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- December 18 2023
Australian carriers see claims rise from flash floods following Cyclone Jasper
The ICA has declared a significant event in northern Queensland as Suncorp reported more than 500 claims and IAG about 100 from record flooding in Cairns.
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- December 14 2023
New India Assurance admits NHPC’s Sikkim flood claims
The state-owned power producer's projects damaged in the flood include Teesta-V Power Station (510 megawatt) and the under-construction Teesta-IV HE project (500 megawatt).
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- December 12 2023
Australia prepares for Cyclone Jasper as ARPC declares cyclone event
The tropical cyclone is expected to cause extremely strong winds, heavy rain, and storm surge, with severe weather warnings already in place in northern parts of Queensland.
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- December 11 2023
Wild weather troika of heatwave, bushfire, cyclone bear down on eastern Australia
Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has put out a heatwave warning, a severe thunderstorm warning, a minor flood warning over the weekend even as Cyclone Jasper loomed.
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- December 8 2023
North Australian home insurance rates ‘substantially more’ than rest of country despite cyclone pool: ACCC
Insurance prices in the north, across home, strata and SME covers, remain high but the rate increase in 2022–23 is less than in the rest of Australia, the competition regulator said.
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- December 8 2023
South India floods: Insured losses could cross half-a-billion-dollar mark
Home and commercial property claims, BI losses continue to climb as the industrial hub of Chennai has yet to recover from the flooding, say local loss adjusters.
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- December 6 2023
China’s financial regulator launches consultation on green insurance development
The National Administration of Financial Regulation targets a full-fledged green insurance servicing sector by 2030.
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- December 4 2023
Southern India braces for Cyclone Michaung
The south-eastern city of Chennai has been hit by heavy rainfall and flooding, reminiscent of a 2015 flooding that caused US$755m in insured losses.
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- December 4 2023
Hong Kong’s September extreme weather bill at US$243m: HKIA
Black rainstorm accounted for 81% of the claims, while the rest came from Typhoon Saola; 86% of gross claims incurred were property losses.
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- December 4 2023
COP28: Insurance can’t be sole solution for climate challenges
With the just-adopted Loss and Damage Fund, the industry can play a supporting role by offering solutions like parametrics in the short term but need to look beyond insurance for the long term.
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- December 4 2023
Quarter-million Australian properties exposed to 1-in-20 year flood risk: ICA
The industry group said in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry said New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, respectively, were the most vulnerable.
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- November 29 2023
Wild weather hits eastern Australia; further storms, hail and heavy rainfall expected
The Bureau of Meteorology said the downpour expected this week is going to be well in excess of a month's worth of rainfall.
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- November 29 2023
‘Cannot run away’ from nat cat risks, says Tokio Marine chief: report
Chief executive Satoru Komiya told the Financial Times that nat cats, not systemic cyber-attack, remains the biggest risk to the sector.
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- November 27 2023
Over 85% of Australian carriers on track to achieve net-zero by 2050: ICA
An updated climate change roadmap provides goals and best practice guidelines to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for operations by the end of this decade and across the entire value chain by 2050.
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- November 23 2023
CelsiusPro partners Tower to build distribution platform for Pacific islands parametric cyclone cover
The cover will apply to a policyholder's house or another insured location, impacted by a high wind-speed cyclone event, regardless of damage.
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- November 23 2023
APAC markets need to wake up to changing nat cat exposures
After a bruising 2022 and 2023 nat cat loss experience to date, there can no longer be any argument that Asia faces a new flood risk reality.
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- November 22 2023
El Niño likely to continue till March 2024, says Australian weather bureau
The sea surface temperatures are hovering above El Niño thresholds into the early Southern Hemisphere autumn of 2024 while the event is gaining moderate strength.
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- November 15 2023
Opinion: Government intervention key to addressing APAC’s insurability challenges
As insurers grapple with secondary perils, governments, especially in emerging Asia, need to look at prevention not cure.
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- November 13 2023
Tokio Marine floats disaster prevention and mitigation services firm
Led by Masashi Namatame as president, Tokio Marine Resilience will support customers and local communities by paying claims as well as address the causes of losses such as flooding, landslides, earthquakes, and tsunamis
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- November 13 2023
IAG joins Australian cyclone reinsurance pool
The carrier's brands will pass on savings from the pool to new customer policies and renewals for home, commercial property, residential strata and landlord policies.
