typhoon

Kairos Risk Solutions, a regional risk consultancy firm headquartered in Singapore, in collaboration with Thailand-based insurance broker, CHAZ Insurance Brokers, has finalised a parametric insurance solution designed to protect an offshore aquaculture firm against the impact of typhoons in the South China Sea region.

With the development of La Nina conditions anticipated during this summer and its persistence through the autumn, Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) has called for the Northwest Pacific typhoon season to see activity levels around 20% below normal, albeit still with 15 typhoons, 7 of which are forecast to be intense.

The Chinese coastline from Shanghai right the way around to Hong Kong and the Greater Bay area is all facing a threat of potentially destructive winds and storm surge, as super typhoon Saola and what is currently tropical storm Haikui approach.

The Northwest Pacific typhoon season is forecast to see above-normal levels of storm activity in 2023, with 13 intense typhoons predicted by Tropical Storm Risk (TSR).

The Northwest Pacific typhoon season, which is one of the peak zone perils for reinsurance, catastrophe bond and other insurance-linked securities (ILS), is forecast to see activity levels roughly 20% below-normal, as the effects of La Niña are increasingly expected to last through summer and into Autumn.

China’s province of Henan has been hit by what is being termed a 1-in-1000 year flood event, after a year’s worth of rainfall fell in just three days. But the insurance and reinsurance market claims impact may be most severe on the auto side, rather than property claims, while supply-chain disruption could also be a […]

Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has warned of above-normal potential for tropical cyclones, or typhoons, in certain parts of the western North Pacific basin this year, with an above-average number of storms anticipated.

Macau, the autonomous region on the south coast of China, is piloting a parametric activated typhoon insurance product that will pay out only after typhoon warnings reach severe levels, with reinsurance backing the pilot from Hong Kong based China Taiping.

Cities in the Asia-Pacific region will become the dominant source of global insured windstorm exposure by the year 2070, as rising asset values, growing insurance and reinsurance penetration and rising populations in tropical storm hot spots change the risk landscape.

Despite losses from recent catastrophe events in Japan being manageable there is an expectation that Japanese non-life insurers will seek to retain less risk on their balance-sheets and make greater use of reinsurance and ILS instruments like catastrophe bonds.