Property Claim Services

Over the course of 2013 the volume of catastrophe bonds issued which utilised data from Property Claim Services (PCS) within their triggers totalled $2.8 billion, accounting for nearly 40% of risk capital issued.

In the first nine months of 2013 approximately $2.1 billion catastrophe bond risk capital issued was based on a trigger which utilises data from Property Claims Services (PCS). This is 24% higher than a year earlier in 2012 when PCS triggers were used in $1.7 billion of cat bond issuance.

Of the catastrophe bonds issued in the first-half of this year, just over $1.6 billion of risk capital issued is based on a trigger which utilises data from Property Claims Services (PCS). PCS, the leading source of data on insured property losses from catastrophes in the U.S., is involved in the trigger of 7 transactions […]

The latest in our series of interviews with figures from the risk transfer and insurance-linked securities markets saw us speak with Joe Louwagie, assistant vice president at Property Claim Services® (PCS®), a unit of Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK).

The latest re-survey of hurricane Sandy insurance industry loss estimates has now been completed and published by Property Claim Services (PCS). The loss estimate for Sandy has not changed after this re-survey, it remains at $18.75 billion, and PCS told us that it is going to perform another re-survey in 60 days time to ensure […]

According to an announcement from reinsurance-linked investment manager CATCo Investment Management, the latest re-survey of hurricane Sandy loss estimates has now been completed and published by Property Claims Services (PCS). After hurricane, or superstorm, Sandy struck the U.S. northeast last year, PCS first reported the industry loss estimate as $11 billion in November, a number […]

The second estimate of hurricane Sandy insured losses has been released by Property Claims Services (PCS) this week. The first estimate of $11 billion which PCS reported in November has been increased by 70% to a new total of $18.75 billion. This number is very close to the total of reported loss estimates from insurers […]

The latest firm to publish a report reviewing the 2012 catastrophe bond market is Property Claims Services (PCS), a leading source of data on insured property losses from catastrophes in the U.S. and part of the Verisk group of companies. The report looks back at 2012 from PCS’ perspective and highlights the continuing use of […]

One of the most awaited numbers in the insurance, reinsurance, catastrophe bond and associated investment markets has been the insurance industry loss estimate from Property Claims Services (PCS) for hurricane Sandy.  Typically the first estimate from PCS is released around 30 days after the event and they’ve actually been quicker in the case of Sandy and […]

Property Claims Services (PCS), a leading source of data on insured property losses from catastrophes in the U.S. and part of the Verisk group of companies, have today published their latest quarterly update on the catastrophe bond market. The report takes a look at the market from PCS’ perspective and contains insight into the use […]