RMS News
RMS Targets South Korea With Wide-Ranging Cat Flood Risk Catalog
RMS is rolling out a wide-ranging series of flood risk models for South Korea, the catastrophe modeling firm has disclosed. Known formally as the South Korea Probabilistic Flood Maps and Scenario ...
Climate Change Modeling on Cusp of Paradigm Shift
In the face of growing interest in climate change impacts, several big catastrophe modelers said they've heard from more clients interested in receiving climate-related data and they believe the ...
RMS Debuts Global Tsunami Scenario Catalog
RMS released a global tsunami scenario catalog to help insurers and reinsurers assess risks in high exposure regions they cover. The catastrophe modeling firm touted the catalog as the first of its ...
Cat Modelers Look to Clarify Cost of Cyber Risk
Even as the Sony Corp. cyber attack laid bare the kinds of vulnerabilities that typically drive companies to buy insurance policies, the lack of a risk model for insurers means such protection is not ...
RMS Reflects on the 2014 Catastrophe Risk Landscape
For the insurance industry, 2014 was not a year of big losses. However, look more closely and you will see a string of near misses and important reminders of the forces that can wreak destruction and ...
Lessons of a Risk Modeler: RMS CEO Hemant Shah
Not many CEOs are willing to talk publicly about their biggest misfires and what they learn from them. Hemant Shah did not hesitate when confronted with the question. The co-founder and CEO of ...
Ebola ‘Tipping Point’ Could Come By Late January: RMS
The Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa has the potential to be the most deadly infectious disease event since the 1918 flu pandemic, according to a new report by catastrophic risk modeling ...
Bill Keogh Replacing Ruggieri as Advisen CEO
Former EQECAT President William (Bill) Keogh has been elected the new chief executive officer of data and analytics company Advisen Ltd. Keogh has dedicated much of his career to applied insurance ...