October 2015

In size and population, Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. Its principal natural hazard, flood, has for the most part occurred historically in areas where exposure values and insurance penetration are low.

As I outlined in an earlier blog post, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) has been busy strengthening Chinese solvency regulation and harmonizing it with regimes developing in Europe and Asia.

The double whammy hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 broke all sorts of records and left the insurance industry wondering if a new normal was establishing itself in the Atlantic basin. Has it?

Every year the Atlantic hurricane season keeps forecasters and insurers on their toes bracing for a potential hurricane strike in the Caribbean, Central America, or the United States. But what about Canada?

When it comes to the future, we can be certain about very little. We are all familiar with the success rate—or lack thereof—of weather forecasts.

In the recent AIR Currents article, Katrina 2015, AIR asks what levels of damage could be expected if a storm with the intensity, size, and track of 2005's Hurricane Katrina were to recur today.