Despite a challenging business environment and global trade slowdown in 2015, global direct premiums written grew by 3.8 percent in...
Nepal earthquake News
Nepal’s prime minister announced this week the start of reconstruction of key heritage sites in and around the capital that...
One of the strongest El Ni帽o periods on record and a positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation were the...
Insurers paid out around $27 billion for natural disaster claims last year with weather causing 94 percent of incidents, underscoring...
Swiss Re’s latest sigma report preliminarily estimates that total economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters will reach approximately...
In its latest report Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team states: “Global natural disaster losses during the first...
Overall losses and insured losses from natural catastrophes during the first half of 2015 were below long-term average values, according...
An earthquake in Nepal on Tuesday killed at least 41 people and injured more than 1,000, a little over two...
The death toll from Nepal’s devastating earthquake rose steadily past 6,200 on Friday as fresh aftershocks and the stench of...
The cost to rebuild Nepal after its most devastating earthquake in eight decades will exceed $10 billion and take years,...