Archive

• Historic cat loss data sends stark warning to Australian insurers

  14 September 2023

  Cat modelling firm Risk Frontiers calculate the present-day impact of past insurance catastrophes

• Australian cyclone reinsurance pool avoids deluge of claims

  01 August 2023

  Only a handful of claims met by the ARPC in its first six months of coverage

• Risk modellers reveal limits in ChatGPT test on Turkish earthquake analysis

  20 February 2023

  Chatbot calls 148-year old seismography "advanced"

• Australian Q1 flood costs hit A$4.3bn

  01 June 2022

  IAG's Mark Leplastrier warns climate change's effects are "impacting communities now"

• Australia reveals laws for property reinsurance pool

  06 December 2021

  Government will backstop natural catastrophe cover with A$10bn

• Losses from Australian hailstorm rival Black Summer bushfires

  21 January 2021

  Cat loss modeller Perils puts costs for each at A$1.9bn

• Insurance claims from Australia's catastrophic summer pass A$2bn

  24 January 2020

  Hail losses reach half the size of bushfire losses

• Australian hailstorms cost insurers A$320m

  21 January 2020

  Insurance Council adds hail damage to nationwide fires as second concurrent catastrophe

• Australian hailstorm costs estimate at up to US$130m

  02 December 2019

  Risk Frontiers warns of more to come in summer storms

• Australia raises its game on wildfire loss models

  08 February 2019

  Ten years ago, Australia suffered one of its worst outbreaks of bushfires that burned 300,000 hectares and took 173 lives. David Walker reports on how wildfire modelling has developed to cope with this increasing threat