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Praedicat and Lloyd’s Lab develop risk model for casualty insurers
25th November 2020
Lloyd’s Lab and risk modelling firm Praedicat have developed a series of scenarios for the casualty insurance market in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The scenarios are designed to help insurers that have a clash risk from COVID-19 that impact general liability and directors & officers (D&O) lines within an ... Read the full article
AbsoluteClimo upgrades global risk models
18th November 2020
AbsoluteClimo has announced an enhanced version of its global risk models GOTCHA and ClimoCats, both of which are linked to climate physics and machine learning predictions. The enhancements include upgraded machine learning and AI tools, wider tail risk probability forecasts, differential and departure forecasts, and a new global pandemic climate-epidemiology prediction ... Read the full article
Human behaviour critical to pandemic & cyber modelling: CyberCube
16th November 2020
A new report by cyber analytics provider CyberCube stresses the importance of understanding and predicting human behaviour when it comes to modelling both pandemic and cyber risk. According to the report, which sets out to understand the lessons both pandemic and cyber modelers could learn from each other, the potential for ... Read the full article
More collaboration needed on cat modelling: Twelve Capital’s Jamie Rodney
13th November 2020
Dr. Jamie Rodney, Executive Director of ILS Analytics at ILS investment manager Twelve Capital, has argued that more collaboration is needed across the re/insurance industry when it comes to catastrophe modelling. Rodney’s keynote speech at the online Prospectus 2021 conference yesterday offered some insights into peak catastrophe perils and the ... Read the full article
CoreLogic & Munich Re partner on climate risk modelling
24th September 2020
Property information and analytics provider CoreLogic has partnered with Munich Re to model climate risk exposures for individual properties in Australia and New Zealand. The partnership will combine Munich Re’s climate analytical capabilities with CoreLogic’s property data coverage and connection to banking, valuation, insurance and real estate systems. Together, they will aim ... Read the full article
AIR updates Multiple Peril Crop Insurance Model for China
23rd September 2020
Catastrophe risk modelling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) has announced that it released an updated Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Model for China. The product has been updated in order to support probabilistic assessments for five newly modelled crop lines of business and a newly modelled sub-peril. This update also includes a ... Read the full article
Xceedance and Oasis LMF offer exposure analysis for US perils
17th September 2020
Re/insurance service provider Xceedance has teamed up with the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework (Oasis LMF) to offer on-demand exposure analysis and results for three key US catastrophe perils. In partnership with model providers CoreLogic, Fathom, and Applied Research Associates (ARA), the Xceedance-Oasis LMF services provide loss metrics for US earthquake, flood, ... Read the full article
Guy Carpenter launches Indonesia Flood Model
9th September 2020
Global risk management and reinsurance brokerage, Guy Carpenter, has announced the launch of its new Indonesia Flood Model (IFM). The IFM will be able to provide its users with countrywide coverage and will enable insurers to assess their flood exposure. The data used is based on a 10,000-year stochastic catalogue simulating ... Read the full article
Willis Research Network & Metabiota partner on pandemic risk
19th August 2020
The Willis Research Network (WRN), a research division of the insurance and reinsurance broking group at Willis Towers Watson (WTW), has partnered with Metabiota, a risk analytics organisation that specialises in infectious diseases modelling and builing resilience to pandemics. The partnership aims to leverage Metabiota’s epidemiological data analytics capabilities to improve ... Read the full article
AIR updates Tropical Cyclone and Earthquake Models for the Caribbean
31st July 2020
AIR Worldwide has announced the release of two updated catastrophe risk models for the Caribbean region, covering tropical cyclone and earthquake risks. The company said this will provide re/insurers with models which show a comprehensive view of risk across 29 countries and territories in the region. The AIR Tropical Cyclone Model for ... Read the full article
AIR Worldwide updates earthquake model for Australia
30th July 2020
Catastrophe risk modelling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced the release of its updated Earthquake Model for Australia. The updates were prompted by findings in the National Seismic Hazard Model from Geoscience Australia (GA), which challenged established ideas about seismic activity in the country and significantly decreased the view of seismic hazard. The ... Read the full article
KCC puts Hurricane Hanna insured losses at close to $350mn
28th July 2020
Karen Clark & Company (KCC) has estimated that insurance industry losses from Hurricane Hanna, the first hurricane of the 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season, will near $350 million. Catastrophe risk modeller KCC notes that its estimate includes privately insured wind and storm surge damage to residential, commercial, and industrial properties and ... Read the full article
CoreLogic’s Q2 organic revenue up 5% as firm sees $15mn COVID-19 impact
24th July 2020
Risk modelling firm CoreLogic has announced a 4% increase in reported revenues to $477 million in the second-quarter of 2020, and organic revenue growth of roughly 5%, up over 2% from the previous quarter. CoreLogic states that revenues were actually up by 15% once normalised for $28 million of second-quarter 2019 ... Read the full article
Nasdaq adds Global Earthquake Model to risk modelling service
2nd July 2020
The Global Earthquake Model (GEM), a non-profit, public-private partnership for earthquake risk information, has become the latest catastrophe risk model provider to offer its range of models via the Nasdaq Risk Modelling service. GEM serves the public and private sectors in a global collaborative effort to develop scientific risk assessment tools, ... Read the full article
KCC submits flood model for certification in Florida
4th March 2020
Catastrophe risk modeller Karen Clark & Company (KCC) has submitted its flood reference model to be certified by the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology. The firm claims that its flood model is the first to be submitted under the state of Florida’s flood model standards The KCC Flood Reference Model ... Read the full article
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