Modeler Risk Management Solutions

• Alfa To Drop 73,000 Property Policies In Alabama

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 6, 2011

  Alfa Insurance, Alabama’s second-largest writer of homeowners insurance, says it is dropping 73,000 policies over the next 16 months following the costliest storm in the company’s history.

• Japan Rocked By 9.0 Quake; Will It Change The Market?

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com, Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com, Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com, Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 18, 2011

  In the wake of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, with insured-loss estimates reaching as high as $35 billion, analysts and rating agencies fell on either side of the debate about whether the event will cause a turn in the long-running soft-market cycle.

• NZ Rocked By Second Quake In 6 Months; Loss Estimates $3.5B-$12B

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 7, 2011

  Losses from a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand Feb. 21 (Feb. 22 local time) could total as much as $12 billion, according to one estimate cited in a note to clients from a JP Morgan Chase & Co. analyst.

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  New Zealand Quake Could Be Among Top 10 Costliest World Events

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 23, 2011

  Some estimates of insured losses due to the second earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, in six months put the disaster potentially within the top ten most costly world insurance losses since 1970.

• Another Quake Strikes New Zealand; Losses Could Top $1B

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 22, 2011

  As insurers report high losses and increased loss estimates from the last New Zealand earthquake, another temblor has rocked the same area.

• November Still Ripe For Hurricane Activity, Cat Modeler Warns

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 4, 2010

  Modeler Risk Management Solutions (RMS) said the end of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season is not the time to relax.

• November Still Ripe For Hurricane Activity, Cat Modeler Warns

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 3, 2010

  Modeler Risk Management Solutions (RMS) said the end of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season is not the time to relax. Conditions "are still ripe for further activity."

• Super Typhoon Megi Blasts The Philippines

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 18, 2010

  In the Philippines, thousands evacuated and farmers rushed to harvest as many crops as possible as Super Typhoon Megi made landfall with maximum sustained winds of about 140 miles per hour.

• Tropical Storm Matthew May Take Aim At Florida

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 24, 2010

  This morning Central America was introduced to Tropical Storm Matthew, which could become a hurricane and head into the Gulf of Mexico threatening Florida.

• Public, Private Insurers Respond After New Zealand Earthquake

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 8, 2010

  Modeler Risk Management Solutions (RMS) said most of the losses from the earthquake in New Zealand will be residential, with a majority being paid out by the Earthquake Commission.