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Life, Health and Personal Accident Reinsurance

Responsive reinsurance solutions across Life, Health and Personal Accident, combining international capacity, technical expertise and regional market insight to help insurers manage risk, strengthen capital efficiency and grow sustainably.

Specialist Reinsurance Solutions

Portfolio-focused reinsurance built for evolving insurance markets

At Ocean Re, we provide facultative and treaty reinsurance solutions across Life, Health and Personal Accident portfolios, supporting insurers with technical expertise, regional market insight and reliable international capacity.

We partner with insurers, brokers and programme sponsors to help manage volatility, optimise capital efficiency and support sustainable portfolio growth across established and emerging markets.

With underwriting teams across key regional and international markets, Ocean Re combines global reinsurance expertise with responsive local execution.

Our Capabilities

We support life and health insurers with flexible facultative and treaty reinsurance structures across proportional and non-proportional programmes.

We structure solutions for individual and group portfolios, including multinational, employee benefit and affinity-based schemes, helping partners access reliable capacity and adapt to evolving portfolio needs.

Our solutions help insurers:

  • Expand underwriting capacity
  • Support sustainable portfolio growth
  • Manage exposure volatility
  • Strengthen capital efficiency
  • Build resilient long-term programmes
Life Reinsurance

Coverage Areas

We provide reinsurance capacity across life, health and accident portfolios, supporting insurers, employee benefit providers and programme sponsors with flexible, portfolio-specific solutions.

Our coverage helps partners manage risk, improve capital efficiency and expand underwriting capabilities across established and emerging protection markets.

Group Life
Protection programmes for employee benefit schemes, affinity groups, associations, collective portfolios and multinational corporate clients.

Health
Reinsurance support for medical expense programmes, catastrophic health risks and complementary health protection plans.

Personal Accident
Scalable reinsurance programmes providing protection against accidental death, disability and injury across individual and group portfolios.

Introducing the newest member of our journey, Alma Vilchis-Umana

Why Ocean Re

We combine international capacity, regional insight and specialist underwriting expertise to support insurers across evolving life and health markets.

We work closely with cedents and brokers to structure responsive reinsurance solutions aligned with each portfolio’s objectives, risk profile and market environment.

  • Strong financial backing and international ratings
  • Specialist Life and Health underwriting expertise
  • Facultative and treaty reinsurance capabilities
  • Regional insight across Latin America, the Caribbean and international markets
  • Actuarial and portfolio review support
  • Direct access to experienced decision-makers
  • Responsive underwriting and efficient execution
  • Long-term relationships with cedents and brokers
Group Subsidiaries

Life Reinsurance

Our Team

Our Life Reinsurance team brings together specialist underwriting expertise, technical discipline and practical market experience across facultative, treaty, life and health portfolios.

With professionals across key regional markets, the team provides informed risk assessment, responsive decision-making and tailored programme support.

Their combined experience strengthens Ocean Re’s ability to deliver dependable capacity and practical reinsurance solutions across diverse markets.

  • Edmundo Tovar

    Mexico

    Edmundo Tovar Global Life Head of Facultative Portfolio

  • Fernando Pelayo

    Mexico

    Fernando Pelayo Global Life Head of Treaty Portfolios

  • Alma Vilchis-Umana

    London

    Alma Vilchis-Umana Life & Health Underwriting Representative

  • Irvin Hidalgo

    Panama City

    Irvin Hidalgo Life and Health Senior Underwriter

  • Kathy Contreras

    Panama City

    Kathy Contreras Life and Health Senior Underwriter

  • Alan Mauricio Reyes

    Mexico

    Alan Mauricio Reyes Life & Health Underwriter

  • Lorena Vega

    Mexico

    Lorena Vega Life & Health Analyst Underwriter

  • Jean Philippe Clement

    Panama City

    Jean Philippe Clement Life & Health Underwriter

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From capacity requirements to tailored portfolio solutions, our underwriters are ready to work with you.

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