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Japan and more specifically Tokyo lie at the intersection where the Pacific and Philippine Sea tectonic plates are pushed under Eurasia. It is not surprising then that megathrust earthquakes along...
BNamericas talks to Víctor Roldán, Latin America head at the world’s leading catastrophe risk modeling company RMS, about the region’s insurance gap...
With each new stride in hazard research and science comes the ability to better calculate and differentiate risk...
Speed of change around homeowners insurance is gathering pace as insurers move to differential pricing models...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risk Report was released a week ago, in time to generate discussion and provoke debate at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos...
(Free to read, details required) 2017 vividly illustrated the tremendous human and economic cost of natural disasters. Hurricanes Irma and Maria left vulnerable people in the Caribbean devastated...
How is climate change influencing natural perils and weather extremes, and what should reinsurance companies do to respond?...
The rallying cry has sounded — to “close the protection gap”, the difference between what is paid out by insurance and the total cost of some incident or disaster. Here is an issue that can unite and promote the...
New types of insurance could cut the costs of natural disasters for poorer countries and reduce the amount of humanitarian aid needed, according to a report...
New types of insurance could cut the costs of natural disasters for poorer countries and reduce the amount of humanitarian aid needed, according to a report commissioned by Britain's international development ministry. The cost of natural disasters to some of the world's poorest countries has averaged a total of $29.1 billion a year in the past 15 years, catastrophe modelling firm RMS said...
