earthquake
Aon Benfield ILS Indices represent key industry benchmarking tool
Aon Benfield Securities, the securities and investment banking operation of Aon Benfield, the world’s premier reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, today announces the launch...
Insurer Zurich posts 76-percent profit jump in first quarter
Swiss insurer Zurich Financial Services said on Thursday that its first-quarter net profits soared 76 percent to 935 million dollars (729 million euros), despite...
Investments rescue Munich Re’s quarterly earnings
German insurance group Munich Re posted a better-than-expected second quarter net profit on Wednesday owing to earnings from investments, and raised slightly a full-year...
Aon Benfield announces academic and industry research collaboration
Aon Benfield, the world’s premier reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, is broadening its capabilities and bringing together its academic and industry research relationships under...
Insurer Zurich posts 76 percent profit jump in first quarter
Swiss insurer Zurich Financial Services on Thursday said its first quarter net profits soared 76 percent to 935 million dollars (729 million euros), despite...
Swiss Re insurance profits dampened by disaster damage
Swiss Re, one of the world's biggest reinsurers, on Thursday reported a surge in first quarter profit although its results were dampened by losses...
400 killed, thousands injured in China quake
A strong earthquake and aftershocks rattled northwestern China’s Qinghai Province over the last 15 hours, killing at least 400 and injuring over 10,000, according...
Reinsurer Swiss Re estimated a big disaster bill in 2010
Disasters killed 15,000 people and cost the world 62 billion dollars in 2009, but the insurance industry could face a financial bill five times...
Chile : Swiss Re estimates that earthquake may cost up to 7 billion dollars to insurers
Reinsurance giant Swiss Re on Wednesday estimated that insurers will have to pay up to 7.0 billion dollars (5.16 billion euros) for damages arising...
Munich Re says recent disasters won’t blow it off course
Germany's Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer, said on Wednesday it was confident of a strong 2010 despite claims from the Chilean earthquake and...
Barack Obama declares Samoa Tsuami as ‘major disaster’
United States President Barack Obama declared American Samoa as "a major disaster", after the remote Pacific island was hit by a tsunami that left...
Taiwan insurers report preliminary losses from typhoon morakot
According to the insurer's statement filed with the Taiwan Stock Exchange, the damages caused by the typhoon have "not led to a material impact...
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