Public Sector Risk

Natural catastrophes appear to be increasing in severity if not frequency, which may partly be due to climate change.

Exchange ideas with industry experts on the current state of flood insurance, flood reform and ideas for private solutions.

The five passengers trapped in a helicopter that ditched into the East River off New York Sunday night may have died because they were wearing hard-to-remove harnesses in the stricken craft, investigators said.

Marsh executives John Drzik and Thomas Reagan provided insights at the latest media breakfast briefing to discuss the launch of Marsh and Microsoft's new Global Cyber Risk Perception Survey.

"Nearly every major continent recorded noteworthy natural disaster impacts during the month of February," Steve Bowen, Impact Forecasting director and meteorologist, said in a statement.

The new estimate of 41 million people does not even include the millions of additional Americans that are at risk of coastal flooding.