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Carrier Management’s Top 5 Podcasts of 2013
Audio summaries of the news were available to Carrier Management readers in two forms this year. Some of our popular feature articles, such as "Reinsurers Target Regional Carriers as Alternative ...Indonesia Cave Reveals History of Ancient Tsunamis
A cave discovered near the source of Indonesia's massive earthquake-spawned tsunami contains the footprints of past gigantic waves dating up to 7,500 years ago, a rare natural record that suggests ...Trio of European Winter Storms Cause Flooding, Wind Damage
While wind damage has been significant, most of the loss from three winter storms in Europe late last week is coming from flooding, AIR Worldwide reported Saturday. A series of three winter ...American Modern Sponsors $75M Cat Bond; Willis Capital Markets & Advisory Completes Placement
Willis Capital Markets & Advisory announced the successful placement of a $75 million catastrophe bond transaction for American Modern Insurance Group last week. The transaction, which closed on ...
Top 10 Carrier Management News Reports: Stressed Employees, Tower Woes, Berkshire’s New Venture
Stressed and toxic employees captured the attention of Carrier Management's readers in 2013, with news articles about those two types of workers showing up in the top 10 news reports of the year on ...
Carriers Cut Coverage as ‘Storm Chasers’ Fuel New Roof Demands, Actuaries Report
Homeowner insurers reacting to a growing industry problem, being referred to as "neighbor-itis," has carriers reducing coverage in some regions, actuaries reported recently. Speaking at the Casualty ...
Catastrophe Bond Issuance High, But Short of Record in 2013
The catastrophe bond market experienced near-record issuance in 2013, with $7.1 billion of global issuance falling just short of the all-time record set in 2007 of $7.6 billion, Fitch Ratings ...
Verisk Climate, Weather Decision Technologies Team Up
Verisk Climate, a provider of enterprise climate risk management solutions, and Weather Decision Technologies (WDT), a high-technology leader in the weather industry, announced earlier this month ...