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• No room for complacency in 2021 Atlantic hurricane season

  31 May 2021

  Forecasters have predicted another "above-normal" hurricane season, although not as bad as 2020. But as the season gets underway, insurers and catastrophe modellers have stressed there is no place for complacency. Paul Walsh reports

• The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season: breaking unexpected records

  27 November 2020

  This year will be remembered for the having the largest number of tropical storms, but it has been a relatively lucky season without serious losses. For insurers and risk modellers, the long-term impact may be the advances in technology forced upon them by the pandemic, as Paul Walsh reports

• AIR picks fight with RMS over Atlantic hurricane models

  18 May 2018

  Cat modelling quarrel spills into Twitter spat

• Hurricane loss estimates: clawing for credibility

  24 October 2017

  Cat modellers' loss estimates following this year's major hurricanes were surprisingly far apart. Christopher Cundy asks if the sector is doing the right thing

• Hiscox hires modelling expert to lead catastrophe research

  09 March 2017

  Shree Khare will develop Hiscox's own view of risk