2015

A question has been popping up quite often recently: We have now had a nine-year stretch without a hurricane landfall in Florida. Is this (ab)normal?

The winter of 2015 (or more accurately, February 2015) has been historic for New England, setting many snowfall records and causing massive headaches for commuters in the Boston area. In addition to the heavy snowfall, February has featured extremely cold temperatures.

The winter weather of 2015 has brought many challenges to residents of the northeastern United States, including extended periods of arctic air and repeated bouts of snow that have resulted in widespread reports of property damage.

AIR Worldwide recently joined The Risk Prediction Initiative 2.0 (RPI2.0), a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to focus academic research toward the needs of the insurance and reinsurance industry.

The terms "manufactured home," "mobile home," and "modular home" are sometimes used interchangeably, but while they have some features in common, these types of home have more differences than similarities.

You can learn a lot when you break things. For the construction and insurance industries, testing buildings to destruction in a controlled and repeatable environment can be particularly revealing, and there are several facilities around the world in which this can be done.

After two and a half years of development, the first iteration of OpenQuake has just been released. The initiative is led by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM), an independent non-profit headquartered in Pavia, Italy, which works to provide cat model access to communities traditionally priced out of the market.

Every year, farmers in developing countries alter the crop exposure landscape by choosing to plant particular crops. These choices are guided, for the most part, by individual households' annual consumption needs, the availability of on-farm and off-farm employment, and an expectation of the profit that can be had at harvest time from the portion of the crops that will be sold.

Before the annual crop of hurricane season forecasts, ace AIR blogger Scott Stransky organizes a fun competition within AIR.

When I had to choose what I wanted to do when I grew up, my options were architecture and a math-based career like actuarial science.