Data & Research
Many Railroads Make Little Progress Adopting Safety Technology
Many commuter and freight railroads have made little progress installing safety technology designed to prevent deadly collisions and derailments despite a mandate from Congress, according to a ...
Move-in Ready Home Modules Offer Faster Method of Post-Disaster Rebuilding: Texas A&M
Texas legislators are investigating the benefits of RAPIDO, a pilot program developed with recommendations from Texas A&M University's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC) that ...
Louisiana’s Affected Storm Areas Have Low Flood Insurance Penetration: RMS
It's bad enough that the heavy rainfall and massive flooding that began in Louisiana on Aug. 12 has damaged more than 50,000 homes. There's also this: A relatively small amount of businesses and ...
PCS Unveils Historical Catastrophe Database for Turkey
Property Claim Services has gone live with a new historical catastrophe database for Turkey, an advance that the data analytics provider said will be helpful for both insurers and reinsurers. "The ...
Reinsurers Successfully Protect Themselves With Strong Enterprise Risk Management: S&P
The reinsurance sector's focus on strong enterprise risk management (ERM) frameworks is helping them weather the many headwinds hitting both the asset and liability sides of their balance sheets, ...
Are Wearable Clouds the Next Innovation in Data Storage?
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are exploring the concept of a wearable personal cloud — a fully functioning, yet compact and lightweight cloud computing system embedded into ...
How a Solar Storm Almost Sparked a Nuclear War
A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force's budding efforts to monitor the ...
Natural Catastrophes Created $31B in Global Insured Losses Through H1: Swiss Re’s Sigma
Global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters during the first half of 2016 reached US$31 billion, or 44 percent of total economic losses of US$71 billion, according to a ...