World's Best Insurance Companies

$ millions)         Insured losses (2)   Rank Date Location Overall losses when occurred Dollars when occurred In 2014 dollars (3) Fatalities 1 Jan. 17, 1994 California: Northridge, Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, Ventura, Orange $44,000 $15,300 $24,440 61 2 Apr. 18, 1906 California: San Francisco, Santa Rosa, San Jose 524 180 4,300 (4) 3,000 3 Oct. 17, 1989 California: Loma Prieta, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Silicon Valley 10,000 960 1,830 68 4 Feb. 28, 2001 Washington: Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma; Oregon 2,000 300 400 1 5 Mar. 27-28, 1964 Alaska: Anchorage, Kodiak Island, Seward, Valdez, Portage, Whittier, Cordova, Homer, Seldovia 540 45 340 131 6 Feb. 9, 1971 California: San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles 553 35 200 65 7 Oct. 1, 1987 California: Los Angeles, Whittier 360 75 160 8 8 Aug. 24, 2014 California: Napa, Vallejo, Solano, Sonoma, American Canyon 700 150 150 1 9 Apr. 4, 2010 California: San Diego, Calexico, El Centro, Los Angel

$ millions)         Losses when occurred    Rank Date Event Location Overall  Insured (2) Fatalities 1 Mar. 11, 2011 Earthquake, tsunami Japan: Aomori, Chiba, Fukushima, lbaraki, lwate, Miyagi, Tochigi, Tokyo, Yamagata $210,000 $40,000 15,880 2 Feb. 22, 2011 Earthquake New Zealand: Canterbury, Christchurch, Lyttelton 24,000 16,500 185 3 Jan. 17, 1994 Earthquake USA: CA: Northridge, Los Angeles, San Femando Valley, Ventura, Orange 44,000 15,300 61 4 Feb. 27, 2010 Earthquake, tsunami Chile: Concepcion, Metropolitana, Rancagua, Talca, Temuco, Valparaiso 30,000 8,000 520 5 Sep. 4, 2010 Earthquake New Zealand: Canterbury, Christchurch, Avonside, Omihi, Timaru, Kaiapoi, Lyttelton 10,000 7,400 NA 6 Jan. 17, 1995 Earthquake Japan: Hyogo, Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto 100,000 3,000 6,430 7 Jun. 13, 2011 Earthquake New Zealand: Canterbury, Christchurch, Lyttelton 2,700 2,100 1 8 May 20 and May 29, 2012 Earthquake (series) Italy: Emilia-Romagna, San Felice del Panaro, Cavezzo,

WORLD On Saturday April 25, 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. Thousands of people were killed and many more injured. Aftershocks from the earthquake could persist for years according to  geologists . Only a small fraction of the economic losses are covered by insurance. Operating in one of the world’s poorest nations, Nepal’s insurers collected $102 million in premiums for non-life coverages in 2013, according to Axco Insurance Information Services. The deadliest earthquake in 2014 resulted from a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that hit Wenping in the Yunnan Province of China in August, with 731 people killed or missing. Economic losses totaled $5 billion, according to Swiss Re. There were a total of 15 catastrophic earthquakes in 2014, one of them in the United States, in South Napa, California. Insured losses from earthquakes and tsunamis were $313 million in 2014, higher than the $45 million in insured losses resulting from earthquakes in 2012 but far below 2011’s record

($ millions)       Losses when occurred   Rank Date Location Overall Insured Fatalities 1 Jan. 12, 2010 Haiti: South: Port-au-Prince, Petionville, Jacmel, Carrefour, Leogane, Petit Goave, Gressier $8,000 $200 222,570 2 Dec. 26, 2004 Sri Lanka; Indonesia; Thailand; India; Bangladesh; Myanmar; Maldives; Malaysia. Includes tsunami. (2) 10,000 1,000 220,000 3 Oct. 8, 2005 Pakistan; India; Afghanistan 5,200 5 88,000 4 May 12, 2008 China: Sichuan, Mianyang, Beichuan, Wenchuan, Shifang, Chengdu, Guangyuan, Ngawa, Ya'an 85,000 300 84,000 5 Jun. 20-21, 1990 Iran, Islamic Republic of: Caspian Sea, Gilan province, Manjil, Rudbar; Zanjan, Safid, Qazvin 7,100 100 40,000 6 Dec. 26, 2003 Iran, Islamic Republic of: Bam 500 19 26,200 7 Dec. 7, 1988 Armenia: Spitak, Kirowakan, Leninakan, Stepanavan; Turkey 14,000 NA 25,000 8 Aug. 17, 1999 Turkey: Izmit, Istanbul, Golcuk, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Yalova 12,000 600 17,118 9 Mar. 3, 2011 Japan: Honshu, Aomori, Tohoku; Miyagi, Sendai