Floods News

From Pin Maps to the World Wide Web

By Stu Mathewson
Since the 1800s, the insurance industry has used technology to track and control catastrophic exposures. Insurers first used mapping after...

RSA Profits Down on Flood Losses

The U.K.’s Royal & Sun Alliance confirmed previous estimates that claims from the floods which struck Britain in October and...

SWISS RE CAT ESTIMATES FOR 2000

Swiss Re published the following preliminary estimates of the losses caused by natural and man-made catastrophes in the year 2000:...

RSA Doubles Storm Loss Estimates

Britain’s Royal & Sun Alliance announced that loss estimates for the fourth quarter of 2000 are between £180 million ($267.5...