David Walker

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

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

State Farm gets 17% home policy rate hike in California, but must receive $400m capital backing

Consumer Watchdog called Ricardo Lara's rate decision "a great disappointment for consumers"

Chinese regulator promises insurance support for exporters amid trade war

NFRA is also pushing cover for local sci-tech firms

Hannover Re books €631m bill from Californian wildfires

German group overstepped its €435m quarterly large loss budget by €330m

Tokio Marine chairman to take pay cut after contract data leakage

Sompo and MS&AD units also caught up in information leakage

French life insurers expanded business by 26% to exceed €500bn in 2024

Eiopa data reveals a €12trn goldmine for life insurers since 2018

European non-life sector nears €10trn in premiums since 2017 after 8% growth in 2024

Underwriting was profitable in the vast bulk of cases last year

German life firms unwound €1.4bn of ZZR reserves in 2024

SFCRs detail where reductions in stockpile occurred

Suncorp still A$445m below natcat budget, despite A$85m hit from Alfred

Solvency of Zurich's German policy transfer insurer softens as life underwriting risk grows

Zurich Legacy Life detailed its risk-taking in its latest SFCR