German storms News

Insurance Costs for Windstorm Egon Rise to €234M ($243M): PERILS

The revised estimate of property insurance losses for Windstorm Egon, which hit France and Germany on Jan. 12-13, 2017, is €234 million ($243 million), according to PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data. The cold …

Tornado Hits Hamburg – Latest in Europe’s Destructive Summer Storms

A tornado tore through the northeast of Hamburg on Tuesday evening, blowing off the roofs of several buildings, uprooting dozens of trees and damaging cars and a power line as storms that have raged across Europe this month continue to …