MARCH 15, 2023 09:02 AM (EDT)
Best's Market Segment Report: French Insurers Reconsider Natural Catastrophe Assumptions Following Another Very Expensive Year
| Pierre Tournier Associate Director, Analytics +31 20 308 5423 pierre.tournier@ambest.com Morgane Hillebrandt Financial Analyst +31 20 308 5422 morgane.hillebrandt@ambest.com Mathilde Jakobsen Director, Analytics +31 20 808 3118 mathilde.jakobsen@ambest.com | Richard Banks Director, Industry Research – EMEA +44 20 7397 0322 richard.banks@ambest.com Edem Kuenyehia Director, Market Development & Communications +44 20 7397 0280 edem.kuenyehia@ambest.com |
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AMSTERDAM - MARCH 15, 2023 09:02 AM (EDT)
Growing frequency and severity of weather-related events such as drought, storms and wildfires are prompting French insurers and reinsurers to rethink their appetite and pricing for natural catastrophe risks, according to a new report from AM Best.
The Best’s Market Segment Report, “French Insurers Reconsider Natural Catastrophe Assumptions Following Another Very Expensive Year,” notes that record-breaking temperatures and severe droughts led to significant property damage losses in 2022. The latest estimate from France Assureurs puts insurers’ weather-related natural catastrophe losses for 2022 at around EUR 10 billion, prompting reinsurers to push up prices and tighten conditions in the January 1 renewals.
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