Generali Group CEO, Philippe Donnet, has suggested that the firm’s recent acquisitions have further strengthened its position as a leading European insurer while also expanding its Asset Management business globally.

Global specialty underwriter and provider of re/insurance solutions, AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, has appointed Mike Cueman to the newly created role as Head of Construction, for its United States market, reporting to Steve Cross, Global Head of Construction and Michael McKenna, Head of North America via a matrixed structure

Westfield Specialty, a US property & casualty insurer, has formed a team to lead its entry into international property direct and facultative (D&F) insurance, which includes the hire of Richard Wood from Lancashire and Chris Prior from Inigo.

Following the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, Berenberg, the German investment bank and equity research firm, emphasises that reinsurance brokers are pushing for an orderly transfer of margins from reinsurers to cedants.

Tokio Marine GX (TMGX), a specialist insurer evolving from renewables underwriter GCube Insurance, has issued a stark warning about a growing “protection gap” in the insurance market that threatens the success of the global green transition.

MSIG USA, a provider of specialty commercial insurance, has appointed Erika Shalette as General Counsel, reporting to Kent Ziegler, the firm’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer.

SCOR has reported that the impact on its net technical results from the severe drought on the harvest in the southern part of Brazil “should be just below €200m” for H1 2022.