Latest Catastrophe Headlines
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AIR Offers Supply Chain Risk Service
Apr 18 2012 // AIR Worldwide (AIR) has expanded its suite of Catastrophe Risk Engineering (CRE) products to help quantify, mitigate, and manage the risk associated with the impact of catastrophes on supply chain networks. AIR’s new...
Earthquake Hazard in Washington To Be Studied
Apr 18 2012 // The federal government is going to take another look at the potential earthquake hazard at Hanford in Washington. The seismic assessment will update the Department of Energy’s last comprehensive analysis in 1996. The...
Tornado Damage in Wichita, Kansas, Interrupts Aircraft Industry
Apr 18 2012 // Tornado damage in Kansas’ aircraft manufacturing hub could have a ripple effect on the industry, analysts have warned, even as airplane makers Boeing and Hawker Beechcraft and nearby parts maker Spirit AeroSystems...
Deadly Oklahoma Tornado Traveled about 31 Miles
Apr 18 2012 // A tornado that killed six people in northwestern Oklahoma traveled about 31 miles and had winds of 136 to 165 mph at its peak. The National Weather Service on April 16 assigned a preliminary EF-3 Enhanced Fujita scale...
Forecasters Assign EF-1 Rating to Arkansas Tornado
Apr 18 2012 // The National Weather Service in Little Rock has given a tornado that caused damage in central Arkansas a preliminary rating of EF-1. Meteorologists surveyed an area of Van Buren County on April 16 and found a 2.3-mile...
AIR Expands Cat Risk Engineering Program for Supply Chain Risk Quantification
Apr 18 2012 // AIR Worldwide announced that it has “expanded its suite of Catastrophe Risk Engineering (CRE) solutions to help quantify, mitigate, and manage the risk associated with the impact of catastrophes on supply chain...
Private U.S. P/C Insurers’ Income Fell to $19.1B in 2011: ISO, PCI
Apr 17 2012 // A new analysis shows that while the private U.S. property/casualty insurers suffered deteriorating results in 2011, they still ended the year with a strong and improved fourth-quarter. Private U.S. P/C insurers’ net...
6th Death Due to Oklahoma Tornado Is Confirmed
Apr 17 2012 // Woodward County (Oklahoma) Emergency Management Director Matt Lehenbauer says a sixth person has died as a result of injuries suffered in a deadly tornado. Lehenbauer say the man died on the night of April 15 in an...
Eastern Arizona Forest Plans For Wildfire Recovery
Apr 17 2012 // An eastern Arizona forest charred by a massive wildlife is seeking comments on a modified plan to salvage burned timber and replant trees. The project is in response to last year’s Wallow Fire that burned more than...
Tornado Outbreak: Authorities Say 5 Dead in Oklahoma, 29 Injuries
Apr 16 2012 // Tornadoes raking communities across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma, damaging a hospital, homes and other buildings as a vast severe weather front plunged eastward on April...
Now Is Time to Learn Lessons from 2011 Catastrophes: Marsh
Apr 16 2012 // Following the exceptionally severe and prolific catastrophes experienced globally in 2011, organizations now have an opportunity to learn lessons from these events and reduce the adverse impact of future incidents on their...
Risk Not Confined to Tornado Alley
Apr 16 2012 // Tornado Alley is typically considered to encompass mainly the Great Plains states and surrounding areas. However an analysis by analytics firm CoreLogic shows that tornado risk actually extends across most of the eastern...
160-Year Old Hanover Retaking Its Place as P/C Industry Leader
Apr 16 2012 // Eight out of 160 years of history may not seem like a big deal but for Hanover Insurance Group, founded in 1852, the last eight years have seen a series of big deals. Eight years ago in 2004, the $2.4 billion heavily...
Tsunami Anniversary a Reminder of Supply Chain Insurance
Apr 16 2012 // The devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March last year caused massive supply chain disruptions, exposing the complexity and vulnerability of global corporations. The disaster caused an estimated $35 to...
April in Texas: Tornadoes, High Winds and Hail
Apr 16 2012 // Damages Estimates Climb A line of thunderstorms and isolated super cells that moved into the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area in the early afternoon on April 3, 2012, produced numerous tornadoes and large hail...
CEA and Red Cross Combine Forces to Raise Awareness
Apr 16 2012 // In what those involved say may bring about many more such pairings, the California Earthquake Authority and the American Red Cross have joined forces to try to boost preparedness and recovery when California’s next...
Irene Retired from Tropical Storm Name List
Apr 15 2012 // Irene is being retired from the list of storm names because the 2011 hurricane killed 49 people and caused more than $15 billion in damage. A report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the name...
Meteorologist: Tornado Near Stockton, Calif. Not Unusual
Apr 13 2012 // The National Weather Service says the tornado that struck five miles outside of Stockton, Calif. on Wednesday was not unusual for this time of year. The twister on farmland near Interstate 5 left a path of damage about a...
Warm Weather, Dry Conditions Could Mean More Wildfires in Northeast
Apr 12 2012 // Northeastern states are not known for frequent wildfires and brushfires. But that could be changing this spring as the region faces record-high temperatures and unusually dry conditions. “With more than 15,000...
Virginia Wildfires Burn More Than 7,000 Acres
Apr 12 2012 // Parts of Interstate 64 and three other roads remain closed because of wildfires that have burned more than 7,000 acres in Virginia. The National Forest Service says five large fires are burning in Alleghany, Craig, Page...
