Latest Catastrophe Headlines
All the headlines from our Catastrophe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dearth Amidst Plenty – Reinsurers Send Mixed Signals
Jun 9 2003 // Is the glass half-full, or half-empty? The classic example of identical facts dictating opposite conclusions, depending on whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist, defines the current picture in the reinsurance...
Working with Blowouts, Knock-for-Knocks and Other Oil Patch Oddities
Jun 9 2003 // One of the big issues facing small- to mid-size oil and gas operators and contractors these days is the need to determine how much risk they are willing to carry themselves and how much they want to transfer to an insuring...
Execs Talk Future of Industry at 9th Annual ITC Forum
Jun 9 2003 // “Amateur hour is over.” Those were the words of the Sullivan Group president Gerald J. Sullivan, addressing a roomful of industry executives recently at the 9th Annual Insuring the Children Forum....
Worst Ever Tornado Losses Won’t Affect Property Rates Yet
Jun 9 2003 // A series of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes that ravaged the country’s mid-section in early May is not likely to send property insurance rates soaring again, but the surprising weather pattern has caused insurers...
Working with Blowouts, Knock-for-Knocks and Other Oil Patch Oddities
Jun 9 2003 // One of the big issues facing small- to mid-size oil and gas operators and contractors these days is the need to determine how much risk they are willing to carry themselves and how much they want to transfer to an insuring...
RMS Integrates New Hurricane Model With “RiskOnline” System
Jun 3 2003 // Newark Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions has taken another step in preparation for what experts are predicting will be an active hurricane season by integrating the third generation of its U.S. Hurricane model,...
RMS Earthquake Engineer Asked by EERI to Lead Algerian Quake Damage Survey Team
May 30 2003 // California-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, announced that the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) has asked Dr. Fouad...
Mich. Limits Insurer Exposure Under Standard Fire Policy
May 30 2003 // Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) has signed into law a bill limiting insurer exposure under the Standard Fire Policy Act. The state follows similar action earlier this year by Virginia, Minnesota and Nebraska, according...
Mold Claims Hit $4 Billion in Texas
May 27 2003 // Texas insurance companies have paid out just under $4 billion for mold claims in the past three years. According to the Insurance Council of Texas, an insurance trade association, mold claims have represented a larger...
Mich. Legislature Sends Standard Fire Policy Bill to Gov
May 27 2003 // The Michigan Legislature has passed a bill limiting insurer exposure under the Standard Fire Policy Act and sent it to the governor, whose signature is urged, according to the Alliance of American Insurers. Under the bill,...
Allmerica Financial Corp. Notes $19 Million Drop for 2Q Pre-Tax Catastrophe Losses
May 22 2003 // Massachusetts-based Allmerica Financial Corporation has incurred approximately $19 million in pre-tax catastrophe losses to date in the second quarter. The losses are primarily the result of hail, high winds, and...
New Swiss Re Publication Examines Terrorist Risks
May 21 2003 // Swiss Re announced that it has published a timely new study, “Terrorism risks in property insurance and their insurability after 11 September 2001,” which it described as a “brochure aimed at identifying...
Safeco Estimates Storm Losses
May 20 2003 // Seattle-based Safeco announced that claims stemming from the recent string of Midwest and Southern tornadoes, added to losses from violent hailstorms in Texas earlier in the quarter, are estimated at nearly $90 million in...
Insurance Losses From Tornadoes Could Be Most Costly Event Ever, Says I.I.I.
May 20 2003 // U.S. insurers have taken another hit these past few weeks as tornado season continues to wreak havoc on the nation. The tornadoes, which swept across parts of the U.S. from May 2-11, have the potential to be the costliest...
Workers’ Comp Market Analysis Shows Remarkable Improvement for Combined Ratio; Fall in Investment Income
May 16 2003 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) released its annual “State of the Line” preliminary workers’ compensation market analysis this week, with this year’s report indicating that the...
Fisher Says Industry Will Serve Okla. Tornado Survivors Well
May 16 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher told tornado survivors he will help the insurance industry in any way possible to resolve claims resulting from the storms that hit his state in early May. Fisher made his...
May 4 Kan. Tornado Insured Damage Totals $70 Million
May 16 2003 // Insured property damages due to the May 4 tornadoes in Kansas are about $70 million, according to the state’s insurance department. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger estimated that the damage in Northeast Kansas,...
AIR Estimates $2.2 Billion-Plus Insured Losses to Storms
May 14 2003 // AIR Worldwide Corp., a leading catastrophe modeling company, estimates that losses from the recent outbreak of severe weather in the central United States could exceed the $2.2 billion loss caused by a severe weather...
PIANJ Supports Proposed “Hurricane Deductible” Regulation
May 9 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. has written a letter to Assistant Commissioner Douglas Wheeler of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, indicating the organization’s support for the...
Midwest Tornadoes Cause at Least $325 Million in Insurance Losses
May 8 2003 // Tornadoes that swept across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Tennessee earlier this week could cost insurers at least $325 million — making it one of the top five costliest tornado events, according...
