All natural catastrophe articles
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NewsLockton Re cyber cat report focuses on reinsurance consequences
A reinsurance broking report shines a spotlight on the consequences of a potential cyber catastrophe across the re/insurance value chain.
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NewsDubai floods add to claims, reinsurance costs for local insurers – Moody’s
April storms mean claims and increased reinsurance costs for GCC insurers, according to a rating agency report.
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News'No big bets' – interview with Ascot’s US chief risk officer
The world is changing and the insurance industry will have to change with it. Steve Guijarro, US chief risk officer of re/insurer Ascot Group, explains what the company is doing to achieve this.
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NewsHowden Tiger appoints Chattaraj chief science officer
An internal hire, Bhaskar Chattaraj takes on the newly-created role for the reinsurance broker.
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NewsReinsurance pricing to peak in 2024, but claims inflation and cat risk persist – Moody’s
Moody’s expects continued strong demand for reinsurance and higher investment yields, to drive attractive RoEs for the sector in 2024, assuming no large catastrophe events.
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NewsQ&A: ICEYE on the utility of satellite data for flood damage mitigation
Sponsored: Rupert Bidwell, vice president for insurance solutions at ICEYE, talks to GR’s sister title Insurance Times about the power of leveraging satellite technology
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NewsTemperatures are rising and MENA’s protection gap leads the world – Swiss Re at GAIF34
2023 saw major earthquakes in Turkey and Morocco, severe thunderstorms and flooding in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, hailstorms in Jordan, a tropical cyclone in Oman, and a major flood in Libya.
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NewsBullish Lloyd’s expects to be in the top quartile – Tiernan
Four pillars of the Lloyd’s 2024 cyber strategy, a nat cat portfolio shift, and a “quiet revolution” in the market, were outlined by the Lloyd’s chief of markets, speaking at a Fitch Ratings event.
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News$100bn is the new normal for annual nat cat losses – WTW
2023 revealed the scale of the protection gap, but was still a $100bn+ nat cat year, the broker said.
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NewsInsurance Development Forum provides Disaster Risk Reduction Task Force update
The task force has three areas of focus, according to the public-private partnership between the insurance industry and the UN, World Bank and other NGOs.
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NewsSwiss Re: SCS losses reach record $60bn in 2023
The reinsurer said natural catastrophes will once again break several loss records in 2023, with severe convective storms driving the numbers.
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NewsThe most climate vulnerable countries could lose 100%+ of GDP from insurable cats – Cambridge, Howden study
Risk-sharing action plan to scale up loss and damage funding for Global South countries to inform COP28 discussions in Dubai.
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NewsDisaster financing report shows just 2.7% of $71bn in crisis financing was pre-arranged
Addressing the protection gap, only $1.9bn of $71bn in international crisis financing that was used for pre-arranged finance in 2021, according to a study by the Centre for Disaster Protection.
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NewsMoody’s RMS developing point location data for simpler cat models
2024 is tipped to be the hottest year for 100 million years, with droughts and wildfires continuing to be a major threat, according to the cat modeller’s chief research officer.
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NewsHawaii wildfires: Moody’s RMS estimates insured property loss of $2.5-4bn
Most losses are expected to be from the town of Lahaina, which sustained catastrophic urban fires for 12 hours and destroyed almost 2,200 structures. Around 75% of the economic loss is expected to be insured, the cat modeller thinks.
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NewsSevere US storms broke records for H1 nat cat losses – Swiss Re
Severe convective storms drove global natural catastrophe insured losses, which reached $50bn across all perils, according to the Swiss Re Institute.
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NewsFirst half catastrophes “much higher than the 10-year average” – Munich Re
Earthquakes, thunderstorms and floods led the natural disaster figures for the first half of 2023.
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NewsAbove-average H1 nat cats hit $52bn – Gallagher Re
Insured losses from natural catastrophes in the first half of 2023 were driven by a series of big US storms and El Niño’s arrival.
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NewsFirst quarter nat cat economic loss the highest in 12 years – Gallagher Re
Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re said its estimate of $22bn in insured natural catastrophe losses for the quarter showcase “a significant protection gap”.
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NewsCyclone Gabrielle costs NZ insurers $1.5 billion
Catastrophes represent ”one of the most challenging periods for the insurance industry since the Canterbury earthquake sequence” - PERILS
