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The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season continues to be forecast as likely to see a relatively significant amount of activity, with the latest forecast to be published from the UK Met Office calling for 18 named storms and 8 hurricanes to form.

Florida’s Legislature made progress on some of the property insurance reform bills that were heard by a committee yesterday, moving them on to the Senate, but the details underlying the reforms will matter for the reinsurance market and the prospects of meaningful change.

While the overall Bermudian reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is still in the early stages of its environmental, social and governance (ESG) journey but making steady progress, there is work to do on protection gap related issues, as the Bermuda market lags behind competitors, a new report suggests.

Driving home the seriousness of the situation in Florida’s property insurance market today, the sponsor of one of the bills being discussed at the special legislative session in Tallahassee said on the floor that some carriers in the state are “on life support.”

The calculation agent has now found that holders of the Philippines governments World Bank issued IBRD CAR 123-124 catastrophe bond do not face any loss of principal following the wind-related impacts of tropical storm Megi (locally known as storm Agaton), Artemis has learned.

Southern parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec have been hit by a line of severe thunderstorms, in a Derecho type event that has caused widespread and relatively significant damage across the region.

Industry contacts have been raising concerns over the weekend, that proposed property insurance related legislation set to be raised during Florida’s special session of the legislature this week will not go far enough on litigation and won’t do enough to bring reinsurance market confidence back to the state.

France headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR has raised the target size for its new Atlas Capital Reinsurance 2022 DAC (Series 2022-1) catastrophe bond to as much as $250 million, while the price guidance has been raised almost 12%.

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The global insurance and reinsurance market faces a range of challenges, but at the same time the opportunities for the sector and for the provision of efficient capital to absorb societal risks, is also expanding, with PwC estimating that the global protection gap may expand to US $1.86 trillion by 2025.