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News
Hurricane Sally insured losses could hit $3bn
Latest estimates from AIR Worldwide and Karen Clark & Company
AM Best warns of severe NFIP losses from Sally
The rating agency warned the US Federal flood insurance backstop and private insurers with large flood exposures of large losses
Insurers "distressingly absent" in push for US climate legislation
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse says industry understands risks from climate change, but won't drive Congress
US wildfires to cost insurers up to $8bn, Moody's estimates
Western state blazes have claimed 34 lives and destroyed almost 10,000 homes
Tropical storm Sally pours down on US Gulf Coast
Sally weakened from a hurricane to a tropical depression shortly after making landfall
InsuranceERM's Technology Guide 2020-21 is launched and ready to use
The directory covers over 100 products used by insurers for risk, capital and asset management
Swiss Re ramps up its internal price on carbon
Generali, Allianz and Aviva also ask EU to cut emissions by 55%
Join InsuranceERM's Americas virtual conference for expert insight
The virtual event is free for insurers and will be held on 22-23 of September
Beirut explosion data not granular enough, says Hannover Re
German reinsurer estimates "mid-double digit million euro range" from the event
Sally set to hit US Gulf Coast as cat 2 hurricane
Hurricane warnings are in place from parts of Louisiana to the Mississippi/Alabama border
Analysis
The cloud is a silver lining amid Covid-19
Covid-19 has put to bed any doubts about the use of cloud technology for risk and capital management. The pandemic will also drive more sophisticated risk modelling, as Ronan McCaughey discusses in his review of key trends in the risk software markets
Pandemic protection: what a public/private solution might look like
Swiss Re's Ivo Menzinger has overseen many innovative public/private partnerships to insure risks at a regional and national level. Now he is focusing on pandemic protection programmes, he explains to David Walker
Australia's life insurers in the emergency room
David Walker reports on the suitability, reputational and distribution crises that are destroying the profitability of the country's life sector
The heat is on for climate risk modelling
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It is time for catastrophe risk model developers to go beyond a piecemeal approach to addressing climate change, argues Jayanta Guin
The insurance industry's climate change leaders
Christopher Cundy introduces InsuranceERM's list of the people leading and shaping the insurance sector's response to climate change
Catastrophe risk modelling: platforms and models update
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