Reinsurance News
5th April 2019
According to A.M. Best, the “vast majority” of the damages to property from the ongoing flooding in Nebraska and other states along the Missouri River, which is expected to exceed $3 billion, will be uninsured. The Midwestern U.S has experienced major floods since mid-March 2019, partly caused by a blizzard early ... Read the full article
4th April 2019
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has expressed its frustration at the lack of preventative measures the country's government has adopted to tackle the economical and societal impacts of natural catastrophe events. In the aftermath of severe flooding in the Townsville and Queensland areas of Australia, which resulted in billions of ... Read the full article
21st March 2019
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has returned to the capital markets as it looks to transfer $300 million of risk from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). FEMA is seeking at least $300 million of collateralised reinsurance protection from insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors through its second catastrophe bond transaction ... Read the full article
20th March 2019
The Insurance Council of Australia’s updated industry loss estimate for the flooding in Townsville, Queensland has hit AU$1.04 billion (US$737.4 million), an increase of AU$434 million from a month ago. ICA Chief Executive Officer Rob Whelan said insurers have so far received 25,778 claims, with around 90% of those consisting of ... Read the full article
19th March 2019
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a move that could increase costs for some homeowners, reports Bloomberg. Under the new initiative, called Risk Rating 2.0, NFIP premiums will be tied to the actual flood risk of individual homes, instead of the ... Read the full article
18th March 2019
Much of Nebraska remains submerged as the state’s emergency services attempt to cope with the worst flooding seen in 50 years. The floods are a direct result of last week’s “bomb cyclone”, which saw hurricane force winds, tornadoes, flooding and heavy snow sweep through various parts of the American Midwest. Nebraska Governor ... Read the full article
7th March 2019
The re/insurance industry is expected to incur losses of AUD $893 million (USD $635 million) as a result of the widespread flooding that affected Australia’s North Queensland from January 26 to February 7, according to Aon’s Impact Forecasting team. The estimate came as part of Aon’s monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, ... Read the full article
1st March 2019
A state of emergency has been declared after days of unrelenting rainfall from a severe winter storm flooded more than 2,000 homes and businesses across two towns in California’s Sonoma County. The towns of Monte Rio and Guerneville, about 70 miles north of San Francisco, were surrounded by floodwaters after the ... Read the full article
26th February 2019
Insurdata, in collaboration with speciality insurer and reinsurer Canopius, flood risk modeller Fathom and ModEx, a catastrophe risk modelling platform from Simplitium, has released the findings of a new flood data survey that focuses on altered risk profiles in light of augmented property exposure data. The report highlights a number of ... Read the full article
20th February 2019
Simplitium, a provider of risk analysis services, has announced that the Sri Lanka Flood Model from global flood risk modeller JBA Risk Management is to be delivered on its multi-vendor ModEx platform. It’s hoped the move will broaden accessibility of the Sri Lanka model for both insurers and the wider Disaster ... Read the full article
15th February 2019
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has recorded 15,571 insurance claims from the flooding in Townsville, Queensland so far, with current industry losses estimated to be around AUD $606 million (US $429 million). Rob Whelan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the ICA, today briefed the Queensland Deputy Premier on the re/insurance ... Read the full article
14th February 2019
Australian primary insurer Suncorp Group has revealed that catastrophe losses resulting from the recent flooding in the city of Townsville, Queensland have triggered its Natural Hazards Aggregate Protection (NHAP) reinsurance program. The company explained that, while it is still too early to estimate the gross costs of the flooding, its losses ... Read the full article
12th February 2019
Damages from the torrential rainfall and flooding in the Australian city of Townsville, Queensland are expected to trigger reinsurance protection for some exposed insurers, according to reports from the Courier Mail. The latest data from the Insurance Council of Australia shows that 14,600 insurance claims have been lodged as of Tuesday ... Read the full article
11th February 2019
Insurance companies have now received 13,560 claims, amounting to losses of an estimated AUD 165 million (USD 117mn), in relation to the torrential rainfall and flooding in the City of Townsville, Queensland, according to data from the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA). The latest figures are as of 10am local time, and the ... Read the full article
8th February 2019
Widespread torrential rainfall and flooding in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia, has so far resulted in 11,800 insurance claims, amounting to roughly AUD 147 million in losses, according to local media reports citing the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA). The ICA declared the event a catastrophe earlier this week, after the coastal ... Read the full article
