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Mapping an Insurer’s Wildfire Exposure
By Marc Dahling and Gerry Hopkins Oct 03, 2019 English
How big is your exposure to wildfire?...Many insurers are working hard to answer this question. Wildfire activity has expanded, in size, location and dollar losses, and reached record levels in 2017 and 2018. Given California Department of Insurance reports...
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Series: Insurance IssuesUnderwriting Wildfire – Creating Your Hazard Map
Issue: Sep 09, 2019 Property English
The wildfire peril presents challenges to the insurance industry for individual risk analysis and portfolio management. We’ve worked with clients using spatial mapping and other tools to help analyze portfolios and to identify areas of peak exposure.
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When Two Cat Models Diverge and Neither Is Right, What Path Does an Underwriter Take?
By Andrew Zastrow Jun 17, 2019 English
In our fast-paced, data-driven world, underwriters are increasingly dependent on Cat models to price individual risk locations. But can underwriters price an individual location accurately by using a model? Should they rely on one model, or average the...
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Hurricane Harvey - Six Issues That May Impact Your Policy Wording
By Tedra Skelton Nov 19, 2017 English
Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, wildfires, hailstorms and tornadoes have wreaked havoc across the U.S. this year, leaving billions of dollars in damage in their wake. As an underwriter in Gen Re’s Dallas office, I am seeing the devastation from Hurricane...
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