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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.

Bermuda based reinsurer PartnerRe has issued a preliminary estimate of the losses it expects to see due to the tornado outbreak that impacted the U.S. during the last week of April 2011. This spell of tornadic weather caused hundreds of deaths and widespread damage, the worst of which was when impacted the state of Alabama, […]

Another series of catastrophe bond notes, Atlas VI Capital Ltd. 2009-1 Class A, has had its rating downgraded due to exposure to the earthquake event in Japan, however in this case it’s not due to exposure to the 11th March M9.0 earthquake, rather it is due to exposure to two aftershocks which occurred in early […]

Risk modeller EQECAT have issued an update to their estimate of the insured loss due to the Tohoku earthquake which struck Japan on the 11th March causing massive damage from the widespread shaking and tsunami that followed. Now, almost two months after the earthquake, they have had time to gather data and perform greater analysis […]

The Alabama State Insurance Commissioner, Jim Ridling, said at a news conference yesterday that he expects the State to bear the brunt of the insured losses expected from the recent spate of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms across the southern U.S.

PartnerRe announced last month that a portion of their losses due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan would be due to insurance-linked securities. At the time we wrote that it was likely that they had an investment in the Muteki Ltd. cat bond (which is expected to be a total loss). Now […]

The first quarter of 2011 has been particularly devastating as far as catastrophe losses go and it looks like Bermuda domiciled reinsurers are going to pick up at least $5 billion of the bill. The Royal Gazette reports that major commercial re/insurers from the Bermuda market have already declared around $4.6 billion of insured catastrophe […]

PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company providing industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data, has released an updated version of its PERILS Europe Windstorm Industry Exposure Database.

Rating agency Moody’s has downgraded the notes of catastrophe bond Muteki Ltd. today as they believe the deal will be triggered (which we suggested was possible earlier) and they expect a total loss of principal to investors in the transaction. The $300m Series 2008-1 deal provided protection to Munich Re for certain reinsurance contracts they […]

Swiss Re have today published their latest Sigma report which looks at the toll suffered around the globe from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters during 2010. The report shows that losses were exceptionally high in 2010, particularly for a year when the Atlantic hurricane season (one of the biggest loss events on many years) caused […]