February 5, 2018
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) has appointed Dr. Roger Grenier as senior vice president of global resilience to lead AIR’s resilience initiatives across the globe. Grenier has 20 years of experience working with global risk models. He began his …
November 13, 2017
After one of the worst Atlantic hurricane seasons in history, the world’s biggest insurers say the industry needs to get its act together if it wants to survive climate change. Insuring against weather natural disasters could reach unaffordable levels for …
October 25, 2017
RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based global risk modeling and analytics firm, has opened a new office in Sydney, Australia, as part of its drive to support clients’ expansion in the Australian and New Zealand markets. The focus will be to help …
October 5, 2017
RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based risk modeling and analytics firm, has introduced a solution that enables underwriters to access critical information about any location globally, providing “a competitive advantage in risk assessment.” The new application programming interface (API) links insurers’ underwriting …
September 29, 2017
RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based risk modeling and analytics firm, estimated that the insured loss from Hurricane Maria will be between US$15 billion and US$30 billion. This estimate represents the insured losses associated with wind, storm surge and inland flood damage …
September 29, 2017
Lloyd’s of London insurer Beazley said on Friday it reckoned that its losses from hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in the Caribbean and southern United States and a series of earthquakes in Mexico would reduce its 2017 earnings by about …
September 26, 2017
Industry insured losses for Hurricane Maria in the Caribbean will be between US$40 billion and US$85 billion, according to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide. Puerto Rico alone accounts for more than 85 percent of the loss, said Boston-based AIR, which …
September 26, 2017
Lloyd’s, the specialist insurance and reinsurance market, announced Dr. Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace has been appointed as the head of Risk Aggregation. The role reports to Jon Hancock, the director of Performance Management, and is responsible for leading the strategy and day …
September 7, 2017
Florida hasn’t suffered a category 5 storm since Hurricane Andrew hit the north Miami area on Aug. 24 1992, but the risk of such a storm has not gone away or even declined. In fact, the state’s risk of destruction …
August 29, 2017
Damages from Hurricane Harvey’s ravaging of Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast are estimated to be well below those from the major storms that hit New Orleans and New York in recent years, insurance executives have said. Though insurers should …