Australia: PERILS raises insured loss estimate for Australia East Coast storms to around US$1bn

Published on February 3, 2026
PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organisation providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has disclosed that its second industry loss estimate for the Australia East Coast Severe
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