Extreme Event Solutions

Hurricane Katrina is greatly known for its level of devastation in New Orleans, but how has the city prepared to protect themselves against a similar storm?

The big question facing many insurers and policyholders is: Are we equipped for these rare-but-devastating disasters?

A brief history of 3 major earthquakes will highlight the risks that European regions are susceptible to, even in modern day.

With a 6,435 km coastline along the Circum-Pacific belt, Chile has become resilient against earthquake damage with this iterative process.

Flooding remains a perennial problem during summer, along China’s major rivers, and in coastal provinces.

This article is the third and final one in our series on managing Japan earthquake risk; it describes our updates to modeling tsunami risk.

A century ago, on December 16, 1920, a massive earthquake struck Haiyuan County in north-central China’s remote Gansu Province.

In this article Harry White, CEEM, revisits our 2016 primer on the catastrophe bond issuance process to reflect changes in the cat bond market landscape and EES offerings

Many areas along Japan’s coastline are at risk of being significantly affected by tsunamis of 10m or higher, depending on their topography.

The Valdivia earthquake was a 9.5 Mw - great earthquakes are usually 8.0 Mw. Learn more about the greatest earthquake ever recorded.

To get a preliminary view of risk within the wildfire-affected areas of California, we used FireLine—Verisk’s wildfire risk management tool.

Verisk’s AIR Worldwide has updated its loss estimates for the recent California Wildfires after analyzing findings from its damage survey conducted during the week of October 30. AIR now estimates that insured losses from the Tubbs, Nuns, Atlas, Redwood, and Sulphur fires in California will be between $8 billion and $10.5 billion.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has selected AIR Worldwide’s innovative Inland Flood and Storm Surge Models for the United States to better understand the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) loss potential.

Verisk periodically publishes a list of the costliest historical U.S. earthquakes—were they to recur today.

Verisk estimates that industry insured losses from the Tubbs, Pocket, Nuns, Atlas, Redwood, and Sulphur fires in California will be between $2 to $3 billion.