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A warm welcome to this 12th edition of Conyers Coverage to kick off 2025. Now that the dust has settled, our team is reflecting on another exceptional year for the Cayman Islands (re)insurance industry in 2024. We lawyers may...more
The wildfires in Los Angeles continue to rage and have destroyed or damaged more than 12,000 structures, mostly personal residences. Southern Californians will be impacted by the devastating aftermath for years to come. There...more
On 9 January 2025, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published its annual Dear CEO Letter setting out its priorities for the supervision of (re)insurers in 2025. Similar to last year, financial and operational...more
On Dec. 13, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill integrating parametric insurance into the state’s existing legal framework for insurance products under the New York Insurance Law (“NYIL”). Assembly Bill A10344...more
Increased strengthening of the global regulatory landscape in the (re)insurance industry has led to a similar increase in engagement between regulators and those they regulate. Specifically, Bermuda continues to be an...more
The PRA has released an important statement on its approach to funded reinsurance. Our view is that the statement endorses the conceptual principle that funded reinsurance (particularly to offshore counterparties) should best...more
The primary function of an insurer is the assumption and management of insurance risk. Very commonly, this will involve an insurer passing (or ceding) risk to other (re)insurers or protection providers in the relevant market....more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) laid out its priorities for insurance supervision this year in a 10 January 2023 Priorities Letter. In this newsletter, we summarise the broad themes emerging from the Priorities...more
A very warm welcome to our fifth issue of Conyers Coverage. This issue is a roundup of recent legal and regulatory measures affecting the insurance industry. Among a number of items, Rob has prepared an update on Cayman’s...more
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) recently issued Insurance Circular Letter No. 5 outlining its expectation that NY-regulated insurers make the diversity of their leadership a business priority and a...more
The cyber insurance market size is currently valued in the billions, and this does not include insurance policies that do not explicitly mention cyber incidents but may nevertheless cover them. With this in mind,...more
There has been considerable discussion in the market over the last 12 months about how lenders can increase liquidity and manage the risks that can arise through over-exposure to a particular sponsor, sector or product....more
This article follows on from a series of previous articles seeking to address climate change litigation in the context of insurance and reinsurance. Three different, but important, decisions in December 2019 have once again...more
Insurance carriers will find the following topics, recently discussed at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), relevant to capital management, financial risk, solvency and similar “prudential” issues,...more
Pool Reinsurance Company Limited has launched Pool Re Solutions, a new in-house centre of excellence for understanding, modelling and managing the threat of terrorism. The new unit is aimed at helping the reinsurer support...more
IVASS published on 5 June Regulation no. 38 concerning provisions on the corporate governance system (the “Regulation“) implementing EIOPA Guidelines pursuant to Solvency II Directive....more
Farella’s Insurance Recovery Group lawyers regularly collaborate with and learn from different players and functions within the insurance industry. To provide more value to our readers, we have reached out to a series of...more
Public Risk Management of Florida, an intergovernmental risk management association that functions as a primary insurer for certain government entities in Florida, ceded some of its risk to One Beacon under a reinsurance...more
Vermont has amended its law governing how ceding insurers take credit for reinsurance within the state. The law, in part, implements new eligibility requirements for assuming insurers to be accredited reinsurers and requires...more
Connecticut has amended its law concerning captive insurers doing business in the state to include, in part, a new provision on how foreign captive insurers can become Connecticut domestic companies and revisions on how...more