Insurance news from Hurricane Sandy reveals many struggling with lack of coverage

Homeowners flood Insurance

Uninsured homeowners, renters, auto and business owners are facing massive losses. Though Hurricane Sandy left devastation along the eastern coast of the United States, those who are making insurance news with the most acute financial struggles are the people who did not have coverage for what was lost. Those with policies may have deductibles to face and a long road of recovery ahead, but they’re the lucky ones. When the insurance news involves individuals who have a policy, it is tragic that their home was damaged or that possessions were…

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AIR Worldwide Launches Inland Flood Model for Germany

BOSTON, Nov. 7, 2011 – Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) released an inland flood model for Germany that offers a fully probabilistic approach for determining the likelihood of flood losses from all types of storms. The model provides insurers and reinsurers with a robust tool for managing inland flood risk – allowing companies to make informed underwriting decisions, to monitor and quantify aggregate concentrations of flood risk across their portfolios, and to assess the potential impact of less frequent but large loss events. “To meet the challenge of…

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State Farm reports losses due to weather-related catastrophes

State Farm, one of the nation’s largest insurance companies has released information regarding the cost of a number of weather-related catastrophes that have caused widespread damage this year. These disasters, coming in the form of floods, hurricanes and earthquakes, have taken a heavy toll on the insurance industry as a whole. Earlier in the year, State Farm attempted to mitigate the damage caused by an outbreak of tornados and hail storms that swept through the Eastern U.S. This past summer brought more trouble, however, with wildfires in Texas and tropical…

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AIR Worldwide Estimates Insured Losses in the Caribbean from Hurricane Irene at

BOSTON, Aug. 26, 2011 -AIR Worldwide estimates that insured losses in the Caribbean from Hurricane Irene will be between USD 500 million and USD 1.1 billion. AIR expects the Bahamas will account for more than 60% of the insured loss-between USD 300 million and USD 700 million. This estimate includes wind and precipitation-induced flood damage to insured onshore residential, commercial and industrial properties (and their contents), automobiles, and business interruption losses in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, and other Caribbean territories. Hurricane Irene has exited the…

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