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Chad Hemenway, Mark Ruquet
Hurricane Irene turned out to be more of a rain and flooding event than the wind event many had feared, but it still could crack the list of the 10 costliest U.S. storms if it hits the high end of insured-loss estimates.
Crop insurance has been available for many decades in key producing markets in North America, Europe, Australia and South Africa. Peril and multi-peril crop insurance are the main products available to predominantly large-scale farmers using modern farming technology.
Excessive droughts in Western Australia and Russia, unprecedented floods in Pakistan, as well as the current drought outlook for parts of Argentina and Brazil, not only captured media headlines in 2010 but also tightened the supply of key agricultural commodities.
Bryant Rousseau
The Risk Managers educational track at this years Workers Compensation Educational Conference, held August 21-24 in Orlando, featured a number of standout sessions. Here are some highlights.
Karl Zimmel
Is the world a riskier or safer place? We ask Karl Zimmel, director of risk-management services at UniSource Energy Corp.
Bryant Rousseau
As Irene rumbled up the East Coast on Aug. 26, we got to witness some very difficult risk-management decisions playing out in a very public sphere.
Personal-lines insurers capital strength and core-underwriting earnings power should offset challenges posed by natural catastrophes; high-frequency, low-severity weather events; and the very competitive nature of the market, according to Moodys Investors Service.
Mark Ruquet
The insurance industry performed poorly for the first half of this year, primarily due to an unprecedented level of catastrophes, and while the results may point to premium-price increases, other factors may keep a lid on them.
Donald L. Schmidt
A fire, hazardous chemical spill or bomb within a building obviously would necessitate immediate evacuation to a safe location outside the building. So having a solid, rehearsed plan in place could mean the difference between life and death. Here are critical tips to getting it right.
Arthur D. Postal
Here are the top eight legislative priorities that property and casualty insurance executives, and their lobbyists, should focus on if they hope to get anything enacted on Capital Hill this yearor for the entire 112th Congress that ends next year.
Nicole Homeier, Kyle Beatty, James Martin Griffin
With modern society's ubiquitous reliance on the electrical grid, a severe solar storm can wreak havoc on the electric power supply and trigger losses from business interruption and damaged physical assets.
Roman Hohl
Is the world a riskier or safer place? We ask Karl Zimmel, director of risk-management services at UniSource Energy Corp.
Space weather is a general term describing conditions in space that affect the Earth and our technological systems. Geomagnetic storms, which can not only cripple the electrical grid but also corrode oil and gas pipelines, are only one aspect of space weather.
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