All Catastrophe articles – Page 3
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Online onlyAspen has $75-115m catastrophe loss
Losses mainly from Chile earthquake reinsurance claims
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Online onlyArgo expects Q1 catastrophe losses to reach $35m
Argo reveals preliminary loss estimates for earthquakes in Chile and Haiti and Windstorm Xynthia
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Online onlyRMS and Asia Capital Re to cooperate in Asia
Companies were mindful of devastation from recent earthquakes and typhoons
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Online onlyArch Capital faces $65m catastrophe losses
Chilean Earthquake, European Windstorm Xynthia and Australian hailstorms and floods produce insurance and reinsurance losses
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Online onlyChile quake ‘biggest Latin America loss’
Cooper Gay comments on expected impact on the reinsurance market
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Online onlyHannover Re wins special status in Florida
Reinsurer becomes the first to qualify as an eligible reinsurer under new collateral terms
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Online onlyCaribbean rainfall model launched
Enables regional cat fund to issue excess rainfall insurance
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Online onlyEastern US suffers under winter storms
More snow ahead; state of emergency is declared in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.
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News
Heartbreak in Haiti
The earthquake that struck Haiti last month caused catastrophic damage and loss of life, decimating an already impoverished country. But despite extremely low levels of insurance there, the industry has an important role to play in reconstruction
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Online onlySwiss Re places $150m cat bond
Redwood Capital XI gives protection for California earthquake risk
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FeaturesSmoke signals
The world’s leaders were in Copenhagen to discuss climate change and, potentially, set new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We asked four leading firms for their hopes for the UN summit, and to spell out how they can contribute to the battle against carbon
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FeaturesHope on the horizon
Swiss Re’s chief economist, Thomas Hess, has great faith in the insurance sector’s survival instincts. As he tells Ellen Bennett, there is reason for cautious optimism among the gloom
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Ida moves slowly towards Gulf coast
Tropical Storm weakens. Some loss of production in Gulf.
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White Papers
EQECAT - Empirical Ground Motion Model for the NGA Project
Dr. Kenneth Campbell and Dr. Yousef Bozorgnia present a new empirical ground motion model for PGA, PGV, PGD and 5% damped linear elastic response spectra for periods ranging from 0.01 - 10s. This paper was submitted to the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE) held in Beijing early October ...
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White Papers
EQECAT - Understanding European Windstorms
European windstorms are complicated, difficult to model perils, but as James Webb explains, models are increasing in sophistication and quantification of uncertainties is improving.
