Markel Corporation announced Wednesday that Richard R. Whitt III, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Markel, p...
Who Pays? UN Climate Report Reignites Global Fight for Compensation
With this week’s U.N. climate science report laying bare the staggering economic costs and losses already face...
Article / 2 months ago
La Nina, Stuck Jet Stream Blamed for Unusually Warm Weather
La Nina, Stuck Jet Stream Blamed for Unusually Warm Weather
America's winter wonderland is starting out this season as anything but traditional. The calendar says December but for much of the country temperatures...
Article / 5 months ago
Industry Underestimating COVID Biz Interruption Losses: RenRe CEO
During an upbeat earnings call focused on how RenaissanceRe is using...
Article / 1 year ago
Zurich Private-Public Pandemic Option Gives Carriers Choice In Risk Sh...
Zurich Private-Public Pandemic Option Gives Carriers Choice In Risk Share
Adding to the mix of ideas for a public-private pandemic risk partnerships between insurers and the federal...
Article / 1 year ago
Aging U.S. Dams + Extreme Weather = Disaster: CM Risk Alerts
Aging U.S. Dams + Extreme Weather = Disaster: CM Risk Alerts
Experts fear that aging U.S. dams may not be able to handle the extreme weather events associated with climate change. Scientists warn that some U.S. coastal cities...
Article / 2 years ago
Global Warming Increasing Frequency of 100-Year Rainstorms: Risk Alert...
Global Warming Increasing Frequency of 100-Year Rainstorms: Risk Alerts
Global warming is intensifying rainstorms in North America. Rats are becoming more aggressive in their hunt for food due to pandemic lockdown measures...
Article / 2 years ago
The World's Weather Forecasts Are Weakened as Pandemic Idles Airplane ...
The World's Weather Forecasts Are Weakened as Pandemic Idles Airplane Flights
The pandemic that has idled scores of commercial flights is having a little-noticed consequence for meteorologists, whose forecasts rely in part on data collected...
Article / 2 years ago
Parametric Insurance Takes Off
Parametric Insurance Takes Off
Now that property and casualty insurance coverage terms for business disruption losses are gradually tightening, a singular insurance product used...
Article / 3 years ago
Wild U.S. Weather Switcheroo Could Further Soak Midwest, Dry Out South
Wild U.S. Weather Switcheroo Could Further Soak Midwest, Dry Out South
Different parts of the U.S. are set to see wildly disparate weather conditions next week, potentially rattling energy and agricultural markets...
Article / 3 years ago
El Nino's Calm Winds Harming U.S. Wind Power Producers
El Nino's Calm Winds Harming U.S. Wind Power Producers
Calm winds are hurting U.S. wind power producers. Unusually still weather in the upper Midwest and Great Plains in late 2018 has already taken a bite out of earnings at N...
Article / 3 years ago