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US primary insurer Allstate has lifted the top of its main occurrence Nationwide Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Program to a new high of $9.5 billion at its recent renewal, with catastrophe bond coverage a growing component, while its retention has also increased to now $1 billion across the tower.

US primary insurer Allstate has disclosed that a heavy March catastrophe loss burden means it now anticipates making $123 million of reinsurance recoveries from its aggregate tower, whose coverage is solely provided by catastrophe bonds from the Sanders Re program.

Allstate reported a relatively low level of catastrophe losses for February, meaning qualifying losses under its aggregate Sanders Re catastrophe bonds remain a reasonable distance from attachment ponts, we are told, so with the annual risk period nearing its end these notes are now being viewed as safer, according to sources.

US primary insurance carrier Allstate has added another $227 million of pre-tax catastrophe losses for the month of July 2021, which is much higher than the prior year’s $145 million.

Catastrophe bond losses continue to affect investors in the $300 million Sanders Re II 2019-1 cat bond transaction sponsored by US primary insurance giant Allstate, as loss creep from US winter storm Uri and Texas freeze continued to erode the notes remaining principal in the second-quarter.

US primary insurance carrier Allstate reported another $195 million of pre-tax catastrophe losses for the month of June, including some loss creep on prior period events, taking its pre-tax total for the second-quarter of the year to around $952 million.

US primary insurance carrier Allstate has reported $213 million of estimated pre-tax catastrophe losses for the month of May 2021, which takes the insurers second-quarter total to $757 million before tax.

US primary insurance carrier Allstate has reported $544 million of net catastrophe losses, largely caused by April’s severe US convective weather and hail storms, as well as some loss creep on previous events.

US primary insurance giant Allstate has reported that its losses from the first-quarter winter storms and freezing weather have now enabled it to recover $195 million from the reinsurance provided by its Sanders Re II 2019-1 cat bond.

US primary insurer Allstate revealed today that its catastrophe losses, before reinsurance, subrogation recoveries and taxes totalled $1.67 billion for the first-quarter of 2021, a significant proportion of which will be offset by recoveries under reinsurance and also its Sanders catastrophe bonds, it seems.