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  • How Spain's CCS covers risks, on many fronts

    16 May 2025

    Born from the wreckage of Spain's civil war, property catastrophe pool Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros now has another battle on its hands, with climate change. David Walker reports

  • Spain's CCS pays €2.8bn compensation so far from Valencia's floods

    14 May 2025

    October's extreme weather system will be the CCS's costliest catastrophe

  • Spain's property insurers applaud state-backed insurer after Valencia floods

    14 April 2025

    A 'dana' low-pressure system deluged Spain's southeast in October

  • Europe's public re/insurance pools lift their game, as climate change unfolds

    19 March 2025

    Government-backed programmes to keep property insurable must change with the times, as the risks they cover intensify. David Walker reports

  • Mapfre's profits soar in 2024 despite EU motor troubles

    12 February 2025

    Spanish floods last October cost the group €34m

  • Major accounting changes will dominate insurers' priorities in 2020

    31 December 2019

    The changes include IFRS 17 and IFRS 9, as well as LDTI and CECL changes to US GAAP