The global economy could withstand widespread disruption from a natural disaster or attack by militants for only a week, as...
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Montana is at risk of becoming less prepared to respond to disasters and public-health emergencies because of state and federal...
Swiss Re describes 2011 as the “year with the highest catastrophe-related economic losses in history, at $350 billion.” It could...
Insurance company Nationwide Mutual said profits in the first half of the year fell by more than half after paying...
A new special report, compiled by A.M. Best, concludes that the string of major catastrophes, a persistent soft market and...
Gradually rising sea levels caused by global warming over the past 30 years have contributed to a growing number of...
Reinsurance rates may be edging higher only now, but the companies’ shares could still surge amid investor hopes that disasters,...
According to Swiss Re’s latest sigma study, worldwide economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters were $218 billion in...
Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. announced its initial loss estimates for the 2011 Australian flooding as well as the February 2011...
In a recent bulletin the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) said it “has welcomed the National Disaster Insurance Review announced...