All Claims Management articles – Page 29
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Features
A geographical understanding of risk
The advent of satellite navigation and the birth of Google Earth, Google Maps and France’s Geoportail have alerted everyone involved in the management of catastrophes to the value of geographical information systems. By François-Xavier Goblet
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Seeing risk: Floods
The 2007 UK summer floods pushed flooding up the agenda for politicians and businesses alike. A year and a half later topographical maps and modelling technologies have improved to give us better tools to manage the risks. By Justin Butler
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Catastrophe Risk
Pricing catastrophe risks – new quantitative paper
Market-based catastrophe risk price found to be 2.69 times the expected loss over the long term
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FeaturesSubsidence: A gradual catastrophe
Subsidence losses have been a hidden catastrophe for the insurance industry. UK buildings insurers have paid out a total of more than €8 billion since 1976, and the cost of claims in France since its inclusion in the Catastrophes Naturelles scheme in 1989 forced the government to increase insurance premium ...
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Features
Calculating the risk of terrorism
An investment in basic research on terrorism will be paid back many times, as a better knowledge of threats will make risk calculation more of a science than an art. By Professor Alex Schmid
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FeaturesWhy the next big northeast hurricane will surprise
A repeat of the 1938 New England Hurricane could cause losses as large as Hurricane Katrina in 2005. By Karen Clark
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Catastrophe RiskCalifornia earthquake animations online
3-D animations of California earthquakes are available from US Geological Survey
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FeaturesWinds of change for agricultural risks
Changing climate and commodity price trends are steering agricultural risk in a new direction. The result is a rethink of exposure, products and product design. By Thomas Heintz
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Catastrophe RiskThe 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season
During the 2008 hurricane season, the number of tropical storms and hurricanes exceeded long term averages. The year produced two events which resulted in serious damage in the United States; Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, and an unusually strong late storm, Hurricane Paloma. By Peter Dailey
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Insurance won’t respond to Irish pork scare: Broker
First party product recall insurance will not indemnify for the costs associated with contaminated pork products, said Miller
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Aon and Allianz launch joint insurance
New product designed to stabilise insurance portfolios, but it’s not available to financial firms
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AIRMIC and insurers agree reservation of rights principles
Principles intend to clarify why a reservation of rights would be used and to improve dialogue between parties
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Online onlyAon launches new piracy protection
Says new insurance fills the gap in cover for the financial impact of business interruption
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Credit safety nets are withdrawn
Businesses told to implement robust continuity plans or risk insolvency
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Speaking to Parliament
AIRMIC is unsatisfied about the level of transparency of broker commissions
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AIRMIC PortfolioConcerns in current market
Risk managers are more concerned about the security of the insurance industry than rising premiums at present
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FeaturesEverything changes, nothing changes
Risk management is by no means a new idea. Andrew Leslie, deputy editor, StrategicRISK, looks back at medieval Europe to see how merchants and traders managed their risk
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FeaturesPaolo Rubini, director risk management, Telecom Italia & vice chairman, ANRA
Nathan Skinner quizzes one of Italy’s top risk managers on the challenges to his profession in a tricky economic climate
