2019

The tragic fire this week at Notre Dame in Paris is a reminder that, while subject to the same natural catastrophe perils as modern structures nearby, historic buildings are at additional risk when undergoing renovation.

This is not an overly scientific explanation of a long-lost "Seinfeld" joke; it’s a question we heard quite frequently when we were meeting with clients in New Zealand.

One of the challenges of breaking into a new area or writing new risks in existing areas is that insufficient exposure data is available.

Forty-five years ago, the United States' worst tornado outbreak of the 20th century occurred. Although they can occur at any time of the year, tornadoes are most common between April and June.

In June 2018 a stadium full of partisan soccer fans jumping with excitement as their team scored a surprise World Cup victory over Germany in Mexico City registered as an earthquake. Find out why.

I recently read Nassim Taleb’s book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable). It had me looking back at how much I hated the “bag of marbles” way of teaching probability. In this post I will show two simple examples to give you a fresh perspective on how we understand probability.

One of a community's best defenses against natural perils is making sure that strong building codes are adopted and well-enforced.

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.

In late January 2019 the polar vortex moved southward over parts of the Midwest and generated two weeks of abnormally sub-freezing temperatures

Heart disease and cancer are the first and second leading causes of death today in the United States (and most of developed countries), thanks to continuous improvements in infectious disease mortality since late 1930s.