Latest Earthquake Headlines
All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Disaster Planning
Dec 1 2003 // While this article was being written, Southern California was still on fire. Thousands of homes were burned to the ground along with hundreds of thousands of acres of forests. This is one of the key times that the...
Business Disaster Planning
Nov 17 2003 // While this article was being written, Southern California was still on fire. Thousands of homes were burned to the ground along with hundreds of thousands of acres of forests. This is one of the key times that the...
Industry Adopting Enhanced RMS Risk Models for U.S. Catastrophe Risk
Sep 26 2003 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, announced that its new third generation earthquake and hurricane models for the United States are being adopted...
RMS Provides Risk Analysis for $100 Million Taiwan Earthquake Pool
Aug 28 2003 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions, a leading provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, announced that it has provided the risk analysis for a securitization of insurance risk by...
RMS Releases First High Res Earthquake Model For Ins. Risk in Israel
Jul 15 2003 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS) nnounced the release of the RMS Israel Earthquake model. This model is the first to offer both high resolution and aggregate analysis capabilities for insurance and reinsurance risk...
AIR Expands San Francisco Office for Research in Earthquake Engineering
Jun 18 2003 // AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR) announced the relocation and expansion of its San Francisco office to accommodate the increasing number of research initiatives being undertaken there. The San Francisco team, led by Dr....
RMS Earthquake Engineer Asked by EERI to Lead Algerian Quake Damage Survey Team
May 30 2003 // California-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, announced that the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) has asked Dr. Fouad...
Death Toll Rises in Turkish Earthquake
May 2 2003 // More than 100 people have reportedly died and many more are missing following the earthquake that struck a mountainous region of Eastern Turkey early Thursday morning. Rescue efforts were centered on a local school in the...
Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Calif. Earthquake Law
Mar 5 2003 // A California law allowing homeowners to renew insurance claims from the 1994 Northridge earthquake was upheld March 3 by a federal appeals court, according to the Associated Press. The law was challenged by insurers in an...
Quackenbush Breaks the Silence
Feb 25 2003 // Insurance Journal senior staff writer Dave Thomas, along with publisher Mark Wells, recently caught up with former California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush. Quackenbush, who has been working in Hawaii as a...
Quackenbush Breaks the Silence
Feb 24 2003 // Insurance Journal senior staff writer Dave Thomas, along with publisher Mark Wells, recently caught up with former California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush. Quackenbush, who has been working in Hawaii as a...
RMS Launches 3rd Generation Earthquake Models For Western U.S.
Feb 14 2003 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS) announced the launch of new earthquake models for the western U.S. and western Canada. The models use the latest data on seismic risk from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 2002 National...
Calif. Commissioner Appeals Northridge Earthquake Settlement Decision
Jan 14 2003 // Citing his responsibility to seek every legal remedy on behalf of California consumers and Northridge earthquake victims, California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi filed to appeal court decisions upholding...
California Earthquake Authority Shuns Offshore Entities
Dec 26 2002 // The California Earthquake Authority decided it will no longer conduct business dealings with U.S. companies that relocate in name only to offshore tax havens. According to the Sacramento Bee, state Treasurer Phil Angelides...
21st Century Files Suit Relating to Fraudulent Claims
Dec 18 2002 // In response to a flood of insurance fraud relating to homeowners and earthquake insurance, 21st Century Insurance has filed a civil complaint against California-based Unlimited Adjusting Company and its principal Jung Ho...
A.M. Best Assigns A- (Excellent) Rating to CEA
Dec 9 2002 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned an initial Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) to the California Earthquake Authority. The rating reflects the unique role the CEA serves in ensuring that insurance coverage for losses...
Aon Unveils Two New Workers Comp Models for Earthquakes and Terrorism + James Bond
Nov 18 2002 // Aon Corp.’s subsidiary, Aon Re Inc., has unveiled two timely new models for workers’ compensation catastrophes. One covers all significant U.S. earthquake regions, and the second analyzes terrorism exposures...
AIR Earthquake Engineer To Lead Reconnaissance Team to Italy
Nov 13 2002 // Boston-based AIR Worldwide announced that the company’s manager of engineering analysis, Dr. Paolo Bazzurro, has been selected to lead a group of engineers organized by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute...
Earthquakes in Ohio’ Nationwide Says It’s Possible
Nov 5 2002 // Ohio’s Nationwide Insurance has issued a bulletin with the headline “Quake Rumblings Could Surprise Midwesterners,” which, as the company points out, is indeed surprising. Midwesterners may fear...
Who You Going to Call When There’s An Earthquake’
Oct 28 2002 // Insurance Journal senior writer Dave Thomas recently interviewed Dan Dyce, Disaster Response Manager for the California Earthquake Authority (CEA). In this capacity, Dyce, who has been in the industry 29 years, coordinates...
