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Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development arm Impact Forecasting, have published their July 2011 Monthly Cat Recap report which looks at the natural catastrophes that occurred over the course of the month around the world.

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a non-profit multi-country risk pooling facility providing parametric hurricane and earthquake cover to Caribbean countries, has announced that it is making its Real-Time Forecasting System available to all of its members.

Record rainfall in South Korea in recent days has caused significant damage and loss of life from flooding and landslides. As much as 16 inches of rain was recorded in a 24 hour period in the capital Seoul, an astounding amount of precipitation for a short time span. Despite the fact that South Korea is […]

China is a country particularly exposed to damaging losses from a range of natural catastrophes and severe weather events and it regularly suffers billions of dollars of economic losses per year and major loss of life. Despite this fact insurance penetration is low across the country and natural catastrophe coverage is hard to come by.

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a non-profit multi-country risk pooling facility who provide parametric hurricane and earthquake cover to Caribbean countries, has had to delay the launch of its long awaited excess rainfall insurance product.

Aon Benfield have published their Monthly Cat Recap Report for June which is put together by their Impact Forecasting catastrophe modelling and analysis arm. The monthly updates provide a useful review of the events around the globe which will create losses for re/insurers.

Frank Nutter, President of the Reinsurance Association of America, has published an opinion piece on the Washington focused website theHill.com. In it he calls again for the National Flood Insurance Program to be reformed and allow the private sector to become the reinsurer and ultimate backstop for the program leaving the taxpayers unburdened.

Allstate are the latest U.S. insurer to announce massive losses due to the severe weather which hit the U.S. midwest and south during April and May. Being the largest home and auto insurer in the U.S. their losses were always going to be meaningful. The period of severe thunderstorms which spawned record breaking numbers of […]

U.S. property and casualty insurer The Travelers Companies has announced that it expects to face insured losses of over $1 billion for the severe weather experienced in the U.S. during April and May. The estimate reflects losses from the severe thunderstorms across the Midwest and Southeast U.S. which spawned many tornadoes and severe hail storms.

The recent run of heavy disaster losses for re/insurers from events in the U.S. seems set to continue thanks to the current flooding event caused by the record height of the Mississippi river. Flood levels have been rising over the past week as rainwater from a number of severe storms and also some snowmelt make […]