A report from catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide highlights “widespread flooding, landslides, wrecked roads and bridges, downed trees, and power outages” in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Koppu’s passage. The storm has finally moved over the Island of …
A huge global gap between disaster-related insured and economic losses presents a growth opportunity for P/C carriers, AIR Worldwide determined in a new report. What the catastrophe modeling firm found: the global insured average annual loss comes in at $74 …
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has developed a fully probabilistic flood model for Canada to help insurers and reinsurers better underwrite and manage their riverine and off-flood plain exposures. The model was developed in response to devastating …
Willis Re, the reinsurance division of Willis Group Holdings plc, has unveiled a new suite of flood solutions offering analytical capabilities that will enable insurers to proactively manage Canada flood accumulations. Based on the analytics provided by Willis Re’s strategic …
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday issued a report saying that managing the flooding risk along the North Atlantic coast from events like Superstorm Sandy is something that has to be done collaboratively by all levels of government …
Flooding during high tides, which used to be rare, is now common in some places and could worsen to the point that sections of coastal cities may flood so often they would become unusable in the near future, according to …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released new advisory maps for Manhattan that include the World Trade Center site in the zone seen as most at risk for flooding during a powerful coastal storm.The maps released this week were in …
The risk of significant flooding in the Red River Valley is down from recent years and even lower than last month’s forecast due to the lack of snow, forecasters said on Jan. 26 — bolstering hopes the region may be …
