April 8, 2024
Verisk, the Jersey City, New Jersey-based data analytics and technology provider, has launched a suite of next generation catastrophe models. Verisk’s suite of 100+ Next Generation Models (NGM) is designed to help insurers and reinsurers evaluate risk across the globe, …
October 13, 2023
Xceedance, a global provider of strategic operations support, technology, and data services to insurance organizations, announced the launch of burst capacity catastrophe modeling resources to support reinsurers during peak renewal times. In the lead up to a renewal, reinsurers see …
September 7, 2023
Executive summary: The key to getting useful model results is working with models that fit specific underwriting needs and making sure the models are regularly updated while employing qualitative analysis (in addition to the models’ quantitative analysis), say experts from …
March 13, 2023
Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm, updated its Impact Forecasting Europe Windstorm and Severe Convective Storm (SCS) catastrophe models to incorporate emissions scenarios that inform current and future projections of climate and storm activity across the continent. Windstorm …
January 20, 2022
Insurtech Reask, an Australian science and technology company that focuses on natural hazard modeling, announced it has closed its seed funding round, led by Tencent, the global technology giant headquartered in China. The funding will support the next stage of …
September 30, 2021
Willis Re has launched a new flood model for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which enables re/insurers to quantify their flood risk using a catastrophe model. Currently the model covers Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and the …
September 24, 2021
JBA Risk Management Ltd. announced its collaboration with Reinsurance Solutions Intermediary Services (RSIS), an African-based reinsurance broker that will use the JBA global flood modeling capability to provide flood risk analytics and catastrophe modeling services for its insurance clients across …
July 30, 2020
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced the release of its updated Tropical Cyclone and Earthquake Models for the Caribbean. These models will provide insurers and reinsurers with a comprehensive view of risk across 29 countries and territories in …
May 5, 2020
RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based risk modeling and analytics firm, announced the release of new European Severe Convective Storm (EU SCS) High Definition Models. The models represent 50,000 years of simulation of hail and straight-line wind and tornado risk and include …
April 8, 2020
Global warming will lead to growing intensity and frequency of severe weather events, rising losses, as well as greater uncertainty in the assessment of these events by the insurance industry, which could make some weather risks uninsurable, according to a …