GIS News
High and Rising: Cloud to Street’s Research on Flood Exposure
The title on the cover of the August 2021 edition of Nature magazine—"High and Rising: Satellite images reveal an increasing number of people and places exposed to floods"—gives a sense of what ...
Why Swiss Re Cares About GIS
"We believe in climate change. We want to take affirmative action…We want to close the protection gap and make the world more resilient. We believe in that—and we also want to take action in ...
Seeing Through Clouds: Why Now Is the Time for Geospatial Technology in Insurance
The prospect of property/casualty insurers and reinsurers adding information from geospatial imagery to their toolkits for underwriting, product development and claims handling isn't an entirely new ...
Beyond Claims: How Carriers Use Geospatial Analytics to Underwrite Property
If there is a bright side to the tumultuous ride that was 2020, it's the surprisingly agile turn property insurers took to move away from traditional reactive approaches toward more proactive ...
A Top-Down View of Insurance Risk: Understanding the Geospatial Insurance Consortium
One of the best-kept secrets about the property/casualty insurance industry is a member-centric organization that manages the largest aerial imagery program in the world. That's right. The world's ...
Meet the Guest Editor
Mike Fitzgerald, principal analyst, Insurance for CB Insights, served as a guest editor for this edition of Carrier Management. In addition to conceiving the idea for the featured topic, geospatial ...
Eyes in the Sky and Beyond
Kicking off a Carrier Management Roundtable event on geospatial information systems in mid-October, titled "Seeing Through the Clouds: Satellites in Insurance," panel moderator Mike Fitzgerald, ...
Found in Space: How Skytek Tracks Supply Chain Risks—and More
Oil spills, port explosions, blockages in the Suez Canal and supply chain risks. These are just some of the events that global space company Skytek has analyzed over the past year for its insurance ...