All natural catastrophe articles
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NewsReinsurance and Resilience: Has the GCC insurance landscape truly changed after the Dubai floods?
By Melissa Ford, senior vice president and head of Middle East and Africa treaty reinsurance, Everest
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NewsAon reports record $38bn in Q1 insured catastrophe losses
Wildfires in California alone contributed about $38bn of insured losses, or 71% of the total, according to the re/insurance broker.
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NewsParametric expanding in Africa and ILS markets – GC&C’s Edwards
Simon Edwards leads parametric underwriting at Generali Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C) in the UK, including an expanding partnership with Descartes Underwriting.
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NewsWTW: Nat cat protection gap at 60% as climate rise reaches 1.5°C
Global insured losses surpassed $140bn last year, while economic damages surpassed $350bn, according to a broker report.
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NewsVerisk puts $6-11bn insured loss estimate on Helene
Catastrophe modeller Verisk estimates industry insured losses in the US for Hurricane Helene will range between $6-11bn.
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NewsFirst ever insurance payout of Red Cross disaster fund triggered in 2024
Demands for disaster relief this year surpassed the ‘deductible’ threshold of the Red Cross and Red Crescent’s IFRC-DREF’ disaster fund, the NGO has reported.
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NewsA new phase in the cycle begins – Howden Re’s Flandro
After a Goldilocks period for reinsurers, a new stage in the cycle is starting to take shape, with signs including lower interest rates and their effects on bond portfolios, David Flandro, Howden Re’s head of industry analysis and strategic advisory, told GR.
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NewsHowden Re pre Monte report focuses on innovation
Rapidly changing nat cat, political violence and casualty re/insurance situations mean point to a greater need for collaborative innovation, reinsurance broker Howden Re said.
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NewsKCC: What’s causing market disruption and how to fix It
Karen Clark writes on the challenge facing catastrophe modelling, and the need for a major upgrade.
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NewsSwiss Re Sonar report: ‘Beyond broken infrastructure’
A new paper from Swiss Re explores cascading effects of natural disasters and other emerging risks.
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NewsWhat next after Dubai’s 'unprecedented' heavy rains? - Chedid Re interview
On 16 April, Dubai was affected by sudden, heavy rains that caused significant damages. Elsewhere, in Al-Ain, just over sixty miles from Dubai, nearly three times the usual annual rainfall was experienced in a single day.
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NewsNormanMax, Apollo launch first dedicated parametric nat cat Lloyd’s syndicate
Syndicate 3939 will be led by Stuart Newcombe, former active underwriter for Munich Re Innovation Syndicate 1840, as its active underwriter.
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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.
