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Spanish floods to have limited effect on S&P's insurer ratings

Reinsurers' share of insured natcat losses halved in 2023, S&P Global estimates

Many catastrophes were too small to trigger treaty cover, webinar hears

Australian cyclone pool faces just 25% of claims costs it expected in 2023/24

S&P Global names Australia as fourth costliest natcat jurisdiction for insurers

Hurricane Milton could exhaust US P&C insurers' natcat budgets

S&P Global Ratings says Milton is poised to be a significant event for the global reinsurance industry

Why some reinsurers have weaker credit profiles than their rating suggests

Reinsurance carriers that are part of a group can often have different credit profiles than are implied by their credit ratings, as Stuart Shipperlee explains

Japan's insurers preparing to accept more cancer-related risks

S&P Global Ratings says market enjoys high and stable profit margins

S&P Global monitors funded reinsurance risk in Japan

Ratings agency welcomes post-scandal reforms in non-life sector

Australia's health insurers hit 26-year peak in customer numbers in 2023

But S&P Global Ratings warns about return of higher cost inflation

IFRS 17 is "two steps forward, one step back" for insurance accounting

Updated standard removes asset-liability mismatch, but impedes comparability, says S&P

Australian non-life reinsurance costs rise 44% in seven years, S&P Global finds

Premium growth outstripped reinsurance hikes over period