2019

Multiple wildfires in both Northern and Southern California raged in October. Although these fires collectively burned through thousands of acres in different areas, one major factor driving them all is wind.

In the (re)insurance industry, the concept of open platforms has been getting a lot of attention in recent years.

Typhoon Hagibis made landfall with 1-minute sustained wind speeds of about 145 km/h (90 mph), the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane, on the main Japanese island of Honshu. Unprecedented rainfall followed.

The casualty insurance landscape is constantly evolving as new risks assume greater prominence and new insurance products are developed to help organizations mitigate those emerging risks.

As the Astros and Yankees head into Game 4 of the ALCS, we're reminded of a World Series game out in California between local teams 30 years ago, when an M6.9 earthquake shook Candlestick Park.

September's Tropical Storm Imelda was the fifth wettest tropical cyclone on record in the U.S. and the second wettest storm to flood Texas in three years behind Hurricane Harvey in August 2017.

AIR has been using the Capacity Spectrum Method (CSM) for earthquake damage estimation for many models developed since the 1990s.

In 2017 the Tubbs Fire destroyed more than 5,600 structures, but a wildfire that occurred in the same area in 1964—the Hanley Fire—only destroyed about 100 homes and cabins.

Although reports of opioid abuse started to become widespread in 2014 and this crisis was declared a public health emergency in October 2017, the "opioid epidemic" actually dates back to the 1990s.

Palu, a city of more than 330,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, was struck by a major earthquake and tsunami one year ago on September 28, 2018.