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#1 Catastrophe Bond Investors Told to Brace for Jamaica Payout
Oct 28 2025 // Investors in a catastrophe bond tied to Jamaica look set to experience a trigger event as Hurricane Melissa barrels toward the Caribbean island as a Category 5 storm. “Based on current models there is a high chance...
#2 Jamaica Catastrophe Bondholders Now Face Full-Trigger Event
Oct 28 2025 // Investors in Jamaica’s catastrophe bond now face a full trigger event that would force payment of the entire $150 million bond to help the island deal with fallout from Hurricane Melissa. That’s according to...
#3 Reinsurers Hold Bulk of Jamaica’s Property Exposures From Hurricane Melissa: Reports
Oct 29 2025 // Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful category 5 storm – a record for the Caribbean island nation — which brought storm surge, torrential rain, strong winds and massive damages. Making landfall...
#4 Travelers Q3 Net Income Soars 50% on Lower Catastrophe Losses
Oct 16 2025 // Third quarter net income at The Travelers Cos. increased 50% compared with the same period a year ago, to about $1.9 billion on lower catastrophe losses. Catastrophe losses for the third quarter this year were $402 million...
#5 Catastrophe Bonds’ Huge Market Gains Put Reinsurers on Backfoot
Oct 21 2025 // The seemingly unstoppable rise of catastrophe bonds may now be eroding the market share of reinsurers. After years of raising prices, reinsurers are finding that primary insurers have started relying less on them and more...
#6 La Niña’s Back, but Will It Amp Up Hurricane Season?
Oct 10 2025 // La Nina, the cooler and at times costlier flip side of El Nino, has arrived to warp weather worldwide, meteorologists said Thursday. This natural weather phenomenon often turbocharges the Atlantic hurricane season, but...
#7 More NC Outer Banks Homes Collapse into Surf as Hurricanes Stay Far Offshore
Oct 3 2025 // Six unoccupied houses along North Carolina’s Outer Banks have collapsed into the ocean as Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda rumble in the Atlantic, the latest private beachfront structures to fall as sea levels rise due...
#8 Satellite Data Reveals Hurricane Melissa Damage in Jamaica
Oct 31 2025 // As Hurricane Melissa sweeps past Bermuda, new satellite data of Jamaica has revealed devastation for tourist center Montego Bay and much of the Western part of the country. At least 40% of the buildings and roads in the...
#9 Man Charged With ‘Maliciously’ Starting Massive LA Wildfire
Oct 8 2025 // Federal authorities arrested a 29-year-old man on charges that he intentionally started the blaze that days later became the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of homes in the Pacific Coast area...
#10 ‘Catastrophic’ Hacks Warning Follows Intrusion of Cyber Firm F5
Oct 16 2025 // The cybersecurity company F5 Inc. said nation-state hackers breached its networks, gaining “long-term, persistent access” to certain systems and stealing some source code. The breach prompted alerts from...
#11 ‘Catastrophic’ Hack Underscores Public Defender Security Gaps
Oct 29 2025 // Recent cyberattacks on public defenders’ offices in multiple Western US states have spotlighted the technological vulnerabilities of an often overlooked but critical part of the US judicial system. Public defenders,...
#12 EF5 Tornado That killed 3 in North Dakota was Nation’s First in 12 years
Oct 8 2025 // A deadly tornado that tore across southeastern North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to an EF5 with winds topping 200 mph (322 kph), the strongest classification of tornado and the first confirmed on American soil in...
#13 Hurricane Melissa Churns Toward Jamaica as Category 5 Storm
Oct 27 2025 // Hurricane Melissa plowed toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm, threatening to bring widespread destruction to the island. Melissa’s top winds reached 165 miles (266 kilometers) per hour, up from 160 mph...
#14 Intruders Release Mink From Iowa Farm in What Trade Group Calls ‘Terrorist Act’
Oct 27 2025 // One or more intruders broke into an Iowa mink farm and released 2,000 of the furbearing animals in what a trade group called a “terrorist act” under federal law. Sometime between last Monday night and Tuesday...
#15 Industry Groups Applaud Bill to Treat Forests, Mitigate Wildfire Risk
Oct 23 2025 // Insurance industry trades praised a Senate committee for the passage this week of the Fix Our Forests Act, a measure to address high-risk wildfire regions. “The risk of wildfire can no longer be ignored or...
#16 Florida County Hit by 2024 Hurricanes Takes on Beach Restoration Without Fed Help
Oct 10 2025 // The white sandy beaches along a swath of Florida’s Gulf Coast were battered by three hurricanes last year, leading to a multimillion-dollar effort to repair a coastline that is the region’s economic...
#17 US Sues Southern California Edison Over 2019 Wildfire
Oct 8 2025 // The U.S. government sued Southern California Edison to help restore National Forest System lands burned in the Saddleridge wildfire near Los Angeles in 2019. Tuesday’s lawsuit seeks damages for fire suppression costs...
#18 Charges Dropped Against Owner of Dog Found Left Behind in Hurricane Milton
Oct 20 2025 // Criminal charges have been dropped against a Florida man who authorities said abandoned his tied-up dog in floodwaters near a highway as residents evacuated Florida’s Gulf Coast last year shortly before Hurricane...
#19 Tropical Storm Melissa Brings Heavy Rain to Haiti, Dominican Republic and Jamaica
Oct 23 2025 // Tropical Storm Melissa began dumping heavy rain on Hispaniola on Tuesday as forecasters warned of a significant flood risk in parts of the Caribbean region later this week. The rains snarled traffic in the Dominican...
#20 Typhoon Matmo Strengthens as It Hits Philippines, on Track to China
Oct 3 2025 // Typhoon Matmo intensified as it made landfall in northern Philippines on Friday where it’s forecast to dump heavy rain, with the nation still reeling from the impact of two deadly typhoons in the past two...
