Hurricanes

IUMI Preview: Charting a course

With the sector suffering major losses, long-term sustainability is high on the agenda at this year’s International Union of Marine Insurance conference. Can the market navigate the choppy waters?

Financing the growing costs of disasters

Reto Schnarwiler, head of global partnerships for Swiss Re, Americas and EMEA says that a lack of insurance and the growing costs of disasters are hitting individuals and governments hard. He explores how government partnerships with insurers can help…

Editor's comment: Testing our mettle

US voters were still heading to the polls as Post went to press. But with many north eastern states operating makeshift polling stations and still without electricity a week after superstorm Sandy made landfall, the closely fought election was shaping up…

Munich Re estimates Sandy losses close to £400m

Munich Re has estimated its share of the losses from superstorm Sandy at the "mid three-digit million" euro range, despite the high number of individual losses making it difficult to assess the extent of the damage.

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