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The Hanover: $28M Loss From Ian as Overall Cat Losses Exceed Assumption

The Hanover Insurance Group on Oct. 20 released an estimate of third-quarter overall catastrophe and Hurricane Ian-related losses. Q3 catastrophe losses are expected to be about $90 million, pre tax. Estimated losses from Ian will be about $28 million, mostly …

Progressive Loses A Bundle: Nearly $2.0B Gross Ian Losses; $760M Net

Insurer Progressive incurred nearly $2.0 billion in gross loss and loss adjustment expenses for vehicle and property claims related to Hurricane Ian, sending over $1 billion of the total to reinsurers, the company reported Thursday. In an earnings announcement disclosing …

Allstate Executives Shuffle With Retirement of Property-Liability President

Allstate announced August 18 that Glenn Shapiro, president, Property-Liability, has decided to retire at the end of September. He joined Allstate as chief claims officer in 2016 and has held his current position since 2018. Current chief financial officer Mario …

Risky Business: Climate Change Turns Up Heat on Insurers, Policyholders

Tony and Jhan Dunn never thought they would leave California, where they grew up, built a life together and planned to retire. But after a wildfire swept through their Northern California town of Paradise three years ago, burning their home …

Allstate: May 2020 Catastrophe Losses Mostly in Midwest, Texas

Allstate says severe weather events in Texas and the Midwest account for the majority of its $350 million in catastrophe losses in May 2020. Northbrook, Illinois-based Allstate Corp. has estimated catastrophe losses for the month of May of $350 million, …

Allstate Says 60% of June Insured Cat Losses Came from Texas

Announcing total estimated catastrophe losses for June, Allstate Corporation attributed 60 percent of those losses to four severe wind and hail weather events that primarily impacted Texas. Allstate estimated catastrophe losses for the month of June 2019 of $309 million, …

Global Insured Losses From Disasters at $79 Billion in 2018: Swiss Re Sigma Estimate

According to preliminary sigma estimates from Swiss Re, total economic losses from natural and man-made catastrophes in 2018 declined to USD $155 billion from USD $350 billion in 2017. Global insured losses are estimated to be around USD $79 billion, …

S&P Probes If Reinsurers Are Ready for Another Year of Active Natural Disasters

After global insured natural catastrophe losses hit record highs in 2017, will reinsurers be able to withstand another year of active natural catastrophes? S&P Global Ratings indicates that while reinsurers are entering this year’s hurricane season with robust earnings and …

Cincinnati Financial Corp. Says Q3 Cat Losses Could Rise to $114M

Cincinnati Financial Corp. has announced that the Cincinnati Insurance Companies’ property/casualty group expects its third-quarter results to include pretax catastrophe losses of approximately $102 million to $114 million. The company said the impact on the third-quarter 2017 combined ratio would …

Insurance Adjusters Mobilized to Deal with Harvey Cat Losses

Teams of insurance adjusters were mobilized Friday in Texas cities closest to Hurricane Harvey’s expected path of destruction. Hurricane Harvey made landfall late Friday evening as a category 4 hurricane. According to AIR Worldwide, “the eye of the storm crossed …