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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.
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- September 22 2022
Analytics: Asia marine premium growth offset by higher claims
Vessel activity returns to pre-Covid levels, rates flatten and inflation pushes up cost of repairs.
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- September 20 2022
‘Solid’ premium growth to offset claims’ inflation for New Zealand P&C carriers: S&P
The market's average combined ratio to remain in the 87-90% range over the next three years.
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- September 19 2022
Strong Taiwan earthquake triggers widespread infrastructure damage
Buildings, railway lines and bridges have all been impacted in the epicentre, Taitung county.
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- September 19 2022
‘Violent’ Typhoon Nanmadol causes havoc across Japan
The third-strongest typhoon to make landfall since records began is moving northeast raising flood warning in Tokyo.
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- September 16 2022
New Zealand on course for record extreme weather claims after US$26m July hit
Total claims at the end of July were US$147m, compared to US$195m in the whole of 2021, according to the ICNZ.
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- September 13 2022
Eastern Australian floods insured losses reach US$4.33bn: Perils
The figure is around US$960m higher than the data specialist's last analysis, making it the costliest cat loss event in the country ever.
