Damages from Hurricane Harvey’s ravaging of Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast are estimated to be well below those from...
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Specialist insurer Hiscox has appointed Shree Khare as group head of Catastrophe Research. Khare will lead the research that directly...
A major $200 billion loss from a combination of a cyber attack, U.S. hurricane and the failure of a reinsurer...
A group of re/insurance and global broking CEOs are assisting the work of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), which was...
Ecuador will temporarily increase some taxes, sell assets, and may issue new bonds on the international market to fund a...
The insurance industry, the United Nations and the World Bank have formed a public-private partnership designed to help bridge the...
Billionaire John Paulson’s New York hedge fund firm has shut an operation in Bermuda that had been targeted by a...
A huge global gap between disaster-related insured and economic losses presents a growth opportunity for P/C carriers, AIR Worldwide determined...

The underinsurance of property risk – particularly natural catastrophe risks – has risen steadily over the past 40 years, even...
The ACE Group has increased catastrophe limits to $30 million across all its North American retail and wholesale broker-distributed commercial...