Serge Gagarin

A lot has changed since we last wrote about the opioid epidemic in summer of 2018

While many effects of climate change are complex or difficult to measure, one important change is clear.

It should come as no surprise that companies increasingly look to automate parts of their HR processes.

In this post we discuss how, with an initial focus on the product side, the team at Arium analyzed systemic factors that could affect the marijuana industry to quantify marijuana-related liability losses.

The size of the marijuana market is growing as about 20% of the U.S. now lives in a marijuana-regulated state. What does this mean for liability insurance?

The year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and this critical program currently finds itself in dire straits.

Over the past few years, there has been increased attention focused on football-related concussions and other head injuries, both at professional and non-professional levels.

Southeastern North Carolina is home to two major sources of pollution—hog waste lagoons and coal ash pits—that contaminated floodwaters following Hurricane Florence.

Read about the losses and liabilities facing particular drug companies in the shadow of the opioid crisis.

Listen to a podcast discussing how scenario-based modeling can be used to proactively account for the risks related to systematic and sudden trigger casualty occurrences.

The insurance impact of hurricanes Harvey and Irma—and similar events—could extend beyond property and result in significant casualty losses; this presents an ongoing challenge to the insurance industry.

While it may sound strange, in many ways the people in Rockport, Texas, whose homes were destroyed by the strong winds that accompanied Hurricane Harvey, are the lucky ones. It is the people who suffered from Harvey's other major peril—the devastating flooding—that are in far worse shape.

Most recently, the western coast of the U.S. has been pummeled by a series of powerful storms that brought significant amounts of precipitation in the form of heavy snow and pounding rain to areas in California and Nevada.

Swiss Re recently released preliminary estimates for losses from disasters for 2016.

Why not put AIR's hazard and event data to work for you?

On October 28, 2016, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a proposed update to certain building standards to better protect communities and taxpayer-funded investments from flooding.

Three weeks ago, AIR released version 4.0 of Touchstone®. To meet the needs of ever more diverse user groups this release focused on depth, enhancing many of the functional areas to improve the overall user experience and streamline workflows for existing capabilities within the robust platform. 

Right now in the United States, less than 25% of homes in FEMA Flood Zones A or V have flood insurance, and the vast majority of the policies that do exist are written by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is currently USD 23 billion in debt.

As organizations increasingly look to the cloud to handle everything from collaboration to storage to their most critical and computationally intensive tasks, there are a number of factors to consider when selecting a cloud provider.