In his short story, "The Rich Boy," F. Scott Fitzgerald summed up the challenge facing insurers and independent agents who target elite personal lines clients--those with mansions, fancy cars, yachts,
Nov. 30, 2006 brought the biggest sigh of relief the insurance industry has exhaled in quite some time. It came at the end of a hurricane season that was projected to be as active as any we have seen
After many years of increasing arson losses from a variety of sources in the early 1990s, the number of reported arson fires decreased annually from 85,500 in 1996 to only 31,500 in 2005.
The 2006 hurricane season let coastal regions of the United States off relatively lightly. Forecasters, however, continue to predict historically active seasons for the near-term, and--while they may
In October of 2006 America's population reached 300,000,000. Every 11 seconds another American is born, arrives, comes home, or otherwise becomes a statistic.
The blaze in the San Jacinto Mountains, which authorities said was due to arson, has blackened nearly 24,000 acres, or almost 38 square miles, and already forced hundreds to evacuate, according to wir
Claims News Service, 1:45 p.m. EST -- AIR Worldwide (AIR), a risk modeling and technology firm that specializes in natural and man-made catastrophes, weather and climate, has released a new model
Claims News Service, 1:45 p.m. EST -- AIR Worldwide (AIR), a risk modeling and technology firm that specializes in natural and man-made catastrophes, weather and climate, has released a new model
AIR Worldwide Corporation has released its U.S. wildfire model, a probabilistic model designed to help insurers understand the location of their exposures and to estimate potential losses from