The projections consider a range of factors in the pandemic including underreporting
Responsibility for understanding the implications of climate change for insurers has largely fallen on the shoulders of the catastrophe modelling community. They are responding with a more dynamic and multi-faceted view, as Paul Walsh reports
More than 200 countries, areas and territories have confirmed cases of Covid-19
The spread of Covid-19 has not come as a surprise to everyone. Analytics firms are looking at the thousands of situations to model pandemics every day. However, it seems insurers are not quite up to scratch. Sarfraz Thind reports
The catastrophe modeller used its pandemic model to run hypothetical scenarios
The storm caused damage and disruption to large parts of the UK and Europe
But Fitch says as things stand, Chinese life firms adequately capitalised for earnings hit
The catastrophe risk modeller said stronger and more frequent cyclones are likely in the future
The combined losses from Hagibis and Faxai in Japan could rival last year’s typhoon Jebi
Japanese authorities called Hagibis the worst typhoon to hit Japan in decades