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Actual U.S. homeowners’ loss ratio 10 points lower than modeled expected over past 10 years: Aon

October 16, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The catastrophe loss ratio, over 10 years, was 10 points lower than the modeled expected cat loss ratio in homeowners’ insurance in the United States, Aon plc suggested in a report released Monday. Aon Benfield Analytics released Monday its annual

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Hurricanes to date a capital event for reinsurers, 2017 could be even more costly Cat year than 2005

October 16, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The above-average activity for the Atlantic hurricanes season so far – a season that is not yet done – is already a capital event for p&c reinsurers and the remainder plus wildfire activity likely only contributes to nervousness, S&P Global

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Lloyd’s reports already paying US$738 million for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria

October 13, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The Lloyd’s market has now paid almost three quarters of a billion dollars (US$738 million) in response to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, the world’s specialist insurance market said on Thursday. “When you get three catastrophic weather events as well

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Brokers bend MPs’ ears over proposed tax changes

October 13, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Insurance brokers are among the professionals expressing concern over proposed changes to federal taxes on business income, a Saskatchewan member of parliament said recently. On October 6, the majority of House of Commons members voted against continuing consultations on proposed

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Cat bonds including Canadian coverage totalled $2.8 billion in first nine months of 2017: PCS

October 12, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Sponsors raised $2.8 billion through catastrophe bond transactions that included Canada, “the most robust year in catastrophe bond market history,” Property Claims Services (PCS) said in a new report. Bigger and More Mature: PCS Q3 2017 Catastrophe Bond Report was

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Bermuda’s global insurers, reinsurers could fund at least US$25 billion of insured losses from hurricanes

October 11, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Bermuda market firms may fund at least a quarter of the estimated US$100 billion in aggregate insured losses from hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, suggest preliminary aggregated loss estimates from the Association of Bermuda Insurers & Reinsurers (ABIR). “Based on

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Landscaping ‘absolutely key’ to reducing wildfire risk: ICLR

October 11, 2017 by Greg Meckbach, Associate Editor

Canadian property owners can do more to “take the weak links” out of the chain of events causing homes to burn from wildfire, a speaker suggested at the recent Annual Engineering Insurance Conference (AEIC). “How a property is landscaped is

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Mexico earthquake and three hurricanes could cost the industry US$95 billion: SCOR

October 10, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Catastrophe losses “should reach” US$95 billion, for the private insurance market, from three recent North Atlantic hurricanes and the earthquake in Mexico, SCOR SE suggested Monday. That figure is the “total private insured market loss for the combined Harvey-Irma-Maria hurricanes

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OSFI to release reinsurance discussion paper, likely by early next year

October 10, 2017 by Jason Contant, Online Editor

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) will release a discussion paper related to reinsurance, likely early next year, Neville Henderson, assistant superintendent of the regulator’s insurance supervision sector, said last week. Speaking at the National Insurance Conference

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Move critical infrastructure protection burden ‘on to the back’ of reinsurers: engineering conference speaker

October 6, 2017 by Greg Meckbach, Associate Editor

A lack of insurance coverage for critical infrastructure is one reason for the growing gap between insured and economic losses and 2017 “is going to be the costliest year in world insurance history,” a speaker said Thursday at the 44th

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Megadeals, political instability and strong equity markets deliver M&A underperformance for insurers: WTW

October 6, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Insurers undertaking mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in 2016 underperformed their non-acquisitive peers for the first time since 2010, Willis Towers Watson (WTW) reported earlier this week. According to WTW’s latest Insurance M&A Performance Tracker – based on analysis of deals

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Beware ‘event amnesia’ following Fort McMurray wildfire, NICC speaker warns

October 5, 2017 by Jason Contant, Online Editor

Following Canada’s costliest natural disaster, Fort McMurray may be more resilient in the short- and medium-term, but there needs to be an avoidance of “event amnesia,” a speaker suggested earlier this week at the National Insurance Conference of Canada (NICC).