The drought has spread across much of the country, creating extreme fire risks. But no place is more at risk than Missouri. The National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska rates Missouri’s fire risk as the highest in …
Federal regulators say a Southern California desert tire recycler’s 160,000 discarded tires are dangerous. The Environmental Protection Agency told Mecca’s Consolidated Tire Recyclers a year ago that the tires were a fire risk and the outdoor piles needed to be …
Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are asking the federal government for help to prevent possible flooding at Santa Clara Pueblo. Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan say the northern New Mexico Indian community is …
AIR Worldwide announced that it has “expanded its suite of Catastrophe Risk Engineering (CRE) solutions to help quantify, mitigate, and manage the risk associated with the impact of catastrophes on supply chain networks.” AIR said its new offering would “help …
BMW is recalling about 2,800 cars because a circuit board can overheat and cause a fire. The recall covers some 2011 and 2012 models of the 5-Series, 5-Series Gran Turismo, 6-Series convertible, 7-Series, X5 SAV and X6 SAV. The company …
Joe Plumeri, Willis Group Holdings Chairman and CEO, told attendees at the Willis Asia Pacific Aviation Insurance Conference in Hong Kong that air travel in Asia Pacific is set to significantly surpass that of North America and Europe in the …
Agents in Louisiana should be aware of a potential insurance scam related to habitation risks, according to the state’s top insurance regulator. Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon issued an alert to all licensed insurance producers, warning them of an …
MAPFRE Group’s David O’Gorman, URS Managing Director-Spain/Portugal/Latin America, announced that the group has “licensed Risk Explorer™, the Dynamic Financial Analysis (DFA) software and a suite of other products from Ultimate Risk Solutions (URS).” The bulletin described “Risk Explorer™” as the …
Business is lagging this year at the Boulder Outdoor Center in Colorado, where adventurers come to book and buy equipment for ski trips into the backcountry. Except, that is, in one area. The outfitter’s avalanche training courses keep selling out. …
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has released a new report – “Understanding Earthquake Risk in Japan Following the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake of March 11, 2011.” The report stresses that the “M9.0 Tohoku earthquake changed the seismic risk landscape of Japan. In …
