Artemis has learned that FEMA has increased its estimate for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) losses from hurricane Helene, raising the figure to $6.75 billion and as a result two FloodSmart Re catastrophe bond tranches have had their maturity dates extended, with partial repayments of principal to be made.The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) … Read more
The insurance and reinsurance businesses of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway suffered from hurricane losses in the third-quarter with Helene and are expecting up to $1.5 billion of additional losses from hurricane Milton in the fourth-quarter.Reporting its third-quarter 2024 results today, Berkshire Hathaway revealed a steep decrease in insurance underwriting income to $750 million for the … Read more
According to the administrators of the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF), losses to the fund that provides a reinsurance-like reimbursement for a portion of residential property insurers’ hurricane losses from recent hurricanes Helene and Milton are expected to fall between $1.6 billion and as much as $6.2 billion.Paragon Strategic Solutions, the FHCF’s consulting actuary, puts … Read more
According to Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions division, combined industry losses from hurricanes Helene and Milton are expected to fall within a range of $34 billion to $50 billion, at which level insurance and reinsurance sector capital is well-positioned to absorb them and the events underscored the value of integrating innovative solutions such as parametrics.“The short-term prospect … Read more
By Lewis Nibbelin, Contributing Writer, Triple-I Spanning over 500 miles of the southeastern United States, Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction has drawn public attention to inland flood risk and the need for improved resilience planning and insurance purchase (“take up”) to confront the protection gap. Extreme rainfall and wind inflicted a combination of catastrophic flooding, … Read more
