Swiss Re’s latest sigma report preliminarily estimates that total economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters will reach approximately...
2015 catastrophes News
As the flood-ravaged Indian city of Chennai prayed for respite from torrential rains, a trade body said losses to businesses...
Brazil’s federal and state governments plan to sue the owners of the Samarco iron ore miner for 20 billion reais...
Brazil’s worst mining accident will lead to stricter insurance standards under a revised version of an industry bill first introduced...
As miners globally review the way they store waste in the wake of another horrific dam spill, the solution may...
Insurer Talanx AG’s $122 million loss from port explosions at Tianjin, one of China’s worst industrial disasters, takes the net...
The collapse of two dams at a Brazilian mine has cut off drinking water for quarter of a million people...
Brazil’s president slapped preliminary fines of 250 million reais ($66.2 million) against a mine in the country’s southeast where two...
Brazil’s government said on Wednesday it may fine mining giants BHP Billiton Ltd and Vale SA for the “environmental catastrophe”...
Insurers covering risks for a Brazilian mine where two dams burst last week, killing at least six people, could pay...