SCOR turns to the European authorities to contest the virtual monopoly of the Caisse Centrale de Réassurance (CCR) on natural catastrophe reinsurance in France.

SCOR issues a preliminary cost estimate for the series of Hailstorms in Germany of approximately EUR 50 million, after retrocession and reinstatements and before tax.

Hurricane is one of the most important perils to the insurance industry, representing 42% of all US insured catastrophe losses (Insurance Information Institute, 2013).

SCOR records net income of EUR 189 million in the first half 2013, despite high Nat Cat activity, a continued low yield environment and equity impairments.

SCOR announces the public release and the filing with the Autorité des marches financiers of its interim financial report for the six months ended 30 June 2013.

The June flood event in Alberta, which resulted in mass evacuations of people from their homes and major disruption to the Central Business District of Calgary, may ultimately become the largest insured loss in Canada

The major flooding in June of the Elbe, Danube and Vltava rivers generated widespread economic disruption and were the worst floods seen in central Europe since 2002.