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Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has issued an update to the loss estimates from severe thunderstorms and tornadoes which impacted the Mariah Re catastrophe bond transactions. As and when loss estimates are updated by Property Claims Services (PCS) for each catastrophe event, S&P have been updating the market on the potential impact to Mariah […]

You may recall that we wrote about Bermudian reinsurer PartnerRe’s losses from their insurance-linked security investments a number of times earlier this year. After some of the major catastrophes in the first half of 2011, PartnerRe disclosed the amount of losses they were facing from their ILS investment portfolio.

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has announced that the Mariah Re Ltd. Series 2010-1 catastrophe bond is suspected to have been triggered after its sponsor American Family Mutual Insurance Company submitted an event notice indicating that they believe the deal to have defaulted as losses have breached the attachment point.

As we wrote yesterday, the Mariah Re catastrophe bonds were the main losers in the secondary market during the month of September as mark to market losses increased due to the realisation that there would be a loss of investor principal for the Series 2010-2 notes and covered losses were still rising for the Series […]

We wrote earlier today about the increase in covered losses faced by the Mariah Re 2010-1 series of catastrophe bond notes after Standard & Poor’s updated the covered loss totals and downgraded the bond. Readers who’ve been keeping track of the fate of Mariah Re will be aware that there is a second transaction with […]

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s have published an update regarding the fate of the Mariah Re Ltd. Series 2010-1 severe thunderstorm catastrophe bond which provides American Family Mutual Insurance with a source of collateralized reinsurance cover. The cat bond has been at risk due to the extreme nature of the tornado season in the U.S. […]

Yesterday we updated you with the news that ratings agency Standard & Poor’s had updated the covered loss totals for the Mariah Re Ltd. Series 2010-1 catastrophe bond transaction. The losses have been mounting from the severe tornado season in the U.S. and the holders of the $100m of Series 2010-1 notes are now just […]

Yesterday we wrote about Standard & Poor’s recent update on the status of covered losses under the terms of the Mariah Re Ltd. Series 2010-1 severe thunderstorm catastrophe bond. The cat bond has been accumulating losses from the severe spate of thunderstorms and tornadoes which affected the U.S. over the last few months. The figure […]

The impact of the record-breaking U.S. severe thunderstorm and tornado season on exposed catastrophe bond Mariah Re Ltd. Series 2010-1 is a little clearer after ratings agency Standard & Poor’s published an update on the amount of losses that have qualified under the terms of the aggregate cat bond. Losses have been mounting over the […]

Risk modelling firm EQECAT have published a summary of the tornado and severe thunderstorm activity in the U.S. for the first half of 2011. You can access the full report, Summary of US Convective Storm Activity for First Half of 2011, from our CatWatch page.