18 August 2016Insurance

Insured catastrophe losses up 51% YOY in H1 2016

Earthquake in Japan, thunderstorms in the US and Europe, and wildfires in Canada collectively caused $31 billion of insured losses in the first half of 2016, up 51 percent from the same period in 2015, according to estimates made by Swiss Re ahead of its sigma report.

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