European windstorm Burglind

The estimate of insurance and reinsurance industry losses caused by European windstorm Burglind, which was known as Eleanor in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has risen to EUR 756 million (US $860m), a 4.4% increase.

The estimate of insurance and reinsurance industry losses caused by European windstorm Burglind, which was known as Eleanor in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has risen by another 6% to $840 million (EUR 724m), at the third update from PERILS AG.

The estimate of insurance and reinsurance industry losses caused by European windstorm Burglind, also known as Eleanor in the UK, has been raised by 6% to EUR 680 million, at the second update from PERILS AG.

The initial estimate of insurance and reinsurance industry losses due to European windstorm Burglind, also known as Eleanor, has been put at EUR 643 million by catastrophe loss data aggregator PERILS AG.

European windstorms that impacted western and central Europe during the month of January are expected to cause an insurance and reinsurance industry loss of at least $2 billion, according to data from Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting unit.

Catastrophe risk modelling firm AIR Worldwide has estimated that the total insurance and reinsurance industry loss from recent European windstorm Burglind, also known as Eleanor, could be as high as $1.92 billion (EUR 1.6 billion).

European windstorm Burglind, or storm Eleanor as it was named in the United Kingdom, will probably cause an insurance and reinsurance industry-wide loss of around EUR 500 million, with EUR 200 million+ of losses expected for German insurers alone, according to actuarial firm Meyerthole Siems Kohlruss (MSK) .