribbean parametric structures have matured into a stable ILS asset class.
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…
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…
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…