Munich Re: Catastrophe Costs Set to Reach Record in 2011
The world’s biggest reinsurer by revenue said on Tuesday that the earthquake — which hit Japan with a magnitude of 9.0 in March — was the most expensive natural catastrophe on record in terms of economic losses.
It cost about $210 billion, more than the $125 billion of economic losses caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and killed at least 15,500 people.
However, in terms of insured losses of about $30 billion, the Japanese earthquake remained below the level of Katrina.
Overall insured losses from catastrophes in the first half of this year — those losses which insurers and reinsurers will have to cover — were $60 billion, almost five times the first-half average since 2001.
Munich Re competes with Swiss Re and Hannover Re of Germany.
(Reporting by Maria Sheahan)
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