Technology/Science
BMS Launches Severe Weather Analytics
BMS Group has announced a new weather risk management module as part of its iVision suite of analytical tools and services. The unique analytical tools allow carriers to better understand their risk ...
Air Pollution Killed 7 Million in 2012: WHO
Air pollution killed about 7 million people in 2012, making it the world's single biggest environmental health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The toll, a doubling of ...
IPCC Japan Meeting Aims for ‘Comprehensive Assessment’ on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced that government representatives and scientists opened a five-day meeting Tuesday that aims to "finalize a report assessing the impacts ...
Karen Clark & Co.’s RiskInsight Now a Fully Probabilistic Loss Modeling Platform
Karen Clark & Co. (KCC) on Tuesday announced that RiskInsight, the open platform for catastrophe risk management, is now a fully probabilistic loss estimation tool capable of generating ...
Water Supplies Strained by Rising Energy Demand: UN
Rising demand for energy, from biofuels to shale gas, is a threat to freshwater supplies that are already under strain from climate change, the United Nations said in a report on Friday. It urged ...
Use of Predictive Modeling Increasing: Towers Watson
The use of predictive modeling continues to increase in nearly every business line, according to Towers Watson's fifth annual Predictive Modeling Benchmarking Survey. The survey examined how North ...
Developers Wanted by Progressive for Driver Behavior Smartphone App
Progressive is working with application developers to find a way to use mobile phones to measure customers' driving behaviors, the auto insurer said in an announcement yesterday. The announcement was ...
Malaysia Plane Loss Spurs Calls to Upload ‘Black Box’ Data to the ‘Cloud’
The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has prompted calls for in-flight streaming of black box data over remote areas, but industry executives say implementing changes may be complex ...