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Flood

Brokers, Capital Markets, Catastrophe, Earthquake, Europe, Flood, Losses, Results, Windstorm

Debt crisis set to dominate market's thinking

Despite one of the most expensive years on record for the re/insurance industry, one expert believes the debt crisis is now the biggest threat.

Asia Pacific, Catastrophe, Earthquake, Flood, Losses

Lessons need to be learned says reinsurer

Munich Re’s head of global reinsurance has urged the market to learn the lessons of the past year the most expensive ever in terms of cat losses.

Asia Pacific, Catastrophe, Flood, Lloyd's, Losses, Run Off

Argenta announce closure of managed Asian syndicate

Singapore-based Lloyd’s Syndicate 1965 has become the latest victim of the regions catastrophe strewn year as it announced that it will no longer be accepting new business.

Asia Pacific, Catastrophe, Claims, Earthquake, Flood, Losses, Windstorm

Record loss year points to low insurance levels warns Swiss Re

Last year was the most expensive in history in terms of economic losses but the level of payments faced by global underwriters had highlighted the need for greater insurance penetration.

Asia Pacific, Catastrophe, Earthquake, Flood, Losses, Windstorm

Record cat loss year says Swiss Re

This year will go down as the most expensive in history for economic losses due to catastrophes according to preliminary estimates from Swiss Re’s sigma team...

Asia Pacific, Catastrophe, Earthquake, Flood, Losses, Risk Management, Technology, Windstorm

New China crop model launched at SIRC

The industry's first Multiple Peril Crop Insurance Model for China was released today at the 11th Singapore International Reinsurance Conference...

Asia Pacific, Catastrophe, Losses, Risk Management, Technology, Windstorm

Growing populations face impacts of climate change

A new mapping study has revealed some of the world’s fastest growing populations are increasingly at risk from the impacts of climate related natural hazards and sea level rise...

Asia Pacific, Catastrophe, Earthquake, Flood, Windstorm

All eyes on Asia as nat cat toll leaps in 2010

Swiss Re’s annual Sigma study into natural catastrophes has reported a significant rise in the economic and insured costs for major disasters in 2010. However there is a call for the booming emerging economies to direct greater amounts of funding to disaster mitigation and to drive the creation of insurance markets to meet the threat.

Asia Pacific, Catastrophe, Claims, Earthquake, Flood, Losses, Windstorm

Disasters Down Under

Insured losses from the Queensland floods and New Zealand earthquake combined will produce a number usually only seen in peak catastrophe zones. So is it time for re/insurers to re-evaluate their exposures Down Under?

Asia Pacific, Claims, Energy, Flood