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States Declare Emergency as Winter Storms Herald $100M Economic Loss: Report

At least four separate winter storms impacted the United States in February. The most deadly was a powerful Nor’easter which killed at least 15 people and affected more than 60 million citizens. A state of emergency was declared in six …

Philippines Super Typhoon Bopha Causes Close to $950M in Damage

The December Global Catastrophe Recap report by Impact Forecasting reveals that Super Typhoon Bopha damaged or destroyed more than 216,000 homes in 34 provinces including Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley, which sustained extensive damage. Economic losses to agriculture, infrastructure and …

UK Flood Insurance Losses Hit Five Year High: Aon Report

The recent flooding the United Kingdom experienced last month, which killed at least four people and damaged more than 1,100 homes, raised flood insurance losses there to around $1.6 billion for 2012, making it the costliest flood year since 2007, …

Asia Facing $8B Economic Loss Due to September Flooding: Aon Report

Of the more than $7.5 billion in economic losses recorded in Asia, China sustained much of that loss as two separate flood events affected several provinces, according to the latest edition of Aon Benfield’s Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews …

Report: July Flooding in China Causes $8.3B in Economic Losses

Flooding caused more than $8.3 billion in economic losses across China during July, while the worst drought in decades worsened across much of the United States, according to the latest edition of the Global Catastrophe Recap report released by Aon …

Aon: Severe Weather Insured Losses Near $2B in June

Insured losses due to catastrophic weather events near $2 billion in June, according to Aon Benfield’s latest edition of its Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews natural disaster perils worldwide. Published by Impact Forecasting, the firm’s catastrophe model development center, …

Aon: Deadly Italy Earthquakes Result in $6B Economic Loss

The two earthquakes and subsequent aftershocks that struck northern Italy within a nine-day period, killing 25 people, injuring more than 400 others caused a combined an estimated economic loss estimate of $6.25 billion, according to the latest Aon Benfield’s Global …

Severe Weather Insured Losses Approach $1B in April

A series of severe weather events across central and southern sections of the United States in April caused upwards of $1 billion in insured losses, according to Aon Benfield’s latest edition of its Global Catastrophe Recap report. During last month’s …

March Deadly And Costly Month in Parts of the United States

A significant severe weather outbreak affected parts of the U.S. Midwest, the Tennessee Valley and the Southeast during the first week of March, killing at least 41 people. The U.S. Storm Prediction Center (SPC) cited at least 65 tornado touchdowns, …

Aon Report: January Sees No Major Natural Disaster Event

Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corporation, released its latest Global Catastrophe Recap report, which analyses the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during January. The report reveals that while there was no single major …