North America
37 whitepapers and resources
North America
Insuring against disasters - Florida's forgotten risk
When the last significant hurricane hit Florida, damage to pool screen enclosures accounted for 25% - 40% of the insurance losses. In this article, Wade Stier, Vice President and Underwriter of U.S. Property Treaty Reinsurance at XL Catlin, looks at this significant risk for insurers and reinsurers.
Redeveloping the urban core
With a preference for urban core working and living, America’s millennial demographic is causing us to rethink how we live and work. This article looks at the challenges associated with redeveloping brownfield sites into liveable, workable spaces and the role insurers can play in covering exposures.
Don’t let a storm blow away your profits this hurricane season
Protecting the bottom line in order to remain open, or to re open quickly after a hurricane disaster requires taking steps now to prevent or reduce damage, should your business be in the path of a violent storm. This article provides advice to businesses and shares links to external resources.
Global catastrophe recap: March 2017
Impact Forecasting evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during March 2017. Topics covered: extensive severe weather hits the United States; Cyclone Debbie impacts Australia; proclaimed ‘coastal El Niño’ affects South America.
An insurance buyer's guide to the US for UK companies
Making sure that your US operations are covered requires in-depth knowledge of the US market and its idiosyncrasies. Designed for insurance buyers, this report looks at the top four risks that UK companies face when buying insurance in the US – and how to overcome them.
Evolving criteria bulletin - Update on Stochastic-based BCAR
On May 5, A.M. Best published a briefing on initial industry feedback regarding the US P&C Stochastic BCAR Model. This article provides a summary of Aon Benfield’s views on the briefing and covers the use of extreme tail events for measuring capital adequacy plus VaR metrics for risk modelling.
Global catastrophe recap: April 2016
Global economy suffers worst April severe weather losses for five years, according to Aon's catastrophe study. Impact Forecasting continuously tracks the worldwide natural disaster perils and aggregates the insured and economic losses for each region in this monthly report.