Mexico
Non-Compulsory Insurance Products Offer Future Opportunities for Growth in Mexico
According to a new report by Timetric, only 5% of mortgage-free homes, 26.5% of mortgaged homes and a quarter of all cars were insured...
Impact Forecasting launches Mexican flood model with latest regional hazard data
Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, has launched a new flood scenario-based model for Mexico to quantify financial...
AIR Worldwide : Hurricane Barbara makes landfall, brings op to 16 inches of rain
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Hurricane Barbara, the second hurricane of the 2013 Pacific season, made landfall in the state of Chiapas...
XL Group : strengthens its insurance operation in Mexico
The Insurance operations of XL Group has announced the appointment of Joan Lanzagorta as Client & Distribution Leader for its operation in Mexico, effective...
AIR Worldwide : insured losses estimated Less than USD 52 Million
After striking a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast on October 11 as a Category 2 hurricane, Jova weakened as it traveled inland...
AIR Worldwide : Hurricane Jova makes landfall on Mexico’s Southwest Pacific Coast
Hurricane Jova made landfall as a Category 2 storm in a sparsely populated stretch of the Mexican state of Jalisco, near the town of...
Hurricane : Beatriz makes landfall, bringing heavy rains to Mexico’s Pacific coast
Beatriz, the second storm of the Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season, has strengthened to hurricane status after it has formed off the coast of South-western...
Weather warning : Hurricane Paula
Hurricane Paula dumped rain on the Caribbean resort of Cancun on Wednesday as it moved away from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula toward western Cuba.
Paula, a...
Bermuda : hurricane Igor one of the worst storms
Hurricane Igor hit Bermuda with ferocious winds, waves and rain on Sunday in one of the worst storms to hit the British overseas territory....
Weather warning : hurricanes Karl, Igor and Julia headed for Gulf of Mexico
Tropical Storm Karl picked up power as it moved across the southwestern Gulf of Mexico and was expected to become a hurricane later on...
Health: New Zealand still experiencing ‘significant’ swine flu
New Zealand is still experiencing a significant level of swine flu, health authorities said Wednesday, despite the World Health Organization's declaration that the global...
Swiss Re says it weathers oil spill costs with big profit
Swiss Re, one of the world's biggest reinsurers, reported on Thursday an 812-million-dollar second-quarter net profit despite the cost of disaster damage from the...
Pakistan hit by worst floods since 1929
Aon Benfield, the world’s premier reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, today releases the latest edition of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which provides an...
Hurricane Alex threatens Mexico, Texas
Hurricane Alex picked up strength in the western Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, heading towards northeastern Mexico and Texas and disrupting oil cleanup operations...
Baja California quake causes USD 1 billion economic loss in Mexico
Aon Benfield, the world’s premier reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, today releases its latest Monthly Cat Recap report, which provides an analysis of global...
Mexico City offers insurance to bring back tourists
Mexico City on Tuesday introduced free insurance for tourists in a bid to bring back visitors scared away after the swine flu epidemic broke...
AIG to complete sale of its consumer finance operation in Mexico
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) today announced that it has closed the sale of its consumer finance operations in Mexico
