Chaucer Holdings PLC, the specialist Lloyd’s insurance group, has announced that it has reduced its best estimate for claims arising from the 2010 New Zealand earthquake and Australian floods. Chaucer previously reported that its combined estimated total loss from these …
Catastrophe modeling firm EQECAT has issued a bulletin describing the potential insured market losses and summarizing the various impacts of Japan’s insurance market with its specific inclusions and exclusions. Earthquake Shaking (EQ Shake) EQECAT identified this as the biggest exposure …
The unexpected nature of this week’s earthquake in Japan, plus the damage from the subsequent tsunami and fires, makes estimating insured losses from the disaster especially difficult, senior executives at two top catastrophe risk modeling firms said Saturday. About $24 …
