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- September 17 2025
Flood Re 2.0? Australia looks to UK’s blueprint to tackle rising nat cat exposures
Assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Daniel Mulino and Insurance Council of Australia CEO Andrew Hall are in London discussing greater resilience to emerging disasters and natural catastrophe risks.
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- September 15 2025
Climate change puts 1.5m Australians at dire risk, warns first climate risk assessment
Australians living in high-risk communities face increasing costs as a result of rising insurance premiums, with widening protection gaps as many areas become uninsurable, according to a governement report.
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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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- September 10 2025
Wind tops weather risks for Australians after stormy winter: IAG
Few protect their property despite Australia having 'some of the strongest and most variable winds in the world', according to a poll from IAG's NRMA Insurance.
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- September 5 2025
Australian carriers’ US$1.6bn reinsurance spend saves US$46bn in capital: Actuaries Institute
A paper published by the institute noted Australian insurers have fewer choices when it comes to the range of reinsurance products they can use to gain regulatory credit.
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- September 4 2025
Typhoon Wipha, flooding unlocks US$2m Seadrif parametric payout in Laos
Payout was made under the new sovereign parametric insurance policy issued by the Asian risk pool in May, which features an annual aggregate trigger.
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- September 2 2025
‘Fundamental shift’ in risk landscape as average annual losses rise to US$152bn: Verisk
Frequency perils are driving sustained, high-impact losses across geographie and insurers must evolve their strategies to meet this challenge head-on.
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- August 29 2025
Parametric insurance must simplify to boost public sector adoption: Seadrif’s Benedikt Signer
Executive director of the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility outlines its mission to enhance insurance adoption in public sectors by simplifying product design and addressing market gaps.
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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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- August 27 2025
Hanoi flooding from Typhoon Kajiki expected to result in limited commercial claims
While the windstorm has caused significant damage, it did not hit the industrial areas, unlike Typhoon Yagi last year.
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- August 25 2025
Vietnam braces for Typhoon Kajiki, but losses set to be less than Yagi
PVI Insurance chairman Duong Thanh Danh says the typhoon is forecast to hit areas that are less industrialised than those affected by Typhoon Yagi last year.
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- August 21 2025
Favourable rating environment to persist for Australian insurance buyers: Marsh
Property premium decreases in Australia have outpaced every other region globally as clients benefit from intense competition and improving loss ratios.
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- August 13 2025
US-Japan nat cat double whammy warning sends ripples through the market
Scientific studies suggest global cyclones could be more closely linked than previously thought.
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- August 7 2025
Losses from Hong Kong’s record-breaking rainfall less widespread than 2023 black rainstorm: Sedgwick
Claims from Tuesday's downpour are expected to arise from damage to cars, facilities in buildings, hospitals, warehouses, resorts, theme parks, and construction sites, according to Alex Tang, director at Sedgwick Hong Kong.
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- August 6 2025
Heavy rain, floods, landslides leave insurers counting losses across Hong Kong, China, India
Torrential rain this week caused substantial damage and disruptions.
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- August 6 2025
‘Fraught with uncertainty’, Swiss Re sees 2025 nat cat losses exceeding US$150bn
Wildfires and thunderstorms drove an exceptionally busy first half for natural catastrophe losses, according to the Swiss Re institute.
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- August 5 2025
Beijing flood losses to be ‘substantial’ as region braces for more rain
Insurers have received 65,000 reports of losses following last month's extreme rain, with an estimated insured loss of US$277m, according to regulatory data.
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- August 4 2025
Floods, strong winds, snow, hail cause havoc as wild weather hits across parts of Australia
More than 21,000 people were left without power in New South Wales' Hunter Valley, while 20,000 Perth homes were without power following severe storms.
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- August 1 2025
Opinion: After Russia earthquake scare, is Japan’s resurgent nuclear industry really prepared for the ‘Big One’?
8.8-magnitude earthquake which struck off Russia's far eastern coast on Wednesday triggered tsunami warnings across Japan and the wider Pacific region.
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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.
