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Licensed insurance companies in Bermuda (2026)

PartialPartially verified against the BMA register, checked 8 Sept 2026.

The 49 insurance companies licensed in Bermuda in 2026, as recorded by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

Snapshot

49Licensed operators
0Life0% of entities
0General (non-life)0% of entities
48Cross-border groups1 domestically owned

By class of business

Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.

By ownership

  • Foreign multinational48 98%
  • Mutual / cooperative1 2%

“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded

Licensed insurers in Bermuda

Showing 25 of 49 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
Allied World Assurance Company LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalFairfaxPartial
American International Reinsurance Company LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalAIGPartial
Arch Reinsurance LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalArch CapitalPartial
Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd (ex-ACE Bermuda)RReinsurerForeign multinationalChubbPartial
Chubb Tempest Reinsurance LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalChubbPartial
Hannover Re (Bermuda) LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalTalanxPartial
Markel Bermuda LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalMarkelPartial
MS Reinsurance (Mitsui Sumitomo Reinsurance Ltd)RReinsurerForeign multinationalMS&ADPartial
Somers Re Ltd (ex-Watford Re)RReinsurerForeign multinationalArch CapitalPartial
XL Bermuda LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalAXA XLPartial
Athene Life Re LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalApollo / Athene (Class E long-term)Partial
Brit Reinsurance (Bermuda) LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalBrit / FairfaxPartial
Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd (Sompo International)RReinsurerForeign multinationalSompo HoldingsPartial
Partner Reinsurance Company LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalPartnerRe (Covea)Partial
Prudential Bermuda ISA LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalPrudential Financial (Class E, May 2026)Partial
Aspen Bermuda LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalAspenPartial
AXIS Specialty Insurance LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalAXIS CapitalPartial
AXIS Specialty LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalAXIS CapitalPartial
Everest Reinsurance (Bermuda) LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalEverestPartial
Aeolus Re LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalAeolus Capital Management (SPI/collateralised)Partial
Antares Reinsurance Company Ltd (Qatar Re)RReinsurerForeign multinationalQIC GroupPartial
Argo Re LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalBrookfield Wealth SolutionsPartial
Ariel Re Bda LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalAriel RePartial
Ascot Bermuda LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalAscot Group (CPP Investments)Partial
Assured Guaranty Re LtdRReinsurerForeign multinationalAssured Guaranty (Class 3B financial guaranty)Partial

Full table for Bermuda ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Bermuda

Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.

Regime
Insurance Act 1978; BMA class structure from captive Classes 1-3 to commercial Class 4; Solvency II equivalence for the commercial classes
Register source
ABIR 2026 member list (abir.bm, updated 31 Aug 2026) cross-checked with BMA registration notices; Class 4 = BMA commercial (re)insurer class with US$100m capital floor
Verification
Partially verified against the regulator register · ABIR 2026 member list (abir.bm, updated 31 Aug 2026) cross-checked with BMA registration notices; Class 4 = BMA commercial (re)insurer class with US$100m capital floor

No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.

Governing legislation

  • Bermuda Monetary Authority Act 1969; Insurance Act 1978 · Institutional and insurance framework

    The BMA’s legal library contains its establishing act and the insurance framework, including prudential rules for different insurer classes.

Verification log

34 ABIR carrier members mapped to their Bermuda operating (re)insurers; Class 4 flagged where the BMA class is known; captives (Classes 1-3, A-B) and SPIs not itemised - BMA register is a search database. The register holds ~1,100 insurers in all: Class 4 (~45), Classes 3A/3B (~150), long-term Classes C-E (~150), captive Classes 1-3 and A-B (~650), and SPIs and collateralised insurers (~170)

For B2B teams and AI agents

The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.

curl -s https://north-america.insurers.global/api/v1/countries/bermuda.json
curl -s https://north-america.insurers.global/api/v1/countries/bermuda/insurers/pages/1.json