crop insurance

As the 2015/16 El Niño event intensifies there is an expectation that global economic losses from drought will surpass the previous forecasts of $8 billion, suggesting a growing toll for crop insurance, reinsurance and any ILS investors exposed to agricultural lines.

The insurance-linked security (ILS) and reinsurance-linked investment market increasingly shows an interest in adopting the use of crop insurance risk models, as the sector looks to find new avenues to deploy capital into for premium income return. The ILS and collateralized reinsurance market sees crop as a potential new peril.

Kalista Global the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance services firm focusing on the insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bond, parametric re/insurance and alternative reinsurance sectors, has launched another new product today. Hot on the heels of the launch of an index-based ENSO (El Nino) cover the firm has announced the launch of a range of multi-peril […]

According to Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurer, global crop insurance claims in 2012 reached a massive $23 billion. Munich Re attributes as much as $15 billion of these losses in the U.S. due to the severe drought in 2012. Crop losses are growing with increasing insurance penetration and in years to come these figures […]

The latest sigma report published by reinsurer Swiss Re discusses the issue of agricultural insurance and reinsurance in emerging markets and suggests that premiums are set to grow fourfold over the next decade or so. Currently the emerging economies of the world make up around 22% of global agricultural insurance premiums, at $5.2 billion, with […]

A weather index based microinsurance scheme which has been active in Kenya for more than two years is now expanding its reach to include Rwanda as well. The scheme which offers farmers a way to protect their crops against weather extremes through the use of insurance products with parametric index type triggers is operated by […]

A report from rating agency Standard & Poor’s estimates that the U.S. crop insurance and reinsurance sector will see losses of over $5 billion from the severe drought which has been affecting much of the country in 2012. S&P says that however large the loss becomes they believe it will impact crop insurers earnings but […]

Just two or three weeks ago many insurance publications were suggesting that crop insurance losses resulting from the severe drought in the U.S. would not be large enough to hit the global reinsurance market. We’ve been cautious on this point, as we could see the increasing severity of the drought (the worst in more than […]

Back in January we wrote that U.S. crop insurance losses had hit record levels of $9 billion for the year 2011, with much of those losses attributed to freezing weather across the Southern U.S. states, droughts in the Plains, flooding along the Mississippi river, severe rainstorms and hail from severe thunderstorms. That beat the previous […]

2011 was a year that saw a lot of records broken in weather and natural disaster events, the results of which were insured losses for the year of between $105 billion to $110 billion across the globe. Now data has been published which shows that U.S. crop insurance claims payments have hit a record for […]