severe thunderstorm

Back in July we wrote about the downgrade of two outstanding catastrophe bonds due to a number of qualifying catastrophe events resulting in ultimate net losses for the sponsor USAA. Residential Reinsurance 2011 Ltd. (Series 2011-1) and the more recent Residential Reinsurance 2012 Ltd. (Series 2012-1), both suffered losses due to severe thunderstorms and tornadoes […]

The Missouri Department of Insurance have put new regulation in place which will require the states mutual insurers to take on more reinsurance cover to shore up their financial stability. The regulation has been prompted as a way to preemptively stop a similar run on the mutuals finances such as what happened after the deadly […]

The U.S. severe thunderstorm season of 2012 has begun to impact the catastrophe bond market as two catastrophe events have resulted in qualifying ultimate net losses for two of USAA’s Residential Reinsurance cat bond deals. According to ratings agency Standard & Poor’s two specific outbreaks of severe thunderstorm and tornadic weather have qualified under the […]

Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield has released its June Global Catastrophe Recap report today and the data shows that severe weather in the U.S. last month is likely to result in around $2 billion of insurance losses. That’s just at the latest estimates and there are a number of events which are likely to see increases […]

Every so often on Artemis we write about hail and the sizeable insurance losses severe hailstorms can inflict particularly in the U.S. Another example of this has been highlighted after a day of hail storms in Texas on the 13th June caused severe losses to auto and property lines of business. Hail is an interesting […]

Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield’s latest Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during March, highlights the growing losses that the reinsurance industry will face from the U.S. tornado season in 2012. The season has got off to an above average start again and the number of tornadoes to be […]

The above average start to the U.S. tornado season has continued to trend well above the long term historical averages. With insured losses from some recent outbreaks said to be as high as $2 billion and 269 recorded tornado touchdowns (as at 17th March) versus a 50th percentile average of 102 on that date, it’s […]

A couple of days ago we wrote about the higher than average incidence of tornadoes in the U.S. this year. Now the first estimate of insured losses for the recent outbreak of tornadoes in the U.S. midwest and southern states has come from risk modelling firm EQECAT. The recent spate of tornadoes saw almost a […]

Insurers and reinsurers are understandably nervous about the recent outbreak of tornadoes. Last year tornadoes caused in excess of $26 billion of economic losses and killed hundreds of people. Of course they also caused the default of the two Mariah Re catastrophe bonds. Now we seem to be beginning another extremely active tornado year, but […]

Weather forecaster Accuweather is predicting another above-average U.S. tornado season for 2012. Last year saw a near record number of tornadoes over the course of the season, with 2011 seeing 1,709 officially recorded tornadoes which was just short of the record of 1,817. The average for the last decade is only 1,300. 2011 also ranks […]