Industry Segments: Claims Page 14 / 41
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- November 1 2022
Perils decreases loss estimate for October 2021 Southern Australia storms
The final loss figure is US$621m, down from US$650m.
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- October 31 2022
Tropical Storm Nalgae wreaks havoc in the Philippines
Multiple buildings, crops, bridges and roads destroyed as storm continues in the South China Sea.
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- October 25 2022
Analytics: APAC nat cat damage 43% below average for H1
Flooding in Australia/China and an earthquake in Japan accounted for nearly half of these losses.
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- October 25 2022
ICA estimates 9,251 insurance claims from ongoing floods
Record property damage, road, public infrastructure and sheer volume of water, likely says Victoria’s premier as rains continue.
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- October 19 2022
ICA escalates Australia floods to ‘insurance catastrophe’
Insurers have received 6,350 claims from across Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania.
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- October 19 2022
Ongoing Australian floods unlikely to trigger reinsurance cover: S&P
Insurers will be largely able to finance the claims themselves, though there are more flood warnings as rain and thunderstorms spread to other states.
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- October 17 2022
Latest Australian floods declared ‘significant event’ by ICA
Suncorp said it received about 1,000 claims in total, mostly from Victoria, and that it expects the numbers to increase in the coming days.
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- October 14 2022
New Zealand’s August ‘weather bomb’ cost US$27m: ICNZ
Heavy rains in the South Island resulted in 3,165 general insurance claims.
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- October 12 2022
Kakao Pay kick-starts insurance arm with cyber launch: report
The product is expected to shorten the time it takes to pay claims for online financial fraud by over two months.
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- October 3 2022
Hong Kong GI underwriting profits plunged 42% in 2021: HKIA
The reinsurance business' results grew 38% last year driven by a turn around in the proportional treaty business.
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- October 3 2022
Analytics: Asian cat losses up 145% since 2017
Models show that (re)insurers should expect even higher losses as exposures rise, according to data provider Verisk.
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- September 30 2022
Nanmadol insured losses could hit US$6bn
Japanese cat bond issuers are under scrutiny as losses will likely attach some higher-risk reinsurance layers.
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- September 29 2022
Opinion: Australia’s natural disaster fund far from ‘ready’
The US$135m federal government funding should be matched and cross-country coordination improved, as the ICA demands.
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- September 29 2022
Optus cyber loss expected to breach US$1bn
Australian cyber carriers brace for a major hit with potentially multiple insurance payouts as law firms prepare class action suits.
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- September 28 2022
Typhoon Noru rips through South-East Asia as it moves to Thailand via Laos
After slamming the Philippines and Vietnam, the tropical storm is expected cause flooding along the Mekong river.
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- September 28 2022
Risk pools no panacea for Asia’s secondary peril threat
(Re)insurers need to improve risk selection and underwriting to cope with models that don’t have the same predictive power.
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- September 26 2022
Hong Kong High Court orders wind-up of Target Insurance
All the in-force policies issued by the taxi insurer are unaffected by the winding-up order, the HKIA said.
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- September 26 2022
Typhoon Noru threatens World Bank cat bond default: Plenum
Hundreds of hectares of rice fields and banana crops were destroyed in the Philippines, with the cyclone threatening Vietnam's coffee crop.
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- September 26 2022
Exclusive: Korean carriers DB, Samsung and Hyundai on the hook for Posco’s huge typhoon claims
DB Insurance provided the largest coverage to the steelmaker with around 17% exposure of the risk pool.
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- September 23 2022
Market braces for Nanmadol loss creep
Secondary perils could play a major role after mid-single digit billion loss estimates.
