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Profiles in Risk – E460: Creating Ultra-HighRes Vegetation Mapping For Better Wildfire Defense; Gus Calderon, Co-Founder of FireWatch

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Vegetative fuel models are a vital component for wildfire stakeholders in understanding the frequency and severity of wildfire events. It is the fuel models which allow us to simulate events and study how a wildfire will behave under certain circumstances. Wildfire spread is highly correlated with the density of vegetation and the combustibility of that … Read more

Profiles in Risk: E451 – Managing Extreme Climate Risk With Better (Business) Models; Andrew Engler, CEO, Co-Founder of Kettle

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There is no shortage of research and companies looking at extreme climate events to create new and better models that will make insurers better. A team of scientists get together looking to take their wisdom and insights, wrap it in software and go to London, Bermuda and elsewhere to sell that software to companies in … Read more

Latency Catastrophes – Will There Be Another Asbestos?

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  An underwriter can be deemed the wizard of the insurance industry, peering into his/her magic ball to ensure they are well-positioned to react to a culture shift in an ever-changing market.    Bob Reville delved into these proverbial underwriting powers as he wondered what the next “latency  catastrophe” may be in his article, “The … Read more

The Job of Underwriting and the Next Asbestos

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This article originally appeared here and we at Insurance Nerds think all of our readers would benefit from the insights in it. Thanks to Praedicat for permission to republish. We recently did a survey of some of our customers and out of all the answers to the survey, the one that has stuck with me the … Read more