AXA SA said it sold catastrophe bonds designed to protect insurers from payouts on storm damage, in the biggest transaction...
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The Philippines froze prices for basic goods to prevent gouging in an area cut off by the country’s biggest earthquake...

A once-in-a-decade typhoon threatened Japan on Tuesday, disrupting travel and shipping and forcing precautions to be taken at the wrecked...

France’s current economic concerns overshadow fears for longer-term issues, according to a risk perception survey, commissioned by Swiss Re, released...

Australia can expect an average cyclone season with up to 11 tropical storms, four of them severe, in the next...

A mass evacuation saved thousands of people from India’s fiercest cyclone in 14 years, but aid workers warned a million...
“The IAIS, with its proposal for additional risk-adjusted capital rules for major re/insurers, seems to be joining the regulatory bandwagon...

According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide Typhoon Nari, aka Santi, made landfall in the Philippines, “as of 18:50 October...
European non-life and life insurers “are benefitting from a more stable economic environment, although they continue to adjust product offerings...
EQECAT’s President Paul Little explains how cat models have evolved from the general to the specific and what’s now required...