RMS News
RMS: Global Ebola Pandemic Highly Unlikely
To those who worry about the risk of a global Ebola pandemic, catastrophe modeler RMS is essentially saying, "relax." In a new blog entry on the company's web site, RMS acknowledged that the World ...
Insured Losses From Hurricane Arthur Will Not Exceed $250M: RMS
Insured losses from Hurricane Arthur—the first hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. since 2012's Hurricane Sandy—will not exceed $250 million from wind and coastal flooding, according to ...
Governments Will Gain Free Access to RMS Cat Modeling Technology
RMS said it will give governments free access to its new catastrophe modeling software program through a new initiative with The World Bank and United Nations. A particular goal here is to increase ...
RMS Opens Fourth Asia-Pacific Office in Singapore
Catastrophe risk management firm RMS announced last week that it is expanding its Asia Pacific presence with a new Singapore office. The office, led by Paul Burgess, senior director of client ...
Praedicat: Mining Data From Published Science to Spot the Next Casualty Cat
Emerging liability risks aren't likely to look like asbestos or silica in coming years, according to an expert who has been following the development of workplace torts for decades. Instead, the next ...
P/C Carriers Could Counter Hailstorms With More Reinsurance: RMS
Now that hailstorms are no longer "attritional perils" and are much more widespread than they used to be, property/casualty insurers could benefit from adding reinsurance for these threats, an RMS ...
RMS: Reinsurers Can Adapt to ILS Invasion Using NIKE As Inspiration
With hedge and pension funds continuing to dive into the reinsurance market through insurance-linked securities, or ILS products, Peter Nakada urges the industry to get used to it and adapt. Nakada, ...
RMS CEO Shah Confronts Delays With Cat Modeling Platform Rollout
RMS launched its Exceedance 2014 conference in Washington, D.C. on April 14 with a hard sell of RMS(one), a cloud-based catastrophe risk management system the California company hopes will modernize ...