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  • No room for complacency in 2021 Atlantic hurricane season

    31 May 2021

    Forecasters have predicted another "above-normal" hurricane season, although not as bad as 2020. But as the season gets underway, insurers and catastrophe modellers have stressed there is no place for complacency. Paul Walsh reports

  • The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season: breaking unexpected records

    27 November 2020

    This year will be remembered for the having the largest number of tropical storms, but it has been a relatively lucky season without serious losses. For insurers and risk modellers, the long-term impact may be the advances in technology forced upon them by the pandemic, as Paul Walsh reports

  • Catastrophe risk modelling: platforms and models update

    09 June 2020

    InsuranceERM's round-up of developments at model vendors and platform providers AIR Worldwide, Impact Forecasting, Oasis LMF, RMS, Guy Carpenter, WTW, JBA, Nasdaq, KCC, ARA, Combus, CoreLogic, ERN and Fathom

  • Hurricane Michael to cost insurers $6bn-10bn, says AIR Worldwide

    15 October 2018

    Estimates do not include losses paid out by the National Flood Insurance Program

  • Hurricane Michael: KCC estimates almost $8bn insured loss

    12 October 2018

    Nearly half of insured loss estimated to have occurred in two Florida counties – Bay and Gulf.

  • RMS predicts up to $5bn insured losses from Florence

    25 September 2018

    Florence’s economic damage could be more than twice as severe, modellers say

  • AIR Worldwide warns of likely $4.6bn Florence insured losses

    18 September 2018

    Florence was downgraded to a tropical depression earlier this week but still brought destructive flooding

  • Insurers facing $2.5bn Florence bill

    17 September 2018

    Tropical depression Florence continues to pose a major flood threat in North Carolina

  • Cat modelling firms facing renewed pressure on loss estimates

    13 July 2018

    JLT Re urges cat modellers to strengthen authority over post-event loss forecasts

  • KCC predicts $500m insured losses from hurricane Nate

    09 October 2017

    Nate dissipated shortly after making landfall as a Cat 1 hurricane in Mississippi on 8 October