insurance

The use of risk transfer and insurance arrangements are seen as a supporting mechanism for unlocking capital to power net zero and to protect natural assets, with scaled up use of parametrics seen as key, according to a new report from Howden and Pollination Group.

HCI Group, the Florida-focused insurance holding company, said it expects to pay between $600 million and $750 million in claims for hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton, but net retained losses from the three events could be as low as $185 million.

Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has reported that global publicly and privately insured catastrophe losses reached US $108 billion after the third-quarter, which once hurricane Milton and the rest of Q4 are added means the annual total for 2024 could be well-above the decadal average.

We’re told by sources that the price guidance range has been lowered for the second catastrophe bond to be sponsored by Prologis, Inc., the logistics, warehousing and supply-chain focused real estate owner and investor, while the target size remains at $95 million for its new Logistics Re Ltd. (Series 2024-1) US earthquake cat bond issuance.

Hurricane Helene is estimated to drive private market insurance and reinsurance industry losses in a range from $6 billion to as high as $11 billion by Verisk.

Welcoming attendees to ILS Bermuda’s 2024 Convergence event today, Jo Stanton, Chair of ILS Bermuda and Head of Finance at insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager Tangency Capital explained that with hurricane Milton heading for Florida it highlights the importance of collaborations with science to drive the understanding of risk and innovation.

Moody’s RMS Event Response has said that it estimates private market insurance industry losses from hurricane Helene will be in a range from $8 billion to as much as $14 billion, one of the highest estimates seen so far.

CoreLogic has now updated its insurance market loss estimate for hurricane Helene to include losses to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), now putting the total in a range from $10.5 billion to as much as $17.5 billion.

While the majority of industry losses from hurricane Helene are expected to fall below primary insurers reinsurance attachment points, any that do flow to reinsurers should be able to be absorbed within earnings thanks to the structural changes of the reinsurance reset, S&P Global Ratings has said.

Public and private insurance market losses from all perils associated with hurricane Helene “will likely reach at least into the higher single-digit billions,” according to Aon’s Impact Forecasting division.