Turkey Earthquake Tops 2023 Insurance Industry Losses Outside US: CRESTA January 2, 2024 The largest non-US natural catastrophe in 2023 was the Kahramanmaras Earthquake Sequence in Turkey on Feb. 6, which generated an...
Insured Losses From N. Zealand Floods Estimated at US$1.02B, With Profit Hit Expected March 15, 2023 By L.S. Howard The initial insured losses for the recent floods in the North Island of New Zealand are estimated at NZ$1.65 billion...
New Zealand Needs to Rebuild With Resilience to Extreme Weather: PM February 24, 2023 After last week’s damaging cyclone, New Zealand needs to rebuild with more resilient infrastructure to cope with more frequent and...
Extreme Weather May Force New Zealand to Rethink Where It Builds: Finance Minister February 17, 2023 By Tracy Withers New Zealand faces big questions about where people should live and how to build infrastructure as the devastating aftermath of...
New Zealand Searches for Missing After Cyclone; Sizable Economic Cost Expected February 16, 2023 By Tracy Withers New Zealand is still searching for people missing in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle amid fears the death toll will...
Cyclone’s Destructive Path Through New Zealand, Killing at Least Four People February 15, 2023 By Tracy Withers Four people are dead and there are concerns for others who are missing on New Zealand’s North Island as emergency...
Cyclone Gabrielle Leaves Trail of Destruction Across New Zealand’s North Island February 14, 2023 By Tracy Withers Cyclone Gabrielle has started to track away from New Zealand after leaving a trail of destruction across large parts of...
Cyclone Gabrielle Hits New Zealand Leaving Thousands of Homes Without Power February 13, 2023 By Tracy Withers Tens of thousands of homes in northern New Zealand are without electricity as a powerful cyclone begins lashing the South...
New Zealand Braces for Cyclone Gabrielle, Just Days After Devastating Floods February 10, 2023 By Lucy Craymer Residents of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, are being asked to prepare for further bad weather as a system described...