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Corporate Britain Warns: Slow Brexit Negotiations Place Thousands of UK Jobs at Risk
Prime Minister Theresa May faces a new onslaught over her Brexit plans from corporate Britain, after the U.K.'s five main business lobbies urged her to make progress in the negotiations or risk ...
How Do You Count Deaths From a Hurricane?
How many people died in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria? It's a question that has been debated since the powerful storm slammed into the island and devastated the U.S. territory last year. It's also ...
Fracking Doesn’t Impact Groundwater: Studies
New research suggests drinking water supplies in Pennsylvania have shown resilience in the face of a drilling boom that has turned swaths of countryside into a major production zone for natural gas. ...
Disciplined Exposure Management Helps Reinsurers Absorb 2017 Catastrophes: Fitch
The global reinsurance industry demonstrated resiliency following the record level of catastrophe losses in 2017, as very strong capitalization and effective risk management enabled the sector to ...
PartnerRe Rating Outlook Now Positive: A.M. Best
A.M. Best has revised the outlooks on the financial strength rating for most of the operating subsidiaries of PartnerRe Ltd to positive from stable, attributing the outlook change on the A ...
Lessons From the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Open Models, Real-Time Tracking Are Valuable Tools
Open models and tools to track hurricanes in real time can help boost modeling accuracy and aid the claims process after storms, according to a new Karen Clark & Co. analysis of the 2017 Atlantic ...
Global Warming Set To Surpass Paris Agreement Cap of 1.5°C by 2040: UN
Global warming is on course to exceed the most stringent goal set in the Paris agreement by around 2040, threatening economic growth, according to a draft report that is the U.N.'s starkest warning ...
Hands Still Tied at Lemonade, CEO Says
When two InsurTech watchers tallied up underwriting results for Lemonade recently to conclude that the company's annual "Giveback" to policyholders' selected charities might shrink in coming years, ...