Hurricane
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Panellists at the Insurance Insider ILS conference say forecasts can push capital to “the edges” of the market.
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Researchers expect 15-20 named storms to form in the Atlantic Basin.
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Sources said preparations for a 2024 IPO were halted, but work could resume later this year.
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Inver Re used data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to model the impacts of global warming for a Category 1 hurricane making landfall in Florida.
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The National Flood Insurance Programme could face a loss of around $500mn from the hurricane, according to the estimate.
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Hurricane Idalia is still live, but the storm’s track reassured market participants that it will be a relatively minor loss.
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Idalia might add further aggregate erosion to several cat bonds covering various perils over an annual risk period, it stated.
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With Hurricane Idalia’s landfall underway loss estimates are uncertain, but sources noted that the storm’s trajectory shows it taking the best path to impact minimal insured values in Florida.
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The update projections for wind only show a 20% likelihood of losses approaching $11.7bn.
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More than 800,000 houses could be affected by the hurricane’s storm surge.
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If the storm steers clear of Tampa, reinsurers will be well placed for minimal losses, but a retention loss is a further blow for weak Floridians.
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Hurricane Idalia will reach Jacksonville but will have weakened by then
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The Cat-4 storm is likely to weaken as it approaches the California coast.
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There has never been a named storm to form in the eastern tropical Atlantic this early in the season.
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The forecaster is predicting there could be as many as 14 hurricanes in the North Atlantic between June and November.
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has forecast “near-normal" hurricane activity in the Atlantic this year.
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Higher rates and reserve releases connected to Hurricane Ian boosted results.
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The firm’s flood solution will be available to layer on top of existing parametric hurricane wind policies.
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Hurricane Ian’s legacy will undoubtedly lead to some shake-ups in the ILS sector, with ongoing progression outside cat and ESG strategies likely to be a focus.
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The reinsurer emphasised the need for improved secondary peril models including predictive capabilities.
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Frontier Advisors said sentiment continues to be challenged by performance.
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The new loss pick takes into account litigation and inflation costs, as well as claims activity to date.
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Most ILS firms are marking the Ian loss as a $50bn+ event, although there are exceptions.
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The bonds had been heavily marked down initially.
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Hurricane Ian losses at United Insurance Holdings (UPC) Insurance have nearly reached the top of its personal lines reinsurance tower, company executives said on its earnings call.
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The sector’s performance was better overall compared with September 2017.
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FloodSmart Re bonds recovered by a few points in October after initial steep write-downs following Ian.
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For larger top-end ILW triggers, cedants may have to be pragmatic on rolling over capital.
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A special session in December and prohibition of assignments of benefits have been cited on the Florida campaign trail.
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The firm’s capital and risk solutions segment has been growing its reinsurance business this year.
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The analysts said market pricing indicators suggested a hard market was going to set in, requiring increases of 20%-30%.
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The federal flood insurance program’s claims count has stepped up from 25,000 a fortnight ago.
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Major questions confront the industry after Hurricane Ian, but no matter the answers, certain outcomes are inevitable.
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Buyers are more open than ever to different sources of capacity, but the timing of entry will not be on the industry’s terms.
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The state insurance body received reports of 375,293 claims as of 6 October.
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Hurricane Ian could present a challenge for ILS fundraising conversations this autumn if ILS firms do not find more financing solutions to manage trapped capital, according to panellists at Trading Risk New York 2022 last week.
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