Reinsurance News
News related to flood insurance and reinsurance, including: new products and market innovation; flood insurance market loss events; companies underwriting flood insurance or reinsurance; public flood insurance through the NFIP; and the expanding availability of private market flood coverage.
2nd March 2021
Global reinsurer Swiss Re has advanced its natural catastrophe services via a new strategic partnership with ICEYE, the world's largest commercial synthetic-aperture Radar (SAR) satellite operator and flood monitoring provider. Building on ICEYE's technology, the new partnership aims to advance flood risk management, assist disaster response and speed up claims payments ... Read the full article
1st March 2021
Zurich-based catastrophe insurance data provider PERILS has placed a £368 million final industry loss estimate of the flooding that took place across the UK during February 2020. The floods primarily affected Wales and the Midlands and Yorkshire in England between 9 and 29 February 2020. PERILS’ estimate is based on claims data ... Read the full article
26th February 2021
The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has transferred an additional $575 million of the National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) flood risk to the capital markets through the sponsor of its fourth catastrophe bond transaction. FloodSmart Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) is FEMA's fourth and largest catastrophe bond transaction, providing $575 ... Read the full article
10th February 2021
Data supplier WhenFresh has partnered with Ambiental Risk Analytics, a specialist in environmental hazard intelligence, predictive analytics and risk management, to make Ambiental’s flood risk data available to UK re/insurers. WhenFresh already supplies data to many leading UK insurers, but will now be able to provide access to Ambiental’s UK FloodMap ... Read the full article
8th February 2021
State-backed reinsurance scheme Flood Re has welcomed a report published by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee, which calls for clear flood-resilience targets. It explored different measures to help tackle flooding, which include continuing investment in new and maintenance of existing flood defences, as well as improvements in ... Read the full article
1st February 2021
ShoreOne, a new Massachusetts-based managing general agent, has announced its launch, combining traditional homeowners insurance with full flood coverage in a single policy. Its combined policy has been described as capable of filling the coverage gap affecting 4.8 million National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders. ShoreOne will start in South Carolina, a ... Read the full article
1st February 2021
State-backed reinsurance scheme Flood Re has welcomed proposals from the UK government to provide additional support for flood resilience measures which will ultimately assist in Flood Re's transition out of the market in the future. In July of 2019, Flood Re's Quinquennial Review proposed a range of changes designed to ... Read the full article
25th January 2021
Parametric insurtech firm FloodFlash has issued pay-outs to policyholders affected by flooding from Storm Christoph, in many cases on the same day as the flooding occurred. The fastest claims took just 9 hours and 44 minutes from the property flooding to the client receiving the full settlement in their account, which ... Read the full article
22nd January 2021
Analysts at PwC have estimated that insurance industry losses from Storm Christoph in the UK will likely total between £80 million and £120 million. Christoph brought widespread flooding across England and Wales this week, prompting evacuations from a “large number” of homes in South Wales. About 2,000 homes in the Didsbury and ... Read the full article
5th January 2021
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has secured $1.153 billion of flood reinsurance for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for 2021, at a premium of $195.8 million. It was announced in September of 2020 that FEMA had returned to the traditional reinsurance market and commenced the procurement of ... Read the full article
18th December 2020
The General Insurance Association of Japan (GIAJ) has released new data relating to the Kyushu floods and Typhoon Haishen that impacted Japan earlier this year, showing combined re/insurance industry losses to be around US $1.7 billion. The southern Japanese island of Kyushu experienced record-breaking heavy rain in the prefectures of Kumamoto ... Read the full article
10th December 2020
New research released from government-backed reinsurer Flood Re shows an overwhelming majority of prospective home movers are backing the introduction of a Flood Performance Certificate. Much like an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), the Flood Performance Certificate would provide prospective buyers and renters with a clear overview of the flood risk posed ... Read the full article
10th November 2020
Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance arm of global brokerage Marsh, has announced the launch of its new flood model for Vietnam. The probabilistic model will provide full national coverage and help re/insurers to assess their exposure to floods – a peril that affects 70% of the population in Vietnam. The Guy Carpenter Vietnam ... Read the full article
10th November 2020
Live flood forecasting insurtech firm Previsico has announced that it will join the Launch Innovation Lab, powered by Lloyds Banking Group, to develop solutions for flood resilience. Together, Previsico and Lloyds will work to develop a solution for Lloyds home insurance customers, against a backdrop of increasingly severe and frequent flood ... Read the full article
6th November 2020
Flood Re, the UK’s government-backed reinsurance scheme, has welcomed the key findings of a review into a 2019 flooding disaster, which recommends that all homeowners policies should include flood cover as standard. The Blanc review, commissioned by the UK government back in April, sought to investigate why many of the ... Read the full article
