Viewpoint: Is it Time to Rethink the ‘Secondary-Peril’ Label and Reclassify Risk? August 12, 2026 By Vikas Wadhera As climate events intensify, exposure is expanding, and loss severities from secondary perils, such as convective storms, wildfires, floods and...
‘Chronic’ Heat Risk in Europe Draws Warning From Swiss Re August 11, 2026 By Gautam Naik As Europe comes to grips with its fifth heat wave of the year, the research arm of Swiss Re AG...
Colombia Suffers Widespread Damage From Magnitude 7.4 Quake August 10, 2026 By Oscar Medina and Katherine Pennacchio A deadly earthquake hit Colombia on Monday morning, toppling buildings, burying people under rubble and leaving more than 100 dead...
Wildfire Forces Evacuations Across Top Canadian Wine Region August 10, 2026 By Ari Altstedter More than 20,000 people were ordered to evacuate one of Canada’s top wine-producing regions as an uncontrolled wildfire spread rapidly,...
Europe’s Wildfire Season Exposes Climate Insurance Protection Gap August 4, 2026 By Jemima Denham, Elizabeth Howcroft and Michael Jones Domestic insurers are expected to absorb most of the losses from Europe’s worst wildfire season in recent history, but the...
Japan Earthquake Halts Auto and Chip Plants, Testing Supply Chain Resilience July 31, 2026 By Tim Kelly, Maki Shiraki, Daniel Leussink and Sam Nussey The 7.1-magnitude quake that struck southern Japan this week has brought many car and semiconductor factories in the area to...
Japan Earthquake’s Insurance Claims May Top $1.1 Billion: Bloomberg Intelligence July 30, 2026 By Bloomberg News Insurance claims from this week’s earthquake in Japan may top the 175 billion yen ($1.1 billion) average for the country’s...
Powerful Quake Hits Southern Japan, Workers Missing After Shopping Mall Blast July 28, 2026 By Anton Bridge, Satoshi Sugiyama and Kantaro Komiya A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and...
Why El Niño’s Promise of Quieter Hurricane Season May Not Be Good News for Insurers July 27, 2026 By Niket Nishant, Ashitha Shivaprasad and Manya Saini For insurers, the periodic El Niño climate phenomenon has traditionally lowered the risk of costly Atlantic hurricanes, but decades of...
Insurer Mapfre Estimates Venezuela Quake Losses at €25 Million July 24, 2026 By Marta Serafinko and Mireia Merino Spanish insurer Mapfre said on Thursday that losses from the June 24 earthquakes in Venezuela would be up to €25...