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- March 28 2025
7.7-magnitude earthquake rocks Myanmar, leads to road and property damage in Bangkok
Earthquake also shook buildings and triggered evacuations in neighbouring Vietnam and southwest Yunnan province in China.
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- March 28 2025
With floods high on the list of perils in Asia, modeller gets its feet wet into China and Australia
JBA has announced a partnership with China’s Ping An Insurance and has also launched a new comprehensive Australian inland flood model.
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- March 27 2025
‘Damages snowballing’ as Korea’s worst-ever wildfire rages on
The fire in the country's southeastern Gyeongsang province has burned through more than 36,000 hectares as death toll rose to 27, destroyed hundreds of structures and affected multiple cities and towns.
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- March 25 2025
Cyclone Alfred losses estimated at US$1b: ARPC
Total cyclone pool coverage period for ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred was close to 10 days at 237.5 hours, according to the Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC).
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- March 21 2025
Despite Typhoon Yagi losses, Hanoi Re to maintain strong capital buffers: AM Best
Global rating agency affirms insurer rating of B++ (good) for the reinsurer, with a stable outlook.
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- March 20 2025
Cyclone Alfred claims top 74,000, insurer extends pet coverage
Queensland remains the most affected area, with about 69,000 claims following the event earlier this month.
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- March 19 2025
Malaysia’s flood losses up 23.5% to US$207.5m in 2024: report
Losses, which equate to about 0.05% of the country’s nominal GDP, were mostly from home, while commercial losses were nearly flat year-on-year
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- March 18 2025
Cyclone Alfred insured losses to reach US$1.6bn, flood modeller predicts
JBA says 'previous concerns about a high number of severe wind damage claims were not realised' following the event earlier this month.
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- March 17 2025
Cyclone Alfred claims top 63,000, but event ‘not as significant as first feared’
Insurance Council of Australia also releases its Industry Action Plan, which outlines the industry’s position on the remaining recommendations from the Parliamentary Flood Inquiry and the independent review of the industry’s Code of Practice.
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- March 14 2025
Queensland flood insured losses reach US$103m
Insurers have received more than 7,600 claims following the severe weather and flooding earlier this month, according to the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA).
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- March 13 2025
Cyclone Alfred claims top 44,000, road to recovery expected to be long
Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) CEO Andrew Hall also seeks to 'push past politicking around insurers and insurance companies'.
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- March 12 2025
Cyclone Alfred payouts top US$1.5m as claims surge 50%
Economic and insured loss impacts expected to reach 'at least into the hundreds of millions', according to Aon.
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- March 12 2025
Opinion: As APAC’s nat cat bill rises along with the nerves of insurers, is it time for governments to lend a hand?
Commercial (re)insurance market across Asia-Pacific faces an increasing severity and frequency of climate-related risks, which are seen as the defining challenge of our time, with stakes particularly high for the region.
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- March 11 2025
Cyclone Alfred claims ‘spike’ to over 22,000 as clean-up begins
Majority from Queensland, according to the Insurance Council of Australia, with claims from New South Wales set to increase in coming days.
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- March 11 2025
‘Significant’ claims in the thousands expected from Cyclone Alfred, could add to premium pressure despite downgrade
Impact zone of 'wide-ranging event' spans over 500km, covering heavily populated areas between southeast Queensland and parts of northern New South Wales, with over 9,000 claims already lodged.
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- March 11 2025
PCRIC makes US$45,000 parametric payout on coral reef cover in Cyclone Rae aftermath
Payment to an NGO in Fiji will be used for reef clean-up and restoration activities and community livelihood support hit by the tropical cyclone.
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- March 9 2025
Cyclone Alfred claims top 3,000, thousands more expected in coming days
ICA declares insurance catastrophe as flash flooding, thunderstorm warnings remain with remnants of the ex-cyclone moving inland.
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- March 6 2025
Greater Jakarta floods submerge houses, malls and shut factories
Widespread damage to transportation, hospitals, commercial areas, warehouses, offices, and thousands of houses reported, according to McLarens.
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- March 6 2025
Storm in a teacup? Market divided over underwriting solar risk for ‘unprepared world’
Modelled impact for Asia Pacific from a sudden and intense burst of radiation and energetic particles from the Sun is pegged at US$375bn and US$428bn for greater China.
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- March 5 2025
Cyclone Alfred could be US$1.25bn hit on Australian insurers: S&P Global
Cyclone could be worse than some of Australia's largest nat cats in the past 10 years.
