July 2019

Flood control methods are used throughout the world to prevent the detrimental effects of rising water levels. In the UK permanent man-made flood defenses are dominated by four types.

Climate change has long been a challenging issue—with potential climatological, ecological, and economics responses, among others. But insurance needs to have a response, too.

In March of this year the global operations of Norsk Hydro, a renewable energy company and one of the world's biggest aluminum producers, were disrupted after an apparent systemic infection from the ransomware LockerGoga.

Central banks are actively looking to take the lead in the propagation of knowledge, risk metrics, and recommendations on climate risk variability impacts on the wider financial industry.

Most coastal flooding in the UK is caused by extra-tropical cyclones (ETCs). The updated ETC model now incorporates storm surge and demonstrates more accurate event losses and a more certain view of risk.

Southern California was just rocked by two major earthquakes only 34 hours and ~7 miles (11 km) apart in the region between the Searles Valley and Ridgecrest.

Learn how AIR’s Model Builder™ simplifies the catastrophe model development process and makes it easy to implement your own view of risk.

For many years misuse of assignment of benefits (AOB) in the Florida insurance marketplace has been a source of fraud and unnecessary lawsuits.