Mariah Re Ltd. Series 2010-2

The 2nd Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals has thrown out an appeal related to the contested payout of the Mariah Re Ltd. catastrophe bond, affirming that American Family Mutual Insurance does not have to pay any of the $100m back to reinsurance vehicle Mariah Re.

Mariah Re Ltd. has filed an appeal against the recent ruling which found that the terms governing the definition of and process for defining qualifying events under the catastrophe bond were unambiguous and that the payout should stand.

A New York Federal judge dismissed claims regarding the catastrophe bond Mariah Re Ltd. on Tuesday, according to court transcripts. The judge ruled that the terms governing the definition of and process for qualifying events of Mariah Re are unambiguous.

The story of the Mariah Re Ltd. catastrophe bonds is not over yet. The two severe thunderstorm cat bond issuances by the Mariah Re Ltd. special purpose vehicle were both stricken by one of  the worst U.S. tornado seasons on record in 2011, causing both series of cat bond notes issued by Mariah Re to […]

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s have downgraded the issue credit rating on the Series 2010-1 notes issued by Mariah Re Ltd. from ‘CC’ to ‘D’ today. This may well be the final update on this the first of the defaulted Mariah Re severe thunderstorm catastrophe bonds which became a total loss due to the record […]

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has issued an update to the loss estimates from severe thunderstorms and tornadoes which impacted the Mariah Re catastrophe bond transactions. As and when loss estimates are updated by Property Claims Services (PCS) for each catastrophe event, S&P have been updating the market on the potential impact to Mariah […]

As we wrote yesterday, the Mariah Re catastrophe bonds were the main losers in the secondary market during the month of September as mark to market losses increased due to the realisation that there would be a loss of investor principal for the Series 2010-2 notes and covered losses were still rising for the Series […]

September saw another active month of activity in the secondary market for catastrophe bonds although not all of that activity resulted in trades as some investors failed to make the acquisitions they sought and place their excess capital. There were no new primary market cat bonds at all in September, which tends to be the […]

We wrote earlier today about the increase in covered losses faced by the Mariah Re 2010-1 series of catastrophe bond notes after Standard & Poor’s updated the covered loss totals and downgraded the bond. Readers who’ve been keeping track of the fate of Mariah Re will be aware that there is a second transaction with […]

Yesterday we updated you with the news that ratings agency Standard & Poor’s had updated the covered loss totals for the Mariah Re Ltd. Series 2010-1 catastrophe bond transaction. The losses have been mounting from the severe tornado season in the U.S. and the holders of the $100m of Series 2010-1 notes are now just […]