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.
9th June 2017
The upcoming reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has created a flurry of renewed interest in U.S. flood reinsurance, but with social and political uncertainties and the nature of flood risk itself remaining as significant obstacles, what kind of market growth is realistic for the foreseeable future? In a recent ... Read the full article
7th June 2017
The National Insurance Trust Fund (NITF) of Sri Lanka's failure to sign reinsurance arrangements that lapsed around two months ago means the organisation will have to use its own funds to pay compensation for property damage from recent flooding and landslides in the country. Reports from the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) claim ... Read the full article
26th May 2017
While losses will cause a hit to insurers, the recent flooding that impacted parts of Canada in the provinces of Quebec, Northern Ontario and British Columbia is not anticipated to hurt reinsurers or affect reinsurance protection. Rating agency Standard & Poor's says that preliminary estimates put economic losses from the flooding ... Read the full article
18th May 2017
International reinsurance brokerage, Guy Carpenter, recently held a forum in Berlin, Germany that underlined the importance of utilising efficient and effective re/insurance capacity and solutions to improve flood risk management, one of the world's most costly perils. Flood risk is one of the world's most advancing and evolving perils, driving high ... Read the full article
16th May 2017
Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario, and the Canadian Maritimes were hit with severe floods after persistent, heavy rainfall combined with snowmelt, causing rivers and lakes in the region to swell. Losses are expected to be felt in the millions of dollars (USD), but it's too early to call industry ... Read the full article
18th April 2017
U.S. Senator for Nevada Dean Heller has called on his fellow Senators to consider legislation that would enable the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to cede more of its risk to global reinsurers. In a letter to the Chair and a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, ... Read the full article
11th April 2017
With climate change ramping up the heat on emerging markets already vulnerable to natural disaster risk, the highly urbanised but marginally protected Latin America appears poised for increased economic and social fallout - if the region fails to develop improved risk mitigation solutions. Martyn Parker, Chairman of Swiss Re Global Partnerships, ... Read the full article
11th April 2017
Property insurer FM Global has created an innovative map to give businesses a comprehensive overview of flood exposure after recent years have shown flooding to consistently be the costliest overall peril globally. Flooding accounted for $62 billion in economic losses last year according to Aon estimates - in response to ... Read the full article
23rd March 2017
Property and casualty insurance holding company, Kingstone Company, Inc., has received necessary approval for its innovative voluntary flood solution for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) X-Zone residents in New York State, the company has announced. It's believed that this is the first voluntary flood solution in New York State, and enables NFIP X-Zone ... Read the full article
21st March 2017
The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) is aiming to expand the availability of flood insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in flood risk areas not served by the government-backed Flood Re initiative, via a new commercial scheme that could increase the need for reinsurance protection. Executive Director of BIBA, Graeme ... Read the full article
20th March 2017
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official, Roy Wright, has underlined a need to expand flood insurance protection across the U.S., supported by the multi-year reauthorisation of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and growing interest for participation from insurers and reinsurers. Addressing the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs ... Read the full article
20th March 2017
Reinsurance brokerage and advisory JLT Re has partnered with KatRisk, a specialist flood risk modeller, to help it bring enhanced flood risk modeling capabilities to its client base. KatRisk is a specialist in the flood risk model space, with tools offering flood inundation maps at multiple return periods as well as ... Read the full article
16th March 2017
President Donald Trump's first proposed budget includes a measure that would scrap all funding for the National Flood Insurance Program's Flood Hazard Mapping Program. The Flood Hazard Mapping Program sees the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) working to identify flood hazards, assess flood risks and work alongside states and communities to ... Read the full article
13th March 2017
The Housing and Insurance Subcommittee met recently to discuss the state of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and potential reforms, including the opportunity for the private sector to develop an effective private flood risk insurance market. The development of a private flood risk insurance and reinsurance market in the U.S. ... Read the full article
9th March 2017
Bermudian insurance and reinsurance company Validus Group has said that after analysing the National Flood Insurance Program's risk profile, the re/insurer deems that it would underwrite as much of 15% of the risk on its own balance-sheet. It's a clear indication that the private insurance and reinsurance market is ready and ... Read the full article
