Investors sold insurance shares Monday in fear of how high the total losses from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami will go,...
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Fears of a nuclear disaster in Japan heightened on Tuesday after radiation levels around its quake-stricken power plant soared following...
The Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group announced that the Company’s 2011 first quarter results will be negatively impacted by the New...
Catastrophe modeling firm EQECAT has issued a bulletin describing the potential insured market losses and summarizing the various impacts of...
The magnitude 8.9 earthquake, 6 miles down in the Japan Trench and 130 kms (81 miles) off Japan’s northeast coast,...
U.S. insurer Aflac Inc , which is the largest foreign insurer in Japan, has “rather limited” financial exposure to the...
Economic losses in the regions of Japan that were hit by a massive earthquake will reach around 14 trillion yen...
A decline in shares of Japanese non-life insurers including MS&AD Insurance Group [Mitsui Sumitomo] is expected to be temporary as...

The unexpected nature of this week’s earthquake in Japan, plus the damage from the subsequent tsunami and fires, makes estimating...
Shares in European insurers fell steeply on Monday after analysts estimated over the weekend that the Japanese earthquake could cost...