Catastrophe Risks

An A.M. Best briefing said most reinsurers will experience losses from Hurricane Florence due to the highly syndicated nature of property catastrophe business, and the potential exists for losses to impact alternative capacity on a reinsurance and retrocessional basis as its participation in the sector has increased year over year. Read More

As housing development has ramped up in more rural areas and wildlands in California, the resulting wildfire threat for insurers has continued to grow. For homeowners and farmowners writers in California, direct losses incurred nearly quadrupled to $16.0 billion in 2017, compared with $4.2 billion in 2016. Read More

Swiss Re said its preliminary sigma estimates surrounding global economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in the first half of 2018 were $36 billion. According to Swiss Re, this figure is well below the 10-year average of $125 billion in economic losses. Read More

The AON Reinsurance Solutions "Global Catastrophe Recap: First Half of 2018" report reveals that global economic losses from natural disasters for the first half of 2018 were estimated at $45 billion-64 percent lower than the 10-year average of $124 billion and 48 percent lower than the 18-year average of $87 billion. Read More

According to the latest first view report from Willis Re, titled "1st View New Normal Emerges," momentum for rate increases on loss-free reinsurance accounts dissipated during the June and July property catastrophe renewals, and, in some cases, pricing declined. Read More