Global Life Insurers Adapt Pandemic Risk Models After Unexpected Jump in Claims January 13, 2022 By Carolyn Cohn and Noor Zainab Hussain A coronavirus pandemic which lasts five years, another pandemic in a decade, and ever more transmissible variants are among the...
Insurers Seek to Find Ways to Make Pandemics Insurable May 10, 2021 By Carolyn Cohn LONDON – When much of the global economy locked down last year, insurers, facing estimated losses of more than $100...
What’s a Life Worth? America Weighs Costs, Benefits of Social Distancing May 25, 2020 By Michael Tackett We are becoming a nation of amateur actuaries, calculating the risk of restarting our lives. Can we go outside? Can...
AIR Worldwide Estimates Global COVID-19 Deaths Could Reach 644,000 During June May 22, 2020 The number of COVID-19 cases globally over the next four weeks may reach 50 million total cases, with 644,000 estimated...
AIR Worldwide Launches Free COVID-19 Catastrophe Modeling Tool April 16, 2020 AIR Worldwide has launched a free COVID-19 catastrophe modeling tool, one that predicts cases and offers death projections for the...
‘Uncertainty Is the Only Certainty’ When it Comes to Pandemic Modeling April 8, 2020 By Seth Borenstein and Carla K. Johnson A statistical model cited by the White House generated a slightly less grim figure Monday for a first wave of...
AIR Worldwide Estimates COVID-19 Global Deaths Could Rise 10K-30K by End of March March 18, 2020 AIR Worldwide, the Boston-based catastrophe risk modeling firm, projected the number of severe cases of COVID-19 could range between 200,000...
AIR Worldwide Uses Pandemic Model to Determine Countries at Highest Risk March 3, 2020 AIR Worldwide published an evaluation of potential coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in other countries, using its pandemic model to...
AIR Worldwide Expands Global Pandemic Model to Include 6 Additional Diseases July 26, 2016 Boston-based catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced it has expanded its Global Pandemic Model to include outbreaks of...