Risk Modeling for the Future
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has celebrated its fiftieth-year at its annual meeting in Davos. Increasingly the business/political nexus has become that...
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White Island Risk Mitigation: A Role for Insurance
Safety from volcanic eruptions is heavily influenced by economic factors. Those who earn their livelihood from farming around a volcano may be reluctant to...
- RMS / Article / 1 month ago
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Newcastle: Thirtieth Anniversary of Australia’s Largest Earthquake Loss. But What If…?
Over the past 15 years, we have witnessed some of the world’s largest possible recorded earthquakes that have had catastrophic impacts around the globe...
- RMS / Article / 1 month ago
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Twenty Years After Storms Anatol, Lothar and Martin: Memories From the End of the Millennium
Twenty years ago, while the planet was getting ready for transitioning to year 2000 and trying to solve the Y2K bug, the (re)insurance industry in Europe got...
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Nine Years After Darfield: When an Earthquake Drives a New Model – Part One
The Source Model The 2010 M7.1 Darfield earthquake in New Zealand started a sequence of events that propagated eastward in the Canterbury region over...
- RMS / Article / 2 months ago
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Crossing the Terrorism Casualty Protection Gap
This blog was first published as an article in Insurance Day The victims of the Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, the injured and the dependents of the...
- RMS / Article / 2 months ago
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RMS Estimates Insured Losses From Typhoon Hagibis To Be Between USD $7 Billion To $11 Billion
RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk modeling company, has estimated insured losses stemming from Typhoon Hagibis in Japan will be between USD $7 billion to $11 billion...
- RMS / Article / 3 months ago
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Current flood defenses in the U.K. reduce annual losses from river flooding by £1.1 billion, according to research by RMS...
- RMS / Article / 3 months ago
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Re-evaluating TRIA
The main topic of discussion within the terrorism insurance marketplace currently relates to the U.S. Terrorism Risk Insurance Protection and Reauthorization...
- RMS / Article / 4 months ago
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Severe convective storms: A new peak peril?
Severe convective storms (SCS) have driven U.S. insured catastrophe losses in recent years with both attritional and major single-event claims now rivaling an average hurricane season...
- RMS / Article / 4 months ago
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