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- March 20 2023
Carriers brace for property claims as bushfires spread across Australia
A heatwave has sparked dozens of fires that have impacted multiple properties across WA, SA and NSW with claims inevitable.
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- March 16 2023
ICA calls for 10-year disaster funding over worsening extreme weather
The insurer body wants the government to extend the US$133m per year programme into a rolling scheme.
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- March 16 2023
Exclusive: Hankook Tire fire losses may reach liability limit of US$230m
While KB Insurance has a 40% exposure to the risk pool, Samsung, Hyundai and DB Insurance have 20% each, IAN can reveal.
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- March 15 2023
Auckland floods initial loss estimate is over US$1bn: Perils
The unprecedented event is labelled as the largest weather-related insurance industry loss historically for New Zealand.
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- March 15 2023
Claims pile up from Malaysia flood losses as unseasonal rains continue
Loss adjusters have seen hundreds of claims, while agriculture damage already exceeds the overall losses in the state of Johor for 2022.
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- March 10 2023
Moody’s downgrades Fubon Insurance as pandemic hits profitability
The Taiwanese insurer's rating was changed to A2 from A1 with outlook changed to negative from stable.
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- March 10 2023
Hannover Re’s 2022 APAC P&C combined ratio surges to 126.1%
The German reinsurer was hit by floods in Australia and Malaysia, typhoons in Japan and South Korea and Covid losses in Taiwan and Thailand.
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- March 9 2023
Exclusive: Philippines oil spill could cost Shipowners’ Club over US$100m
IAN understands that the P&I club is the sole insurer on a sunken oil tanker that was carrying 800,000 litres of toxic fuel oil.
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- March 7 2023
WTW appoints Tony Calnon head of complex claims for Australasia
Calnon joins the broker from loss adjuster Crawford, where he was a forensic accountant.
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- March 6 2023
Auckland flood claims cross NZ$1bn: ICNZ
Insurers have received 48,000 claims from the North Island floods, while Cyclone Gabrielle claims lodged have reached 30,000.
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- March 6 2023
Ping An on the line for Hong Kong skyscraper fire set to cost over US$50m: sources
A blaze at an under-construction luxury hotel, which IAN understands is brokered by WTW, could be the highest property-related insurance payout in the city.
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- February 28 2023
Tower’s reinstatement talks in progress for two more nat cat events
While the Auckland floods cost will be covered by reinsurance, Gabrielle claims are also likely to trigger the Kiwi carrier's cat reinsurance cover with an excess of US$7.3m.
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- February 27 2023
Flooding bill from Queensland, NSW hits US$3.9bn one year on: ICA
The dramatic summer 2022 flooding event was the costliest insurance event in Australia's history.
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- February 22 2023
Enstar Group in LPT deal with RACQ for 80% of motor liabilities up to accident year 2021
Under the reinsurance deal RACQ will cede net reserves of approximately US$264m.
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- February 22 2023
Cyclone Gabrielle claims ramp up pressure on New Zealand’s carriers
Insurers are being hit by inflation, rising reinsurance costs and unprecedented weather, including the country's largest event since the Christchurch earthquake.
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- February 17 2023
Tower ups large event allowance by 33%, expects Gabrielle to trigger reinsurance
The storm is the second event in weeks set to breach the insurer's cat excess of US$7.4m leading to Tower to downgrade its profit guidance.
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- February 16 2023
Insured losses from Cyclone Gabrielle, Auckland floods to exceed 2022 nat cat total: ICNZ
IAG New Zealand has already received 2,300 claims connected with the cyclone, mainly from Auckland, Northland, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty.
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- February 16 2023
Allianz sees claims from cyclone pool after Gabrielle hit Norfolk Island
The storm caused minor damage to the external territory before it slammed New Zealand.
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- February 15 2023
Covid, nat cat woes continue at Japan’s ‘big three’
Net profits at Tokio Marine fell 27.4%, with Sompo Holdings declining 79.5% and MS&AD dropping 57% for the first nine months of FY 2022.
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- February 14 2023
First claims lodged as Cyclone Gabrielle wreaks havoc
New Zealand has declared a state of emergency as the cyclone hits homes, roads, vehicles, air traffic and the power grid.
