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Australian Disasters: The Reinsurers Hit Hardest

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Beginning December 2010, a series of floods devastated the Australian state of Queensland, three-quarters of which was declared a disaster zone. The latest reports claim the floods killed 35, affected at least 70 towns and cost insurers more than $2 billion, with Cyclone Yasi possibly costing another $500 to $800 million, according to the Insurance Council of Australia.

Karl Sullivan, the council’s general manager of risk and disaster has said insurance companies have received 73,000 claims for the Queensland floods and Cyclone Yasi combined. The following is a list of the insurers most affected by Australian catastrophes (estimates):

Munich Re: The reinsurer was hit hardest with claims totaling $365 million. The company’s fourth quarter profit declined 38% due to the Australian floods plus other costly losses. Munich Re was hit in 2010 by the Chile earthquake (claims of $1 billion) and also affected by September’s earthquake in New Zealand (claims of $460 million).

Chief Financial Officer Joerg Schneider said that “despite weighty major losses, which also affected us at the end of the year, we are presenting a good result.”

Partner Re: The Pembroke, Bermuda-based company announced yesterday that they expect losses of between $80 and $100 million due to the floods and storms that hit Australia. Furthermore, it has stated that its 2010 profits have been dented due to the back-to-back natural disasters.

XL Group: The company has seen first quarter losses of $75 to $95 million related to Australian floods. The company, however, beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly operating profit, due mostly to higher premiums from its property/casualty segment.

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Hanover Re: The reinsurer, the world’s third largest, is expecting losses of $56 to $100 million from Australia’s natural disasters. The company is optimistic after negotiating better-than-expected renewal rates, however.

“For 2011 we see sufficient opportunities for selective profitable growth,” Ulrich Wallin, chief executive officer of the Hanover, Germany-based reinsurer, told reporters during a briefing at the company’s headquarters. “We shall concentrate on segments where prices are rising or where they adequately reflect the risks.”

Transatlantic Holdings: The company expects catastrophe losses to come in between $50 million and $100 million due to the Australian weather events. Like others, the company remains optimistic about future earnings growth.

“We achieved strong earnings for the quarter and year despite an elevated level of industry catastrophe loss activity. Book value per share increased 13% in the last twelve months and 43% since the end of 2008.

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1 billion in 2010,” said Robert F. Orlich, President and Chief Executive Officer.

D&O Liability and Climate Change

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With climate change increasingly becoming a hot-button issue in courtrooms and among regulators, the risk that directors and officers may become the targets of  lawsuits based on their companies’ climate change-related disclosures is becoming more likely. In an online-exclusive article for Risk Management, attorneys William Passannante and Alex Hardiman of Anderson, Kill & Olick examine this issue and offer some insight into how companies should respond to this growing threat.

The increased regulatory activity and private litigation activity surrounding the climate change issue suggests future increased liabilities. While the treatment of liability for climate change related issues by the courts and governmental entities is in an early stage of evolution, the liability and regulatory machinery are grinding forward. Ensuring that corporate indemnities and insurance are in place to respond is an important step.

For more on this emerging risk, read the complete article, only on RMmagazine.com.

Jan/Feb Issue of Risk Management Now Online

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Faithful readers: the January/February issue of Risk Management magazine is now online. The cover story focuses on women’s struggles and successes within the risk management and insurance industry. Other features explore the rising risk of pirate threats on the high seas, the 3 worst assumptions risk managers make and how a new SEC rule changed the way companies look at risk management.

Our columns explore topics such as insurers reaction to the Fed’s spending, the biggest risks of 2011, the property/casualty market in 2011 and an engaging Q&A with Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer.

If you enjoy what you seen online, you can subscribe to the print edition to enjoy even more content.

Please let us know what you think in the comments below. And stay tuned to the blog for even more coverage in the future. Lastly, you can follow the magazine on Twitter, “like” us on Facebook and join our LinkedIn group.

WEF Spotlights Insurers, Risk Response Network

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The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) kicked off yesterday in Davos, Switzerland, welcoming more than 2,500 business leaders, politicians and social activists.

A laundry list of issues awaited those in attendance, from the global economy to Eurozone debt to responsible capitalism to preventing the next financial crisis.

These issues, along with several others, are what prompted the WEF to form the Risk Response Network (RRN), “to better understand, manage and respond to complex, interdependent risk.”  In response to the new RRN, Kevin Steinberg, chief operating officer for the WEF in the United States commented:

“Over the past several years, the world has been very reactive. If you look at the number of crises that have hit from financial to social to economic ones, almost everybody has felt they’ve been trying to avoid falling off the cliff.

One of the moods we’re starting to see here in Davos is the sense we need to be more proactive. We need to think about risk not only in terms of responding to events after the fact but structuring our thinking before, being prepared.”

The RNN will be comprised of risk officers from top corporations, governments and global risk regulating bodies who will draw from the WEF’s own knowledge and insight with the aim of helping decision-makers better understand risks and respond to them proactively. The project also involves WEF-led partnerships that mobilize rapid response teams after disasters.

In other news from Davos, insurers became the topic of conversation when the question was raised as to whether large insurers should be included in a shortlist by regulators “for big players in need of more safeguards to avoid posing a threat to the whole financial system” These “big players” are known as Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs), and even though it has been said time and time again that insurance companies are not inherently systemic, the questions arises yet again. Needless to say, insurance execs at the WEF resisted being grouped as a SIFI.

“I don’t see any reason to elevate the status of insurers in a way that they are systemic,” said Dieter Wemmer, Chief Financial Officer at Swiss insurer Zurich Financial Services. Sometimes the word systemic is being used very loosely and we should understand what it means.”

‘Round and ’round we go…