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AXA XL is the commercial insurance and reinsurance underwriting department of global re/insurer AXA Group.

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AXA XL names Northeast & Central region leaders for North American Property

22nd May 2019

AXA XL has appointed Raymond Chiusano to lead its North America Property insurance team's Northeast region, and promoted Brian Gauder to lead its North Central region. Chiusano, who will be based out of New York, is assuming the role currently held by Joseph Moylan, who has announced his planned 2020 retirement. Prior ... Read the full article

AXA XL promotes Marc Bertha to lead U.S East Region Multinational Casualty team

20th May 2019

AXA XL has promoted Marc Bertha as team lead for the U.S Eastern Region Multinational Casualty group, based in New York. He will be tasked with leading the region’s underwriting team as they partner with new and existing clients in the management of complex international risks. Bertha joined AXA XL in 2013 ... Read the full article

AXA XL sets up Seaview Re as Class 3A reinsurer to add efficiency

10th May 2019

AXA XL has established a new Class 3A reinsurer in Bermuda called Seaview Re Ltd., we've learned, with the vehicle taking a quota share of the firms U.S. risks, including property catastrophe, and set to act as a capital efficiency play. Seaview Re Ltd. was registered by AXA XL back in ... Read the full article

AXA XL’s Q1 revenue growth offset by 2% reinsurance drop

3rd May 2019

AXA XL has reported total revenue growth of 7% for the first quarter of 2019, driven by 16% growth for P&C insurance and 4% growth for specialty, but offset by a 2% decline for reinsurance. Total revenue rose to €6.1 billion, made up of €2.9 billion from P&C insurance, €1.4 billion ... Read the full article

AXA XL adds cover for cyber business interruption

25th April 2019

AXA XL, a division of French insurance and investment giant AXA, has designed a new first-party cyber insurance option to help businesses in the U.S address interruption resulting from a cyber attack. The new cyber option, which is available to businesses that buy 100% of their property coverage from AXA XL, ... Read the full article

New Energy Risk backs $260mn plastics-to-fuel plant with policy by AXA XL

24th April 2019

New Energy Risk, an insurer for renewable technology projects, has provided RES Polyflow, a plastics-to-fuel technology company, with a performance insurance program designed by AXA XL. The policy will mitigate technology risk for financiers interested in investing in RES Polyflow’s Ashley, Indiana plant, which will be the first commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel project ... Read the full article

AXA XL releases expanded contractor’s equipment insurance product

9th April 2019

AXA XL, the newly-formed division of French insurance and investment giant AXA, has announced the release of a new contractor’s equipment product in North America. Mike Perrotti, AXA XL’s Inland Marine Practice Leader for North America, explained that the new product is designed to meet the increasingly complex needs of a ... Read the full article

AXA XL promotes Jennifer Minors to SVP in Bermuda Professional Lines unit

3rd April 2019

AXA XL has announced the promotion of Jennifer Minors to Senior Vice President – Product Line Leader in its Bermuda Professional Lines Insurance business. She will now be responsible for managing directors and officers (D&O), professional liability, employment practices liability (EPL), wage & hour (W&H), transactional liability (TL) and cyber liability ... Read the full article

Chris McKeown steps down as Vice Chairman of New Ocean

2nd April 2019

AXA XL has announced that Chris McKeown, the former CEO of its ILS management platform New Ocean Capital Management, has stepped down from his role as Vice Chairman to pursue other interests. McKeown has more than 30 years of re/insurance and alternative capital management experience, and was the founding CEO of ... Read the full article

AXA to further reduce earnings volatility with increased use of reinsurance: Analysts

2nd April 2019

Following its acquisition of XL Group last year, global insurer AXA has been de-risking its catastrophe exposure, a trend that J.P. Morgan analysts expect to continue in 2019, with the help of alternative reinsurance capital. During last year, AXA and XL Group ceded increased volumes of catastrophe exposure to reinsurance and ... Read the full article

AXA XL and Assurely partner on crowdfunding investor protection

7th March 2019

AXA XL has partnered with insurtech firm Assurely on an insurance product for issuers and investors that safeguards new online capital formation strategies, including equity crowdfunding and security token offerings (STOs). The product, called CrowdProtector, provides issuers protection against investor complaints and lawsuits, and communicates to investors that they may have ... Read the full article

Costly natural disasters see AXA XL slump to €233m full year loss

21st February 2019

AXA XL, the newly-formed division of French insurance and investment giant AXA, has seen significant impacts from two major natural catastrophes in the fourth quarter of 2018 result in the posting of a €233 million full year loss. The California wildfires, which consisted mainly of the Camp and Woolsey fires in Northern ... Read the full article

AXA XL details potential job cuts in future plans

12th February 2019

AXA XL has drafted a plan for the future target operating model and organisational structure of the business, which includes the potential reduction of 711 positions in Europe. The plan, which has been presented to representatives in France, Italy, Germany and the UK, forms part of the process to unite AXA ... Read the full article

AXA XL affiliate signs MoU with ThermoChem Recovery

1st February 2019

New Energy Risk (NER), a provider of performance risk solutions for breakthrough technologies and an AXA XL affiliate, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ThermoChem Recovery International, Inc. (TRI), designed to accelerate project development, increase profits and provide certainty of execution. NER has completed due diligence on TRI's range of biorefinery-technologies, ... Read the full article

AXA XL renews and expands partnership with Guidewire Software

29th January 2019

AXA XL has partnered with Guidewire Software, Inc. in order to have global access to the Silicon Valley-based company's Guidewire Cyence Risk Analytics (Cyence) modelling solution for cyber exposures. Cyence is designed to help quantify the financial impact of cyber risk exposures, and AXA XL's Cyber Insurance unit has utilised the ... Read the full article