Cat risk

  • Canada's $5.5bn insured loss for 2024 from natcat events shatters record

    13 January 2025

    Country faces US- style insurability issues as weather toll mounts

  • Free webinar: what do experts recommend for climate risk modelling?

    13 January 2025

    InsuranceERM webinar will be held on Wednesday 22 January at 3pm GMT

  • Funded re, climate and operational resilience among PRA's 2025 priorities

    10 January 2025

    UK regulator sets out focus for this year's supervision of insurers

  • Florida trumpets growing insurance strength even as California burns

    10 January 2025

    Commissioner Mike Yaworsky talks up "significant progress" in state's property insurance market following reforms

  • LA wildfires set to be record insured loss event, but re/insurers can absorb impact

    10 January 2025

    Some estimates suggest insured losses are at $20bn already

  • California moves to protect insurance coverage for wildfires

    10 January 2025
  • Natural disasters caused $140bn in insured losses in 2024, says Munich Re

    09 January 2025

    Reinsurer reports third-costliest year since 1980, with weather-related events driving 97% of insured losses

  • LA fires pose more challenges for California's insurability crisis

    09 January 2025

    Current fires will be in top 5 wildfire losses in US, according to analysts

  • Raging wildfires in Los Angeles set to trigger "significant" insured losses

    08 January 2025

    AM Best and Moody's share preliminary insights

  • Climate and Sustainability Roundup: Trump's return and LA ablaze

    08 January 2025

    InsuranceERM highlights climate and sustainability news from the past month

  • Swiss Re forecasts stable US P&C profitability, despite elevated uncertainty

    07 January 2025

    The reinsurer expects the sector's premium growth to decelerate

  • Verisk first to apply for California's new wildfire model review

    03 January 2025

    Comes as state's Sustainable Insurance Strategy took effect on 2 January

  • Floods dominate non-US insurance cat losses

    02 January 2025

    Floods dominate non-US insurance cat losses

  • FSA warns Japan's insurers to uphold governance amid global expansion

    02 January 2025

    Internal audit and governance must be enhanced as operations expand, watchdog says

  • InsuranceERM's 2024 review: Natural catastrophes and politics collide

    31 December 2024