Brazil’s Federal Police accused Vale SA and its Brazilian joint venture with BHP Billiton Ltd of environmental crime related to...
2015 catastrophes News
Tighter construction restrictions and incentives to build outside flood-prone areas would minimize damage to the U.K. economy from heavy rain...

Reinsurance capital levels stabilized during the Jan. 1, 2016 renewals – showing no growth for the first time in several...
Flooding in the final month of 2015 will put pressure on the earnings of U.K. property insurers, according to a...
Insurers paid out around $27 billion for natural disaster claims last year with weather causing 94 percent of incidents, underscoring...
Despite the signs of some pricing stabilization in property catastrophe during the June/July 2015 renewals, hopeful forecasts for a “softening...
Within hours of a deadly mining spill in November that would become Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, BHP Chief Executive Andrew...
Torrential rain and gale force winds battered northern Britain on Wednesday, cutting power to thousands of homes and forcing some...
Insurers are facing some of the costliest British floods on record as large parts of northern England, already inundated, brace...
Losses from wildfires that destroyed more than 100 homes along a popular tourist stretch in southeastern Australia more than doubled...