Wildfire: Managing a Peak Peril
A new wildfire season looms on the horizon across the United States, and as the last two years of huge wildfire insured losses and extensive devastation to...
- RMS / Article / 14 days ago
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Spring into Action: U.S. Severe Convective Storm Season Spins Up
Last weekend (April 13-14) marked the first major U.S. severe convective storm (SCS) outbreak of 2019....
- RMS / Article / 1 month ago
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Cricket Balls from the Sky: Twenty-Year Retrospective on the 1999 Sydney Hailstorm
Still ranked within the top three largest insured loss events in Australia’s history, it has now been twenty years since a hailstorm shattered roofs...
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On Monday, March 18, 2019, Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest aluminum producers, announced the replacement of its CEO, who had left the company through early retirement. This followed admissions...
- RMS / Article / 2 months ago
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New Zealand Earthquake Risk: It’s All in the Details
Across the global risk management community, we are bombarded by new information every day. As risk professionals we have...
- RMS / Article / 3 months ago
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Townsville in the Trough
Two people died and thousands of properties in the North Queensland coastal city of Townsville (pop. ~168,000) have been...
- RMS / Article / 4 months ago
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How Will Insurers Be Affected by Changes in New Zealand EQC Coverage Layers?
Around 98 percent of residential homes in New Zealand have earthquake insurance. This remarkable achievement is due to a unique partnership between the New Zealand...
- RMS / Article / 4 months ago
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The flood insurance protection gap in the United States is massive, but the take-up rate of private flood insurance continues to be low...
- RMS / Article / 4 months ago
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Examples of data theft continue to stream through; no one brand seems immune from having to announce major losses of customer data records...
- RMS / Article / 4 months ago
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Hurricane Florence Demonstrates Perils of Being Underinsured/Uninsured - Insurance Journal
Hurricane Florence caused extensive freshwater flood damage in the Carolinas and parts of Virginia in September—and about 70 percent of those flood losses...
- RMS / Article / 4 months ago
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