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Cat risk: why forecasting climate change is a disaster
Forecasters are poles apart on climate-driven catastrophes; insurers fear worse ahead

Market participants seek to address earthquake model blind spots
Blind spots

Cat bonds poised for recovery after depressed year
Disaster recovery
Terrorism insurance - Modelling the unthinkable
In November, the US government passed a law requiring all insurers to underwrite terrorism risk, forcing them to find a way to price this exposure. Could terrorism risk models be the answer?
AIR releases US temperature database
AIRWeather, a division of Boston-based natural hazard modelling company AIR Worldwide Corporation, yesterday released PerfecTemp Hourly, claiming that it is the first cleaned and reconstructed hourly station temperature database for the US. PerfecTemp…
Boston-based AIR releases new catastrophe models for Asia-Pacific
AIR Worldwide Corporation, the Boston-based catastrophe modelling and weather risk management company, today released new typhoon and earthquake models for the Asia-Pacific region. The new typhoon models include Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines,…
Boston-based AIR releases terrorism risk model
AIR Worldwide, a Boston-based catastrophe and weather risk modelling company, today released what it claims is the first commercially available terrorism risk model. The model estimates the financial impact of insured property and workers' compensation…