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Verisk, a catastrophe risk modelling and data analytics specialist, has now issued an initial industry insured loss estimate for recent hurricane Isaias, saying that onshore property losses from the storm could reach $2 billion.

Euler ILS Partners, the specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has placed an initial insurance industry loss estimate for recent hurricane Isaias in the range of $2 billion to $4 billion, noting there is the potential for the storm’s losses to add to aggregate structures.

As major hurricane Simon’s path shifted west it appears to have remained offshore of the important parametric trigger zones related to the $175 million IBRD CAR Mexico 2024 (Pacific) catastrophe bond, according to analysis by Isacco Loconte an insurance-linked securities (ILS) Investment Specialist at asset manager Azimut Switzerland SA.

Hurricane Simon in the Pacific remains a very strong storm at major hurricane strength and is expected to sustain that status when it nears landfall on the Mexico coastline on Sunday, with its intensification and deeper pressure now putting the $175 million IBRD CAR Mexico 2024 (Pacific) parametric catastrophe bond at potential risk.

Hurricane Isaias is now forecast to intensify further to become a major Category 3 storm as it approaches the Gulf Coast today, outpacing meteorologists initial expectations. But, prior to landfall late today or early on Saturday, Isaias is expected to encounter wind shear and begin to weaken, which should lessen the impacts and keeps estimates […]

The severe storm outbreak that impacted Southern Ontario, including Toronto, on September 2nd and 3rd, 2026, is estimated to have resulted in an insurance industry loss of CAD $563 million, according to CatIQ, Canada’s insured loss and exposure indices provider.

Isaiais is now the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season having intensified overnight and the forecast continues to suggest a Category 2 landfall on the Gulf Coast is a possible outcome, at which level of intensity reinsurance broker Gallagher Re said it would typically result in insured losses in the low to mid-single digit […]

Catastrophe risk modelling specialist Karen Clark & Company (KCC), has launched a new version of its US Severe Convective Storm (SCS) model, incorporating a range of advancements that further strengthens the firm’s approach to quantifying losses from one of the weather perils driving a significant share of insured property losses across the country.

The US National Hurricane Center’s latest forecast, for what remains tropical depression nine at this time, is for the developing system to become tropical storm Isaias later today, after which it is forecast to intensify into a hurricane and head towards a landfall on the Gulf Coast.

CatIQ, Canada’s insured loss and exposure index provider, has raised its insurance industry loss estimate for the severe thunderstorm event that impacted parts of southern Ontario and southern Quebec between June 30th and July 3rd, 2026, to CAD $491 million, a 12% increase from the firm’s second loss estimate of $439 million.