Bill Churney News
Insurers Can Take on Coverage Gaps as Disaster Costs and Frequency Rise
Although clear challenges can come with the increasing cost and frequency of global natural disasters, there could also be untapped opportunity for insurers to tackle coverage gaps, according to ...
Embracing the Future of Catastrophe Modeling
This year, 2017, marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of catastrophe modeling. Back in 1987, after a few quiet decades of natural catastrophes in the United States, the idea of ...
Carriers Losing Sight of Traditional Cat Risk Exposures: AIR Worldwide CEO
Novel risks of the digital age are not the only ones that property/casualty insurance industry executives should be worried about as they seek to manage insurance and reinsurance portfolios, the ...
Verisk’s AIR Worldwide Names Churney to Succeed Lee as President
Data firm Verisk Analytics has appointed Bill Churney as president of its AIR Worldwide risk modeling business. Churney had been serving as AIR's chief operating officer. Churney succeeds Ming Lee, ...
Can We Fix Earthquake Insurance in California?
Twenty years ago, on Jan. 17, 1994, a previously unknown fault ruptured nine miles beneath Northridge in the San Fernando Valley. With a magnitude of 6.7 and an epicenter just 20 miles northwest of ...
How To Own Your Risk: AIR Worldwide Explains Touchstone
Released in January 2013, AIR Worldwide's Touchstone modeling platform was five years in the making, according to the catastrophe modeling firm's new chief operating officer. Below, Bill Churney, a ...