convective

Insurers and reinsurers are understandably nervous about the recent outbreak of tornadoes. Last year tornadoes caused in excess of $26 billion of economic losses and killed hundreds of people. Of course they also caused the default of the two Mariah Re catastrophe bonds. Now we seem to be beginning another extremely active tornado year, but […]

The recent total loss of the two $100m tranches of Mariah Re Ltd. catastrophe bonds could make issuing severe thunderstorm only cat bonds more difficult, suggests A.M. Best managing senior financial analyst Asha Attoh-Okine in this article. Mariah Re was the first cat bond which was solely exposed to severe thunderstorms, which includes convective storms […]

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 […]

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s have published an update regarding the fate of the Mariah Re Ltd. Series 2010-1 severe thunderstorm catastrophe bond which provides American Family Mutual Insurance with a source of collateralized reinsurance cover. The cat bond has been at risk due to the extreme nature of the tornado season in the U.S. […]

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 […]

Yesterday we wrote about Standard & Poor’s recent update on the status of covered losses under the terms of the Mariah Re Ltd. Series 2010-1 severe thunderstorm catastrophe bond. The cat bond has been accumulating losses from the severe spate of thunderstorms and tornadoes which affected the U.S. over the last few months. The figure […]

The impact of the record-breaking U.S. severe thunderstorm and tornado season on exposed catastrophe bond Mariah Re Ltd. Series 2010-1 is a little clearer after ratings agency Standard & Poor’s published an update on the amount of losses that have qualified under the terms of the aggregate cat bond. Losses have been mounting over the […]

As insured loss estimates from the record-setting U.S. tornado season are reported, the potential impact to exposed catastrophe bonds become clearer. The latest update on the cat bond fallout was reported today as Standard & Poor’s announced that they have downgraded the ratings of Mariah Re Ltd.’s Series 2010-1 notes.

The Mariah Re Ltd. catastrophe bond, which provides coverage to American Family Mutual Insurance for severe thunderstorms including tornadoes, has continued to incur qualifying event losses from the recent severe weather across the U.S. The events which have qualified have now resulted in sufficient covered losses for the rating of the transaction to be placed […]

Risk modeller EQECAT are the first to announce an estimated insured loss figure for the tornado which struck the city of Joplin, Missouri yesterday. As we wrote yesterday, we suspected that the storm was going to contribute a sizeable loss to the aggregate losses which have been mounting in this record U.S. tornado season, and […]