KCC: Frequent SCS Activity Emphasizes Need for Latest Modeling Tech

Despite only one landfalling hurricane, 2023 wasn't a good year for property/casualty insurers, and severe convective storms (SCS) are being blamed for the bad results, according to Karen Clark & ...

Verisk Launches Next Generation Catastrophe Models

Verisk, the Jersey City, N.J.-based data analytics and technology provider, has launched a suite of next generation catastrophe models. Verisk's suite of 100+ Next Generation Models (NGM) is designed ...

The Care and Feeding of Property-Catastrophe Models

A wise statistician once said: "All models are wrong, but some are useful." The key to getting useful (accurate) model results is working with models that fit specific ...

Barring Change, Allstate May Exit California Property Market Completely

The topic of a recent California insurance department workshop was the potential use of catastrophe modeling in ratemaking, but carrier representatives and consumers took ...

Report From California Insurers Calls for More Freedom to Use Wildfire Catastrophe Models

Associations representing insurers operating in California on Tuesday released an analysis from Milliman showing wildfire catastrophe models would improve homeowners' ...

How One Computer Forecast Model Botched Hurricane Ian

As Hurricane Ian bore down on Florida, normally reliable computer forecast models couldn't agree on where the killer storm would land. But government meteorologists are ...

30 Years Ago Andrew Upended Florida, But Current Legal Storm May Be Worse

Thirty years ago Hurricane Andrew, the strongest storm to make U.S. landfall in more than two decades, gouged its way across south Florida, destroying more than 25,000 homes, by some estimates, and ...

An Interview With Karen Clark 30 Years After Hurricane Andrew Affirmed Her Models

June 1 marked the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season — one that is expected to be above average in terms of named storms and hurricanes. Carrier Management's sister publication, Insurance ...