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  • Insurers must brace for US$171 billion in annual cat losses, study finds
  • Prevention or acceptance of disaster?
  • What Nepal's floods reveal about “cascading hazards”

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insurancebusinessmag.com /1 week ago

Insurers must brace for US$171 billion in annual cat losses, study finds

Six straight years above US$100 billion and no US hurricane - that is the new baseline for global catastrophe losses

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ekathimerini.com /1 week ago

Prevention or acceptance of disaster?

We live in a world where every day there is at least one thing to lose sleep over: “Biblical” natural disasters, fires or floods, femicides, and threats to public health (like the...

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scientificamerican.com /1 week ago

What Nepal's floods reveal about “cascading hazards”

The Nepal disaster appears to be a “cascading event,” where one hazard seems to have triggered another, experts say

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insurancebusinessmag.com /1 month ago

Global data centre boom colliding with escalating natural hazards, supply chain risks: FM

Catastrophe and supply chain risk pile pressure on developers and insurers

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businessgreen.com /1 week ago

Report: World should now expect $450bn a year in losses from natural disasters

Increase in severity of storms, floods, wildfires and more - as well as rising property values and insurance costs - spurs surge in modelled losses from natural catastrophes in a g...

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insurancebusinessmag.com /1 month ago

Global data center boom colliding with escalating natural hazards, supply chain risks: FM

Catastrophes, cooling failures and supply chains risk put pressure on developers and insurers

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insurancebusinessmag.com /1 week ago

Insurers must brace for $171 billion in annual cat losses, study finds

Six straight years above $100 billion and no US hurricane - that is the new baseline for global catastrophe losses

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com /1 week ago

Nepal floods: What caused the catastrophe, and what could happen next

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insurancejournal.com /1 week ago

Global Insured Catastrophe Losses Expected to Average $171 Billion Annually: Verisk

The insurance industry should be prepared to withstand $171 billion in insured catastrophe losses, on average in a given year, up $19 billion from a year ago, according to Verisk....

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insurancebusinessmag.com /1 month ago

Super El Niño to redraw global catastrophe exposure

Atlantic hurricane threat eases as Pacific, flood and wildfire exposures rise

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insurancejournal.com /2 weeks ago

World Inches Toward Catastrophic Climate Events: ‘Bigger Shocks Are On the Way’

In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million...

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cbsnews.com /1 month ago

The biggest weather risk for homeowners? It's no longer hurricanes.

Severe "convective" storms account for roughly a third of global natural disaster economic losses, a new study finds.

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nytimes.com /5 days ago

Here are some other extraordinary rescues from natural disasters.

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insurancebusinessmag.com /1 month ago

France's wildfires are now making their own weather - and that's a problem for catastrophe models

Fire-generated thunderstorms, rare in Europe, are complicating containment in Gironde and raising questions about whether current wildfire models can keep up

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youthkiawaaz.com /1 week ago

A tragedy-climate change

Sometimes I wonder how many disasters we need to witness before we stop calling them “natural.”A few days ago, news of the glacier collapse and flooding in Nepal once again brought...

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handelsblatt.com /4 weeks ago

Versicherung: Rechenzentren boomen, sind aber verstärkt von Naturkatastrophen bedroht

Der Bau von Rechenzentren boomt weltweit. Doch häufig entsteht KI-Infrastruktur in Regionen, die hohen Naturkatastrophenrisiken ausgesetzt sind.

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insurancejournal.com /1 month ago

Sicily’s Cyclone Harry Tests Italian Mandatory Insurance Plan

A cyclone that wreaked more than €1 billion ($1.14 billion) in damage along Sicily’s coast has also exposed a flaw in Italy’s push to expand mandatory insurance against natural dis...

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insurancebusinessmag.com /1 month ago

Catastrophe models have become the starting point, not the answer

Insurers are increasingly combining catastrophe models with proprietary research and underwriting judgement to build their own view of risk

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insurancejournal.com /3 weeks ago

Viewpoint: Storm Resilience Must Account for the Assets That Do Not Stay Put

Hurricanes, wildfires and other major weather events often dominate attention, but severe convective storms remain one of the most frequent and costly weather threats facing busine...

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ncronline.org /1 week ago

Devastating floods in Nepal pile on 'unusual' summer of environmental disasters

The flash flooding in Nepal is the latest environmental catastrophe to strike this summer. Extreme flooding, major earthquakes, wildfires and heat waves have dotted the global map,...

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khon2.com /3 weeks ago

The 11 worst disasters to ever hit HawaiК»i

Since the beginning of European and US record keeping, various natural and man-made disasters including volcanic eruptions, disease outbreaks, aerial bombings, tsunamis, hurricanes...

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scientificamerican.com /1 week ago

Why glacial collapse likely caused the Nepal disaster—and why climate change will make these events more likely

The disaster has claimed hundreds of lives, and at least 1,400 people are missing

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omanobserver.om /2 days ago

Is there a stream of disasters rolling out?

​Have you noticed the news these days is filled with disasters?​What is striking is the relentless combination of natural calamities and man-made mishaps. Many are left wondering w...

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utilitydive.com /1 week ago

Property risk in natural resources: The shift from severity to duration

Secondary perils, such as severe convective storms, are becoming a primary driver of earnings volatility.

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