Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has estimated that preliminary total insured catastrophe losses for the first quarter of 2025 reached $56 billion, which makes it the costliest first quarter for the private insurance market and government-sponsored insurance entities since 2011, and 176% higher than the Q1 decadal average of $20 billion (2015–2024).In its Q1 2025 Natural … Read more
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The impact of the historic Los Angeles-area wildfires is being broadly examined and continually refined, with updates almost daily on insured losses, total economic losses and damages, credit ratings—and lately worrying outlooks for the effect of the fires on insurance rates. Tens of thousands of properties will be ultimately lost when final counts come in, … Read more
Catastrophe risk modelling specialist Karen Clark & Company (KCC) estimates that the insured loss (from privately insured and FAIR plan policies) to residential, commercial, and industrial properties, and autos from both the Palisades and Eaton wildfires in Los Angeles will sit close to $28 billion.KCC becomes the latest risk modeller to release an initial estimate … Read more
Moody’s RMS Event Response said insured losses for the January 2025 Los Angeles fires will likely fall in the $20 billion to $30 billion range. The Jan. 17 estimate from Moody’s RMS came a day after CoreLogic put out a statement indicating a $35 to $45 billion range of insured losses for two major fires … Read more