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- October 10 2025
Mounting hail and flood losses raise alarm for APAC (re)insurers
Shifting risk landscape and growing cat exposures highlight the need for alternative sources of capital in Asia, says Perils' Darryl Pidcock.
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- September 12 2025
Perils cuts Cyclone Alfred loss estimate to US$1.25bn
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Afred struck Australia's Southeast Queensland and northeastern New South Wales in February and March, leaving over 300,000 homes and businesses without power.
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- August 28 2025
Perils expands real-time insurance industry loss forecasts to Japanese typhoons
Wind-Jeannie platform 'provides a welcome new perspective,' Perils' Japan representative Takashi Goda says.
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- July 31 2025
Perils expands SCS coverage to Japan, New Zealand
New service will capture SCS industry losses above JPY100bn and NZD300m as of August 1.
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- April 23 2025
Cyclone Alfred insured losses touch US$1.64bn, Perils says, higher than ARPC
In March, Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC) estimated total losses covered by the Cyclone Reinsurance Pool were approximately AU$1.7 billion.
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- January 2 2025
2024 ‘the year of the floods’, Cresta says, as 8 cat events top US$1bn
Noto earthquake in Japan in January last year only event in Asia to meet US$1bn threshold, according to the industry loss data provider.
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- December 20 2024
Final Australia Christmas storms losses top US$1bn: Perils
Acute storms hit states of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland in December 2023, with property accounting for 89% of the total industry loss.
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- November 7 2024
Growing demand for comprehensive loss data as natural disasters increase: Perils
As insurance penetration grows, there is a need to better understand the insured exposures and vulnerabilities in these regions, says Perils’ Darryl Pidcock.
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- September 26 2024
Better cat data key to easing region’s growing capacity pressures: Perils’ APAC head
As insurance penetration and cat exposure rise in APAC, the availability of better quality data must go hand-in-hand with the growth of alternative capital sources. That leads the cat loss specialist to expand its loss data coverage in Japan & South-East Asia, said Darryl Pidcock.
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- July 2 2024
Japan hailstorm stands as only billion-dollar Asia nat cat event in Q2: Cresta
Together with Japan’s Noto earthquake, the world's nat cat events with billion-dollar insured loss totalled four in the first half of 2024.
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- July 1 2024
Third loss estimate for Australia Christmas storms exceeds US$1bn: Perils
The bulk of the loss was incurred by personal lines property losses, followed by commercial lines property and motor losses.
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- February 2 2024
Perils raises Auckland floods insured loss estimate to NZ$2.2bn
Nearly 70% of the property loss was from personal lines, according to the loss aggregator's final tally, which is 12% higher than its August 2023 estimate.
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- September 20 2023
Typhoon Nanmadol’s final loss count is US$850m: Perils
The storm hit the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku and the western and central regions of Japan’s main island of Honshu in September last year.
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- May 17 2023
Cyclone Gabrielle losses climb to US$1.2bn: Perils
New Zealand has experienced nearly US$2.3bn of insured losses this year from two events, the loss data aggregator said.
