natural disaster reinsurance News

FEMA Looking to Expand Disaster Reinsurance Program

The federal government, seeking to protect itself from the growing cost of natural disasters, is borrowing a technique from the private sector and buying reinsurance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which started purchasing reinsurance last year for the National Flood …

Weakness in Pricing Lowers Reinsurers’ Q1 2014 Profits

Swiss Re and Hannover Re, the world’s no. 2 and 3 reinsurers, said they saw lower prices in natural disaster reinsurance and April renewals, as they beat profit expectations in the first quarter. Fewer serious natural disasters, as well as …