• February 13 2025
  US insurers face billions in losses from Los Angeles wildfires

  Companies had retreated from California’s market before catastrophe struck in January

  
• January 31 2025
  LexPrivate equity

  Private equity has something troubled insurers want: cash Premium content

  For those recovering from past misfires, there is nothing like a big equity infusion

  
• January 28 2025
  US life insurer Brighthouse Financial seeks to sell itself

  Prominent private capital managers expected to bid for group with market value of $3bn

  
• January 27 2025
  Business InsightPatrick Jenkins

  Climate catastrophes call for state intervention on insurance

  More public-private partnerships are the only viable model for a decent society

  
• January 17 2025
  Insurance

  Reinsurers little exposed to LA fires after retreat from disaster risks

  Firms intended to backstop frontline insurers raised rates and increased recovery thresholds after losses on prior blazes

  
• January 9 2025
  FT series: the Uninsurable World

  Insurers brace for losses of up to $20bn from California wildfires

  JPMorgan analysts double estimates as blazes continue to rage

  
• January 2 2025
  Insurance

  Reinsurance costs fall as sector deploys record capital

  Decrease follows two years of bumper profits for providers

  
• December 19 2024
  Luigi Mangione

  Luigi Mangione faces federal murder charge in UnitedHealthcare killing

  Suspect in Brian Thompson’s slaying returns to New York where he now faces a second criminal case

  
• December 17 2024
  UnitedHealth Group Inc

  Luigi Mangione charged with first-degree murder in UnitedHealthcare killing

  Indictment alleges Brian Thompson’s slaying was ‘in furtherance of terrorism’

  
• December 6 2024
  UnitedHealth Group Inc

  Suspect in UnitedHealth shooting thought to have left New York

  Search by investigators for man alleged to have killed top US insurance executive stretches into third day

  
• October 10 2024
  Lex

  Hurricane Milton will test Florida’s creaking home insurance system Premium content

  It may be that a warming planet cannot be underwritten at any acceptable cost

  
• September 15 2024
  Munich Re

  Munich Re dismisses ‘nonsense’ calls for property reinsurance price cuts

  Chief executive says primary insurers could simply choose to buy less cover

  
• August 18 2024
  Insurance

  Hiscox chief says rising insurance prices a ‘stark signal’ on building risks

  Property insurer calls for better risk management as climate impact grows

  
• July 28 2024
  FT series: the Uninsurable World

  US home insurers suffer worst loss this century

  Natural disasters, inflation and population growth prove toxic mix for industry

  
• July 18 2024
  Lex

  Red states will suffer from homeowners’ insurance woes Premium content

  
• June 13 2024
  FT series: the Uninsurable World

  Swiss Re says industry failed to estimate impact of extreme weather

  Global insured losses from natural catastrophes exceeded $100bn for fourth consecutive year in 2023

  
• May 7 2024
  Ian Smith

  It is right that reinsurers are finding it harder to fly under the radar

  Industry plays vital role in spreading risk but the business model is changing

  
• April 28 2024
  News in-depth

  Traditional insurers are ‘like frogs getting boiled’, says industry veteran

  Anant Bhalla turned a life insurer into a play on private assets. Now he wants to build a ‘merchant bank’ for the industry

  
• April 7 2024
  Insurance

  Aon chief calls for better models for ‘stressed’ property insurance market

  Industry’s reliance on history to predict losses not sufficient for era of climate, cyber and AI risks, Greg Case says

  
• April 1 2024
  The FT ViewThe editorial board

  The painful rise in home insurance costs

  Climate resilience efforts are essential to keep a check on policy premiums

  
• February 4 2024
  Pensions industry

  UK pension trustees raise alarm on transferring risks offshore

  Trustees are worried about growing involvement of overseas reinsurance firms in corporate pension deals

  
• December 24 2023
  Insurance

  Reinsurers resist calls to cut prices for extreme weather cover

  Property catastrophe reinsurance prices have surged over the past 18 months

  
• December 4 2023
  UnhedgedRobert Armstrong

  Gold’s weird rally Premium content

  And private equity’s insurance trade

  
• November 26 2023
  Global tax clampdown fuels boom in insurance against costly rulings

  Brokers and underwriters say this has been their busiest year to date

  
• November 3 2023
  Private equity

  IMF raises alarm over ‘contagion’ from private capital in life insurance

  Potential for ‘contagion’ to wider financial sector and real economy as private capital groups have flooded in

  

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