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- February 10 2026
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Mitchell downgraded after crossing Western Australia coast
It is the seventh cyclone of Australia’s storm season after tropical cyclones Fina, Grant, Hayley, Jenna, Koji and Luana.
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- February 8 2026
ARPC declares cyclone event as Tropical Cyclone Mitchell tracks along Western Australia coast
Mitchell has been lowered to category 2 intensity as of 5:00pm Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) on Sunday, with sustained winds near the centre of 110km/h and wind gusts of 155 km/h.
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- February 4 2026
New Zealand launches review into soaring home insurance costs
ICNZ said that it welcomes the government's review of the general insurance market
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- February 3 2026
Wang Fuk Court fire insurance payouts exceed US$65m: HKIA
A total of 863 general insurance claims and 169 life insurance claims have been settled, the Insurance Authority said on Tuesday.
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- February 2 2026
Australia’s East Coast hailstorm losses rise to US$1bn: Perils
Updated estimate reflects higher claims after severe convective storms brought destructive hail and winds to the Australian states of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
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- January 29 2026
Southeast Asia on frontline of escalating natural catastrophe risk: Willis
Catastrophe risk remains high despite a moderate loss year in 2025, director of natural catastrophe analytics Cameron Rye says in a report.
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- January 28 2026
Losses from Victoria bushfires pass US$140m: ICA
Insurers have received over 3,123 claims from the Victoria bushfires.
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- January 28 2026
‘Hopeless’: observation-based models fall short as insurers comprehend modern flood risks
Speaking on InsuranceAsia News’ Between the Lines podcast, Fathom COO and co-founder Andrew Smith says the arrival of next-generation global flood models could not be more timely amid climate change.
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- January 27 2026
Claims from New Zealand’s ‘complex, incredibly devastating’ deadly storms top 1,200
Country is experiencing La Niña weather patterns, so ongoing rainfall is possible, IAG claims specialist tells InsuranceAsia News.
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- January 26 2026
Victoria bushfires won’t shift market, Howden says, with losses set to be less than ‘Black Summer’
Broker tells InsuranceAsia News reinsurance recoveries under cat XoL programs ‘unlikely to be material’.
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- January 26 2026
Australia braces for heavy rains as Cyclone Luana’s remnants track inland
Severe weather persists across the country as temperatures reach nearly 50°C, elevating the risk of bushfires.
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- January 22 2026
Record-breaking rain cause landslides, flooding on New Zealand’s North Island
States of emergency declared in Northland, Hauraki, Bay of Plenty, and Thames-Coromandel as a low-pressure front continues to bring heavy rains.
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- January 21 2026
China floods, rising typhoon activity drive APAC’s US$87bn nat cat bill in 2025: Gallagher Re
Just over US$10bn of the total losses in the region was covered by insurance, according to the broker’s annual Natural Catastrophe and Climate Report.
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- January 20 2026
Severe convective storms overtake cyclones as costliest insured peril this century: Aon
Natural hazards such as SCS and wildfire are reshaping global loss patterns and intensifying need for both physical and financial resilience, the broker says.
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- January 20 2026
ICA warns against Queensland councils’ mutual insurance plan, urges national pooling
Marsh’s JLT has been asked to consider a mutual insurance option amid growing frustration over a flood-driven surge in premiums.
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- January 20 2026
Insurers brace for further claims after heavy rainfall in New Zealand’s North Island
An orange heavy rain warning remains in force in Northland with a month’s worth of rain predicted to fall in 2-3 days.
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- January 16 2026
Victoria bushfires declared by ‘insurance catastrophe’ as claims top 2,300
Aon says expected economic losses are still pending proper assessment, but 'will reach' the hundreds of millions of US dollars.
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- January 15 2026
Victoria bushfires destory 228 homes, 700 structures after burning area five times the size of Singapore
Insurers have received 2,201 insurance claims from the fires, which have been raging since last week, mostly in Victoria, but also in New South Wales.
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- January 15 2026
Bridging Asia’s protection gap key focus for Verisk, but data issue remains
US-based data analytics and risk assessment firm has inland flood models for Japan, and has recently released flood models for Malaysia and Indonesia, with plans to introduce a hail model for Japan and flood models for New Zealand and Australia.
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- January 14 2026
Cyber top APAC business risks in 2026 as AI surges to second place: Allianz Commercial
Both cyber and AI now rank as top five risks in every other region, and almost all the industry sectors analysed in the Allianz Risk Barometer report.
