Hurricane Sandy loss estimate News

Post-Sandy Snowstorm Causes New Damage, Complicates Business Insurance

Businesses in New York and New Jersey that were preparing insurance claims for losses from Superstorm Sandy now have a second headache: how to deal with new losses from an early winter snow storm. The snow and wind from the …

Superstorm Sandy Stress Scenarios Won’t Impact Insurer Ratings: Fitch

Even an extreme $40 billion scenario for property/casualty insurance industry losses from Hurricane Sandy would not drive material rating changes for insurers, analysts at Fitch Ratings said today. In a report providing a sensitivity analysis of the event for 10 …

Sandy Losses Within Hurricane Models, Manageable: Reinsurer Hiscox

Superstorm Sandy won’t put insurers’ finances under severe strain, and may allow them to push through a profit-boosting rise in prices next year, Hiscox , the biggest London-listed reinsurer, said on Monday. Sandy killed at least 113 and caused severe …

Eqecat Doubles Insured Loss Estimate for Sandy to $10-20 Billion

Catastrophe risk modeling firm Eqecat doubled its insured loss estimate range for Sandy, to $10 billion to $20 billion, with the total economic damage range now in $30 billion to $50 billion. Equcat’s previous estimate — published on Monday, Oct. …

Hurricane Sandy Losses Should Not Affect Most Insurer Ratings or Premiums: S&P

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said it expects Hurricane Sandy to have only limited impact on the ratings on U.S. property/casualty insurers, global reinsurers, and certain catastrophe bonds. Although it anticipate that losses from Sandy will affect (re)insurers’ fourth-quarter earnings …

Insured Losses From Hurricane Sandy $7-$15 Billion: AIR Worldwide

Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimated Tuesday evening that insured losses from Hurricane Sandy to onshore properties in the U.S. would be in the range of $7 billion to $15 billion. AIR’s insured loss estimate includes wind and storm surge …

Hurricane Sandy Losses Expected to Top Irene’s

Hurricane Sandy appears to have easily caused more losses than last year’s Hurricane Irene, but final totals will be hard to come by for some time because of the scale of the disaster, catastrophe forecasting companies said on Tuesday. Sandy …

Hurricane Sandy Delivers Severe But Short-Term Economic Blow: Economists

Hurricane Sandy is shaping up to be one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States but even with the severe damage that is expected, the blow to the economy is seen as short-term. Economists say some of …

Initial Forecast: $5-10B Insured Losses Expected From Sandy: Eqecat

As the east coast braces for the impact of Hurricane Sandy, catastrophe risk modeling firm Eqecat issued this morning a preliminary estimate for potential economic and insured losses.Eqecat said Sandy is a large storm, impacting 20 percent of the U.S. …