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- July 2 2025
As ‘bomb cyclone’ hits Australia’s NSW, 2025 losses top US$1.2bn
Coastal low weather system has led to damaging wind and heavy rainfall since Tuesday.
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- June 30 2025
Wild weather hits New Zealand, with ‘millions of dollars’ in damage from Nelson-Tasman rain, floods
IAG has received over 373 claims for home, contents, motor and commercial policies across Nelson, Tasman, Marlborough, Auckland, and other areas.
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- June 20 2025
Aggregated losses from typhoon Wutip could reach hundreds of millions of US dollars: Aon
Particularly significant economic and insured losses are expected due to widespread flooding in southern China.
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- June 19 2025
Wild weather claims surpass all of 2024 in just 5 months amid increasing severity, frequency: NRMA
Australian insurer says it received more than 32,000 wild weather-related damage claims in the first five months of 2025.
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- June 18 2025
New Zealand ‘cannot afford’ to continue down current path as climate risks grow: IAG
IAG's 2025 climate change poll showed New Zealanders expect insurers to reflect the growing risk in the premiums of people who are exposed to natural hazards.
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- June 17 2025
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred claims top 68,000, ARPC says, losses estimated at US$941m
Majority of claims received are for food spoilage and property damage due to severe winds, fallen trees, or water ingress in homes.
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- June 12 2025
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred insured losses down 12% from initial estimate: Perils
Darryl Pidcock, Perils' head of Asia Pacific and cyber, said the reduction was unusual compared to previous Australian events.
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- June 10 2025
India’s GIC Re proposes ‘parametric insurance’ umbrella: report
Country’s largest reinsurer is in talks with the central government to offer countrywide parametric cover.
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- June 9 2025
New Zealand’s Natural Hazards Commission secures US$6.3bn in reinsurance cover
The cover, renewed on June 1, includes NZ$225 million from a multi-year catastrophe bond issued in 2023.
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- June 5 2025
Australian insurers faced with US$1.9bn bill after triple whammy: JBA
February's north Queensland floods, ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, and the ongoing Mid North Coast and Hunter Regions floods in New South Wales have caused widespread damage.
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- June 3 2025
NSW floods claims top 8,700 as residents face ‘uncertain future’
Over 78% of claims are related to property, according to the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA).
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- May 30 2025
‘No protection’: 9 out of 10 farmers affected by NSW flood are uninsured
Insurers have received 7,383 claims related to floods as of Friday, according to the Insurance Council of Australia, although farmers are unable to obtain flood cover, according to an insurance adviser in one of the hardest-hit towns.
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- May 30 2025
Typhoons predicted to match 30-year average, but more intense hurricane season likely: Munich Re
In Northwest Pacific, an initial study estimates 25 named cyclones, 16 typhoons and nine severe typhoons in the highest 3–5 category in 2025.
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- May 29 2025
‘Recovery doesn’t happen overnight’: NSW floods claims top 7,000
Claims related to the Mid North Coast and Hunter Regions floods have risen to 7,014 on Thursday, up from 6,109 on Wednesday.
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- May 28 2025
NSW floods claims jump 20%, clean up and recovery expected to be long-term
Insurers have received more than 6,000 claims relating to the Mid North Coast and Hunter region floods as of Wednesday, according to the Insurance Council of Australia.
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- May 28 2025
With Australia, India and China inundated by record floods, voices swell to rewrite the nat cat lexicon
Floods in Australia have been widely described as a one-in-500-year event, but such categorisations are now being seen as harmful to the insurance industry.
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- May 27 2025
Insurance catastrophe declared as NSW floods claims near 5,000
Mid North Coast and Hunter flooding event has impacted communities since last week.
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- May 26 2025
‘If it’s flooded, forget it’: as deadly NSW floods recede, claims jump with 10,000 properties damaged
Insurers have received more than 4,100 claims as of Monday after rainfall and flooding hit the region last week.
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- May 26 2025
Scale, complexity of NSW floods prompt further scrutiny of climate risk models
Loss adjusters expect a high volume of diverse claims from the 'one-in-500-year' event across the Mid North Coast and Hunter regions of New South Wales in Australia.
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- May 22 2025
German insurer SV partners with Japan’s Zenkyoren to debut US$100m earthquake bond
The 3-year bond covers losses from Japan on an indemnity basis and across Germany on a parametric basis.
