Risk
Why Greed Isn’t Good
Imagine yourself betting on the long- term survival of two types of people. One is the classic egoist, focused and ruthless. The other is more selfless, willing to help fellow humans without any ...
Insurer Challenges In ‘Adapting’ To The Climate Change Resilience Gap
The frequency and severity of natural catastrophe impacts to built assets are increasing. Governments and their taxpayers are taking increasing shares of disaster relief from such events, creating an ...
QBE Begins Payouts for Spain Train Victims
Australian insurance group QBE said on Thursday it had set aside 2.75 million euros ($3.64 million) for the immediate needs of those affected by last week's train crash in Galicia in northwest Spain, ...
P/C Insurers Face Challenges If Terrorism Risk Insurance Is Not Renewed: Fitch
If Congress fails to renew or makes significant changes to the federal government's terrorism risk insurance program, some insurers will be forced to significantly alter their underwriting portfolios ...
Corporate Risk Consultants Uneasy After China’s Detention of Investigators
The detention by Chinese authorities of a British corporate investigator and his American wife in the wake of a corruption probe into pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has had a chilling effect on ...
RMS Version 13.0 Released For North American Hurricanes
RMS announced the release of its North Atlantic hurricane model suite, version 13.0, today, noting that the release delivers the ability to fully quantify the risk from catastrophic hurricane-driven ...
How To Own Your Risk: AIR Worldwide Explains Touchstone
Released in January 2013, AIR Worldwide's Touchstone modeling platform was five years in the making, according to the catastrophe modeling firm's new chief operating officer. Below, Bill Churney, a ...
Is My Data Safe On The RMS Cloud?
Two months after RMS announced the launch of RMS(one)—a cloud-based platform for catastrophe models, exposure measurement tools and related data—RMS's leader took to the blogosphere to address ...