Excess Capacity Continues to Drive Rate Cuts at June Renewals: JLT Re Report June 5, 2017 Reinsurance rates fell for the sixth consecutive year at the June 1, 2017 renewals, according to a market commentary published...
Lloyd’s Reports £2.1B ($2.6B) Profit for 2016, Unchanged from 2015 March 30, 2017 Lloyd’s reported 2016 pretax profit of £2.1 billion pounds ($2.6 billion), level with 2015, despite a worsening of the market’s...
Canada’s 2016 Nat Cats Bring Record Insured Damages of $3.7B January 6, 2017 Insured damages from Canadian natural catastrophes during 2016 topped C$4.9 billion (US$3.7 billion) – smashing the previous annual record of...
Insured Cat Losses in 2016 Totaled $49B, with $158B of Economic Costs: Swiss Re December 15, 2016 More than 10,000 people died as a result of natural and man-made disasters during 2016, with financial losses totaling at...
Slow Pace of Insurance Payouts, Rebuilding Angers Alberta Wildfire Victims October 18, 2016 By Nia Williams Some five months after the wildfires that devastated Fort McMurray were extinguished, anger over red tape and the slow pace...
Lloyd’s to Move Some Business to EU if UK Loses Post-Brexit Passporting September 22, 2016 By Carolyn Cohn The Lloyd’s of London insurance market is already working on plans to move some business to the European Union, aiming...
Soft Prices May Bring Reinsurer Losses when Typical Cat Levels Return: Execs August 23, 2016 By Oliver Suess and Jan-Henrik Förster It won’t take another Hurricane Katrina for reinsurers to face losses from covering the cost of storms and earthquakes. Competitors...
Natural Catastrophes Drive Global Insured Losses to $31B in H1: Swiss Re’s Sigma August 18, 2016 Global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters during the first half of 2016 reached US$31 billion, or 44...
Just 2% of China’s July Floods Covered by Insurance, vs. Nearly 70% in U.S.: Aon August 5, 2016 China’s seasonal “Mei-Yu” rainfall in July led to the worst flooding since 1998, bringing total combined economic losses of an...
Allianz Q2 Profit Drops 46% on Nat Cat Claims, Expected Sale of South Korea Unit August 5, 2016 By Oliver Suess Allianz SE said second-quarter profit almost halved, missing estimates, as Europe’s biggest insurer faced higher claims from natural disasters and...