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News
Total reinsurance capital falls 5% year on year
Findings revealed in the Willis Re reinsurance market report
Scor's premiums rise by 9.6% in April renewals
Follows the positive trend seen at the January renewals
Dragi-Eberhard windstorm loss estimate hits €740m
The storm caused heavy damage across Europe
Notre-Dame fire: governments urged to engage more closely with insurers
Jad Ariss, secretary general of the Geneva Association, made the comments
Royal HaskoningDHV acquires flood modeller Ambiental
Engineering and project management firm plans to expand flood-risk management services
European insurers' underwriting risk increased in Q4 2018
Secondary perils to drive evermore nat cat losses
Impact Forecasting improves automation in v13 of cat model platform
TSR predicts slightly below-norm Atlantic hurricane activity
CSU forecasts below average hurricane season
Lloyd's syndicates go green in latest annual reports
Climate change now top risk for insurers
Analysis
A shake-up of Australian earthquake modelling
David Walker finds that much has changed in the risk models used to assess the country's seismic hazard - and in the mentality of the modellers themselves
Australia raises its game on wildfire loss models
Ten years ago, Australia suffered one of its worst outbreaks of bushfires that burned 300,000 hectares and took 173 lives. David Walker reports on how wildfire modelling has developed to cope with this increasing threat
Risk insights from outer space
Satellite and drone technology has transformed the ability of re/insurers to assess risks and losses from natural catastrophes, as Dave Fox explains
Climate risk management: the heat is on
Managing financial risks from climate change is becoming an important issue for insurers. Ronan McCaughey speaks to firms about the tools they use to gauge climate risk - and how they plan to deal with this major global challenge
US flood insurance: bridging the political chasm
Hurricanes Michael and Florence have again drawn attention to the issue of underinsurance of flood risk in the US. The industry says regulators are stymieing the market, and reforms are stuck in a political logjam. InsuranceERM's US editor Sarfraz Thind reports
InsuranceERM's Technology Guide 2018-19 is now live
Christopher Cundy introduces this year's guide to risk, capital and asset management software