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  • 2018 Atlantic hurricane season - the calm after the storm?

    01 June 2018

    Last year's Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most catastrophic in recent memory with insured losses estimated at over $130bn. Now 12 months later and on the first official day of the season, forecasters believe relative calmness awaits. But forecasters are often wrong. Paul Walsh reports.

  • RMS responds to AIR's attack on hurricane risk modelling

    29 May 2018

    Models should consider the most recent science, cat modelling firm argues

  • AIR picks fight with RMS over Atlantic hurricane models

    18 May 2018

    Cat modelling quarrel spills into Twitter spat

  • AIR Worldwide working with RenRe on liability cat modelling

    09 April 2018

    Developing probabilistic model for liability risks

  • Insurers facing billion dollar Friederike property losses, says Perils

    28 February 2018

    Storm struck large parts of Europe in January causing widespread damage

  • Risk and actuarial recruitment: boom time again

    22 February 2018

    Wages in actuarial and risk management roles are going up, in large part because of the opportunities created by IFRS 17, the new insurance contracts accounting standard. Cintia Cheong reports

  • The long-term impacts of 2017's natural catastrophes

    06 February 2018

    Following the devastation caused by hurricanes and wildfires last year, Paul Walsh asks the industry what the lessons are for insurers and risk modellers

  • Insurers' Californian fire bill nudges $12bn

    01 February 2018

    Almost all claims being handled in truncated process outlined by commissioner

  • European insurers facing €2.5bn Friederike bill

    25 January 2018

    Storm Friederike struck large parts of Europe in mid-January

  • Cloud vendor failure could cost US economy $15bn

    23 January 2018

    Lloyd's and AIR report highlights significant gap in cyber coverage