Washington education officials are using a $1.1 million federal grant to help schools prepare for natural disasters. The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is working with 35 school districts across the state to develop a statewide emergency plan. …
Are you an insurance news hound? Test your insurance news IQ and find out. The following questions and answers (at bottom of the page– don’t cheat!) were developed based on news stories published by InsuranceJournal.com in 2010. Good luck! 1. …
Natural and man-made catastrophes topped the list of the most significant events in 2010, with three major earthquakes, a near record number of hurricanes, some serious typhoons and windstorms, a volcanic eruption and a calamitous oil spill that blighted the …
A bulletin from Aon’s London office notes that the “Big Freeze in the UK shows no signs of abating.” It therefore is advising UK “businesses affected by the snow to constantly evaluate whether their business continuity plans, if they have …
Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most volatile volcano, unleashed another cloud of searing gas as rescuers pulled more bodies from a village smothered a week ago by eruptions. The death toll from a series of blasts passed 240 on Sunday. Saturday’s blast …
In its presentation at the 17th General Insurance Seminar at the Gold Coast in Australia, Aon Benfield highlighted the critical role of actuaries in managing emerging risks for the re/insurance industry. “The profession’s role will evolve to deliver more robust …
Just days before President Barack Obama’s long-awaited visit to Indonesia, some international flights were canceled over concerns about a volcano spewing ash hundreds of miles away. Malaysia was preparing to airlift hundreds of citizens out of the country. The notoriously …
Qantas Airways suspended flights of its Airbus A380 fleet on Thursday after engine failure triggered an emergency landing in Singapore, one of the most serious incidents for the world’s largest passenger plane in three years of commercial flight. The Airbus …
The earthquake and the subsequent tsunami, which struck the Mentawai Islands off of the Indonesian island of Sumatra has left at least 272 dead, with over 400 people still reported missing. Indonesian authorities are also trying to deal with the …
The United Nations should impose a moratorium on “geo-engineering” projects such as artificial volcanoes and vast cloud-seeding schemes to fight climate change, green groups say, fearing they could harm nature and mankind. The risks were too great because the impacts …
