Tokyo was pummeled by rain and winds as Mindulle became the first typhoon to make landfall near the metropolitan region...
2016 catastrophes News

Global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters during the first half of 2016 reached US$31 billion, or 44...
Most global reinsurers have been able to maintain underwriting discipline despite the ongoing soft market, but there is a danger...
China’s seasonal “Mei-Yu” rainfall in July led to the worst flooding since 1998, bringing total combined economic losses of an...
Tropical Storm Earl* will continue to weaken as it crosses Belize after coming ashore early Thursday with drenching rains and...
Tropical Storm Earl, forecast to grow into a hurricane, may just graze Mexico’s oil-rich Bay of Campeche as it heads...

This year could be a tough one for U.S. property/casualty insurers as catastrophe losses, private passenger insurance woes and declining...

Preliminary global economic losses reached US$98 billion during the first half of 2016, while global insured losses hit US$30 billion...
The storms that hit Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario in Canada on June 24 and 25 caused more than C$34 million...
XL Group Plc, the insurer that expanded last year with the purchase of Catlin Group Ltd., said second-quarter catastrophe costs...