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Worsening High-Tide Floods Could Make City Sections Unusable: Study
Flooding during high tides, which used to be rare, is now common in some places and could worsen to the point that sections of coastal cities may flood so often they would become unusable in the near ...
Cyclone Hudhud Making Damaging Mark in India
Cyclone Hudhud caused some serious damage in India after making landfall early Oct. 12, AIR Worldwide said. The Boston-based catastrophe modeling firm said the storm hit near Visakhapatnam with wind ...
Workers Compensation Could Take Small Hit From Ebola Outbreak: I.I.I.
With the first Ebola cases appearing in the U.S and its spread continuing in West Africa, workers compensation insurance could take at least a small hit due to health-care employee exposure, the ...
Get Your Insurance, IKEA-style
A new competitor is jumping directly into the insurance market – IKEA Group, the Swedish maker of stylish and affordable furniture. The Wall Street Journal reported that the company began selling ...
Atlantic Hurricane Season Still Has Time To Rally
The Atlantic hurricane season isn't dead yet. As weather-watchers focus on Typhoon Vongfong in the Pacific and Cyclone Hudhud in the Bay of Bengal, a subtropical depression has formed south of ...
P/C Insurers Seize Cyber Coverage Market Opportunities
Insurers flush with capital are rushing to grab part of an expanding cyber coverage market that's been spurred on by high-profile hackings at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Home Depot Inc. Sales are ...
Ebola Fears Lead To Tighter Port Ship Entry Procedures
Brazil, Argentina and the United States have tightened port entry procedures for ships that have sailed from West Africa in a bid to control the potential spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Ebola has ...
AIG Launches $1B Rail Catastrophe Policy
American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, introduced a policy to help railroads handle losses from catastrophic accidents as more crude oil is shipped ...