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2022: The Year of the European Hailstorm
For the insurance industry and for everyone that keeps a…
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Persistent La Niña Conditions Aggravate Drought-Associated Crop Losses in Southern Brazil in 2021–22
Southern Brazil was impacted by drought conditions during…
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Hurricane Ian: Who Pays?
With loss estimates placing Major Hurricane Ian as one of…
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Hurricane Nicole: First Florida East Coast Landfall Since Katrina
It was the turn of Florida’s east coast to receive a…
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Impact of Inconsistent Geocoding on Risk Transfer and Pricing
There is an expectation that an address within an…
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Pool Re: Expanding U.K. Terrorism Insurance Coverage
I recently attended the annual Pool Re terrorism insurance…
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10 Years After Superstorm Sandy: The Paradox of More Flooding and Less Insurance
It has been 10 years since Hurricane Sandy, a.k.a. Superstorm Sandy, made its second landfall as a post-tropical storm in Brigantine, a city just north of Atlantic City, New Jersey, at around 8 p.m. local time on October 29, 2012. It remains one of the most destructive, deadly, and costly natural catastrophes in U.S. history.
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Five Ways RMS HD Modeling Helps You Manage European Windstorm Risk
Windstorms remain the main driver of natural catastrophe insured loss in Europe, due in part to high levels of insurance penetration across the region. While individual claims might be small, the sheer size of these storms means multiple countries at a time are often impacted, resulting in significant cumulative costs to (re)insurers.
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What Is a Risk Data Lake?
While the “data lake” has been around for some time, the…
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RMS Estimates US$67 Billion in Insured Losses from Hurricane Ian
Newark, CA – October 7, 2022 – RMS®, a Moody’s Analytics…
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Hurricane Ian: The Challenge of Getting Insights into Your Business Faster
As soon as Tropical Storm Ian was named on September 26,…
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The Problem of October Hurricanes
While the clean-up in Florida after the colossal damage…
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Hurricane Ian Makes Final Landfall in South Carolina Accompanied With Strong Winds, Storm Surge, and Heavy Rainfall
As Hurricane Ian departed into the Atlantic from Florida’s…
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Hurricane Ian: Strongest Hurricane in Southwest Florida Since 2004
The eighth named tropical storm of the current North…
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Hurricane Ian: A Potential Category Five Hurricane?
A quiet North Atlantic hurricane season has certainly…
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RMS Europe Windstorm HD Models Unify Climate Modeling to Enhance Risk Selection Across the Continent
Flood, hail, and convective storms have dominated…
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The Insurance Talent Crunch: Smart Approaches Make a Bigger Impact
If you examine any business sector, the current battle for…
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Breaking Down Data Silos with the RMS Unified Risk Analytics Platform
There’s no doubt that we now have more data and apps at…
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30 Years on From Hurricane Andrew: Managing a Storm of Florida’s Own Making
A version of this blog was published in The Insurer. With…
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2022 North Atlantic Hurricane Season Halftime Report: The Quiet Before the Storm?
With a few weeks to go until the North Atlantic Basin…
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Five Challenges Insurers Face to Get an Enterprise-Level View of Exposure
For (re)insurers, getting an enterprise-level view of…
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Two Types of Heat and Their Insurance Implications
The world is warming, and since the year 2000, there have…
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Looking at Long COVID
A sizeable proportion of people who recover from COVID-19…
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The Impact of Inconsistent Financial Modeling on Risk Pricing and Exposure
Most (re)insurers rely on an assortment of tools from a…
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Advancing the Use of Humanitarian Cat Bonds
In the U.K., as part of the New Year Honours List for 2022…
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Finding the Formula: Easier Said Than Done
If you have been following the news recently, you will…
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Reflections on the Impacts of Rising Claim Payouts in Recent Hurricanes
As another North Atlantic hurricane season begins, I can’t…
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Getting the Measure of Inflation for the (Re)insurance Industry
Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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What Factors Could Drive Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Risk This Season?
With June 1 heralding the official start of the 2022 North…
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2022 Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Outlook
North Atlantic and Western North Pacific Event Response
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Manual Data Processes Sapping Productivity? Data Automation Helps Rethink Risk Analysis
The property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry has…
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Learning From the 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak
Every unusual hazardous event offers lessons for enhancing…
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Two Types of Heat and Their Insurance Implications
The world is warming, and since the year 2000, there have…
RMS RiskLink and RiskBrowser with Version 22 Now Available
RMS® is excited to announce that a major new version of…
United States and Canada Winterstorm Modeling: Delivering the Latest View of Risk and New Flexibility
Hurricane Ida topped the list of U.S. catastrophe insured…
RMS Version 22 China Earthquake Model Update
The RMS RiskLink® Version 22 release scheduled for the end…
U.S. Wildfire: Calculating the Value of Mitigation Benefits From Forest Treatment Strategies
The hallmarks of climate change – such as prolonged…
RMS Expands Climate Change Model Suite to Include U.S Wildfire, U.S. Flood, Japan Typhoon Perils, and Updates North Atlantic Hurricane
Just under a year ago, RMS® announced the first RMS…
2021 Weather and Climate Catastrophes: Looking for the Climate Change Signature
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA…
RMS Working with Canopius to Enhance Climate Change Risk Analysis with RMS Climate Change Models
LONDON – December 13, 2021 – RMS®, the world’s leading…
Five Ways Catastrophe Risk Modeling Will Help the World Get to Net Zero
Goal number one for the upcoming COP26 conference in…
Making Sense of Net Zero
Robert Muir-Wood, Chief Research Officer, RMS, recently participated in the fourth event in The New
Industry Perspective: The Impact and Business of Climate Change
In this article, Matthew Kahn, economics professor at USC…
Preparing for the Climate Biennial Explanatory Scenario (CBES)
The newly released regulatory draft data templates indicate that the CBES exercise will be bigger
The Data Driving Wildfire Exposure Reduction
Recent research by RMS® in collaboration with the CIPR and…
RMS Global Catastrophe Model Leader Launches First Climate Change Models, Enabling New Risk Insights
NEWARK, CA – May 5, 2021 – RMS®, the world’s leading…
RMS Launches New Zealand Inland Flood HD Model: A New Era for Catastrophe Modeling
When thinking about natural disaster risk in New Zealand,…
North Atlantic Hurricane Version 21: Updated Event Rates that Reflect the Current Risk Landscape
With the release of the Version 21 (V21) updates to the…
Don’t Stress the Test: Preparing for the Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenario
Are you ready for the upcoming Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenario (CBES)? The newly released
Managing Risk as Our Climate Changes
Climate-related losses continue to increase. Of the US $1.…
Crossing the Climate Change Chasm with RMS
Watch Joss Matthewman’s presentation at this years RAA event, Cat Risk Management 2021. Of the $1.
Modeling the Economic Impact of Climate Change
For everyone working in risk management, there is an…
RMS Launches New Climate Change Models
NEWARK, CA – March 22, 2021 – RMS®, the world’s leading…
Quantifying Climate Change and Its Uncertainty
The findings of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from the…
European Flood and Climate Change: Examining the Potential Impact on Insured Losses
The latest scientific research suggests that flooding in…
RMS Enables Organizations to “Flatten the Curve” From Acute and Chronic Disasters With Modern Risk Technology
NEWARK, CA – May 6, 2020 – The world is experiencing the…
This Changes Everything
At Exceedance 2020, RMS explored the key forces currently…
Climate Change: The Cost of Inaction
With pressure from multiple directions for a change in the…
Today's Stress Test for Tomorrow's Climate
Why the PRA’s stress test has pushed climate change to the…
Finding the City That Holds Your Climate Future
Imagine, instead of trying to communicate the prospective…
Impact of Inconsistent Geocoding on Risk Transfer and Pricing
There is an expectation that an address within an…
Breaking Down Data Silos with the RMS Unified Risk Analytics Platform
There’s no doubt that we now have more data and apps at…
30 Years on From Hurricane Andrew: Managing a Storm of Florida’s Own Making
A version of this blog was published in The Insurer. With…
2022 North Atlantic Hurricane Season Halftime Report: The Quiet Before the Storm?
With a few weeks to go until the North Atlantic Basin…
Five Challenges Insurers Face to Get an Enterprise-Level View of Exposure
For (re)insurers, getting an enterprise-level view of…
The Impact of Inconsistent Financial Modeling on Risk Pricing and Exposure
Most (re)insurers rely on an assortment of tools from a…
RMS RiskLink and RiskBrowser with Version 22 Now Available
RMS® is excited to announce that a major new version of…
Finding the Formula: Easier Said Than Done
If you have been following the news recently, you will…
Lessons from Hurricane Ida: How Catastrophe Modeling Can Help Plug the U.S. Flood Protection Gap
Flood remains the most underinsured climate risk in the U.…
RMS Version 22 China Earthquake Model Update
The RMS RiskLink® Version 22 release scheduled for the end…
How Poor Data Fidelity Erodes Trust in Model Validation – And Can Stall Change Management
From client feedback, it is clear there is no one-size-…
How to Avoid the Hidden IT Costs of Risk Model Change Management
The change management process for a (re)insurer – with…
Risk Modeler Winter Release: Unlock Cat Modeling Productivity With New Workflow Enhancements
A recent report from Accenture entitled The Cloud…
ExposureIQ Makes Understanding Loss Exposures Across Insurance and Reinsurance Possible
What if you had a tool that could give you a more complete…
Data Quality as an Underwriting Differentiator: Using Effective Tools for Triage
When working together with our property and casualty (P…
Introducing RMS Global Flood Solution Suite: Manage All Your Flood Risk on One Cloud Platform
The Global Flood Challenge: Coverage, Complexity, and…
RMS Launches New Zealand Inland Flood HD Model: A New Era for Catastrophe Modeling
When thinking about natural disaster risk in New Zealand,…
Latest ExposureIQ: Delivering the Future of Exposure Management
I recently saw a presentation by the U.K.’s Institute and…
RiskLink® and RiskBrowser® Version 21: A Seamless Transition to Risk Management in the Cloud
It has been a year since I took to the (virtual) stage at…
Responding to Events through ExposureIQ: Examples from Earthquakes in Japan
10 years on from the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the recent 2021 offshore Fukushima and
Learning from Katrina and Reshaping Risk Evaluation
Katrina provided an opportunity to rethink old practices…
Advanced Risk Analytics
Understanding risk, integrating predictive analytics, and…
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Be Prepared During Uncertainty With RMS
You need the highest level of confidence in your models…
This Changes Everything
At Exceedance 2020, RMS explored the key forces currently…
Insurance: The next 10 years
Mohsen Rahnama, Cihan Biyikoglu and Moe Khosravy of RMS…
The Future of Risk Management
(Re)insuring new and emerging risks requires data and,…
Will Summer 2022-23 Result in a Season of Tropical Cyclones and Floods for Australia?
October to April represents the peak period for extreme…
2022: The Year of the European Hailstorm
For the insurance industry and for everyone that keeps a…
Then and Now: Fifty Years after Quimburga
On November 13, 1972, now some 50 years ago, one of the…
Hurricane Nicole: First Florida East Coast Landfall Since Katrina
It was the turn of Florida’s east coast to receive a…
10 Years After Superstorm Sandy: The Paradox of More Flooding and Less Insurance
It has been 10 years since Hurricane Sandy, a.k.a. Superstorm Sandy, made its second landfall as a post-tropical storm in Brigantine, a city just north of Atlantic City, New Jersey, at around 8 p.m. local time on October 29, 2012. It remains one of the most destructive, deadly, and costly natural catastrophes in U.S. history.
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Five Ways RMS HD Modeling Helps You Manage European Windstorm Risk
Windstorms remain the main driver of natural catastrophe insured loss in Europe, due in part to high levels of insurance penetration across the region. While individual claims might be small, the sheer size of these storms means multiple countries at a time are often impacted, resulting in significant cumulative costs to (re)insurers.
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Should We Have Expected the 2022 Hail Losses in France?
2022 has seen hailstorm records being broken in France,…
RMS Estimates US$67 Billion in Insured Losses from Hurricane Ian
Newark, CA – October 7, 2022 – RMS®, a Moody’s Analytics…
The Problem of October Hurricanes
While the clean-up in Florida after the colossal damage…
Hurricane Ian Makes Final Landfall in South Carolina Accompanied With Strong Winds, Storm Surge, and Heavy Rainfall
As Hurricane Ian departed into the Atlantic from Florida’s…
Hurricane Ian: Strongest Hurricane in Southwest Florida Since 2004
The eighth named tropical storm of the current North…
Hurricane Ian: A Potential Category Five Hurricane?
A quiet North Atlantic hurricane season has certainly…
RMS Europe Windstorm HD Models Unify Climate Modeling to Enhance Risk Selection Across the Continent
Flood, hail, and convective storms have dominated…
30 Years on From Hurricane Andrew: Managing a Storm of Florida’s Own Making
A version of this blog was published in The Insurer. With…
2022 North Atlantic Hurricane Season Halftime Report: The Quiet Before the Storm?
With a few weeks to go until the North Atlantic Basin…
Advancing the Use of Humanitarian Cat Bonds
In the U.K., as part of the New Year Honours List for 2022…
RMS RiskLink and RiskBrowser with Version 22 Now Available
RMS® is excited to announce that a major new version of…
Finding the Formula: Easier Said Than Done
If you have been following the news recently, you will…
Reflections on the Impacts of Rising Claim Payouts in Recent Hurricanes
As another North Atlantic hurricane season begins, I can’t…
Getting the Measure of Inflation for the (Re)insurance Industry
Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
2022 Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Outlook
North Atlantic and Western North Pacific Event Response
Manual Data Processes Sapping Productivity? Data Automation Helps Rethink Risk Analysis
The property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry has…
Latest Risk Insights for Central and South American Earthquakes
The updated Version 22 RMS® Central and South America…
United States and Canada Winterstorm Modeling: Delivering the Latest View of Risk and New Flexibility
Hurricane Ida topped the list of U.S. catastrophe insured…
How RMS Analytical Services Is on Track to Achieve Nearly 25 Percent Process Efficiency through Automation
For (re)insurers, the efficient modeling of property…
RMS Version 22 China Earthquake Model Update
The RMS RiskLink® Version 22 release scheduled for the end…
U.S. Wildfire: Calculating the Value of Mitigation Benefits From Forest Treatment Strategies
The hallmarks of climate change – such as prolonged…
RMS Launches New Probabilistic Flood Models to Simplify Flood Risk Management Across Southeast Asia
The floods that severely impacted Malaysia and Indonesia…
Five Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Flood Risk (Part Two)
This second blog of the series delves further into new…
Five Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Flood Risk (Part One)
RMS® Global Flood Maps are already generating a wealth of…
Managing Risk and Catastrophe Modeling for the Growing Renewables Sector
The demand for renewable sources of energy grows every…
Risk Modeling and the Rise of Renewables
In April 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden announced a goal…
Australia: Comparing Earthquake Rates for New South Wales
The Mw5.9 earthquake that hit close to Melbourne,…
La Palma Eruption and North Atlantic Tsunami Risk
In 2001, the geophysicist Steven N Ward (from UC Santa…
Five Ways Catastrophe Risk Modeling Will Help the World Get to Net Zero
Goal number one for the upcoming COP26 conference in…
2021 North Atlantic Hurricane Season Half-Time Report: A Busy Second Half?
With a few weeks passed since the climatological peak of…
Modeling the Perfect Storm: How Antecedent Conditions Can Compound the Severity of Flood Tail Risk Events
What material difference do antecedent hydrologic…
Deconstructing Social Inflation
After the loss creep associated with Hurricane Irma in…
Season of Flood: Flood Risk Is Complex. Managing It Shouldn’t Be.
As the world has witnessed, the recent catastrophic…
InsuranceERM Award Recognizes Importance of Effective Wildfire Modeling
It is a great honor to receive the InsuranceERM 2021…
The Earthquakes That Changed Everything
In the decade since the devastating 2011 Tohoku and…
RMS Tropical Cyclone Outlook Report: What’s in Store for 2021?
Storm watchers have already marked off the first storm of…
Now Available: The 2021 Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Outlook
An in-depth look at Atlantic and Western North Pacific…
The Data Driving Wildfire Exposure Reduction
Recent research by RMS® in collaboration with the CIPR and…
RMS Announces New Models and RiskLink Version 21.0
NEWARK, CA – May 5, 2021 – RMS®, the world’s leading…
Introducing RMS Global Flood Solution Suite: Manage All Your Flood Risk on One Cloud Platform
The Global Flood Challenge: Coverage, Complexity, and…
RMS Launches New Zealand Inland Flood HD Model: A New Era for Catastrophe Modeling
When thinking about natural disaster risk in New Zealand,…
RMS Models Offer New Probabilistic Approach to Simplify Flood Management Across Southeast Asia
The approach of the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Thailand…
Latest ExposureIQ: Delivering the Future of Exposure Management
I recently saw a presentation by the U.K.’s Institute and…
North Atlantic Hurricane Version 21: Updated Event Rates that Reflect the Current Risk Landscape
With the release of the Version 21 (V21) updates to the…
RMS Adds Inland Flood Peril to China Catastrophe Model Suite: Now Models 99 Percent of Property Average Annual Loss
China Flood Insurance: Market Challenges and Opportunities…
RiskLink® and RiskBrowser® Version 21: A Seamless Transition to Risk Management in the Cloud
It has been a year since I took to the (virtual) stage at…
Now Available: The 2020 Catastrophe Review
A look back on an exceptional year of catastrophic events
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A Changing Model for Natural Disasters
A new breed of forecasting creates opportunities for (re)…
InsuranceAsia News Awards: Time to Celebrate Excellence
Our partners in the insurance media have adapted admirably…
Applying New Science and New Data to Risk Modeling
Robert Muir-Wood, PhD, Chief Research Officer at RMS, discusses how new science and data is applied
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Atlantic Hurricane in 2020: Are We in Store for Another Record-Breaking Year?
In the midst of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, with…
Japan Seismic Risk: Don’t Forget the Faults!
Japan and more specifically Tokyo lie at the intersection…
Typhoon Faxai: Strongest Typhoon to Impact Greater Tokyo in Fifteen Years
Power outages in Chiba Prefecture looked set to continue …
Ridgecrest: A Wake-Up Call
Marleen Nyst and Nilesh Shome of RMS explore some of the…
The Value of Defense
Current flood defenses in the U.K. reduce annual losses…
Where Tsunami Warnings Are Etched in Stone
EXPOSURE looks back at the 2011 Tohoku event and other…
Cyber is Uncertain, Probabilistic, and Chaotic: It’s Time Insurers Manage It like a Catastrophe Risk
Cyber risk represents one of the fastest-growing…
Cyber Solutions 5.2: Gain Faster Insights Today, Increase Capacity for the Future
The global cyber risk insurance market is growing and…
Succeeding in a Changing Cyber Risk Landscape
Though a relatively new peril, cyber risk is dynamic – and…
Data Breach: A Deep Dive Into RMS Cyber Model & Data
With the ever-changing threat landscape as well as the advances in the regulatory environment,
Lessons from SolarWinds Breach: How IT Supply Chain Attacks Can Cause Serious Cyber Insurance Losses
This article was originally published in Insurance Day -…
Recent Cyberattacks Raise Awareness of Cyber Risk in New Zealand, Australia, and Countries Across Asia
Leaders representing smaller nations might assume that…
Quantify Your Silent Cyber Exposure With These Three Steps
In 2017, WannaCry infected computers in over 150 countries…
Cyberterrorism: A Risk Assessment
Technological advances in communications, computing and…
Longevity and Excess Mortality Modeling
Catastrophic natural or man-made events such as pandemics…
New, More Transmissible U.K. Variant of SARS-CoV-2
While England was enduring its second lockdown during…
Protecting Against the Next Pandemic
The provision of insurance protection against pandemic…
Terrorism Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic
While countries across the world continue to tackle the…
RMS Enables Organizations to “Flatten the Curve” From Acute and Chronic Disasters With Modern Risk Technology
NEWARK, CA – May 6, 2020 – The world is experiencing the…
Breaking Down the Pandemic
As COVID-19 has spread across the world and billions of…
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