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Insurance & Technology August 12, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell	Stormy Weather Hurricane Dennis provoked an early debut of technologically driven tools and strategies demonstrating the evolution of CAT-related solutions, or simply representing such technology's increasing availability.
Geotimes February 2007 Richard J. Murnane	Science, Catastrophe Risk Models and Insurance An appreciation of how scientific research is used in the insurance industry's catastrophe risk models provides some insight on the relationship between geoscience and insurance.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Gene G. Marcial	Chubb's Safe Harbor With Hurricane Frances threatening Florida, insurance stocks are being battered. But to the managing director at Wood Asset Management, now is the time to buy shares of Chubb.
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Insurance & Technology December 23, 2005 Maria Woehr	Bracing for the Claims Storm Many insurance carriers have invested in new back-office and field technologies within the past year to enable more-efficient claims processing and provide better customer service. And, for many, it wasn't a moment too soon.
Geotimes April 2005 Laura Stafford	New Seasonal Hurricane Prediction Scientists are proposing a new method for assessing the probability of a "good" or "bad" hurricane season, which could give insurance companies the ability to plan in advance what sort of protection they may need for their clients.
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Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Maria Woehr	Not Risking It The availability of catastrophe models generated overconfidence among insurers, which, after the past hurricane season, are realizing the technology's limitations. However, insurers will still continue to rely on cat modeling to reduce risk exposure.
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The Motley Fool August 16, 2004 Bill Mann	Charley Smacks Florida, Insurers The hurricane unleashed its fury on Florida. The residual impact shouldn't be as bad as Andrew's. This time, the insurance companies were ready.
Insurance & Technology June 1, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell	Kansas Tornados Are Occasion to Hone CAT Management Skills The devastating tornado that struck Greensburg Kansas provided the opportunity for insurers such as State Farm and Travelers to exercise their catastrophe management competence on a small scale.
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National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2004 Hortense Leon	Sunshine State Weathers the Storm In order to boost hotel reservations, Tallahassee-based Visit Florida, a public/private tourism marketing organization, is planning to ask the State Legislature in December for as much as $30 million for "perception advertising."
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The Motley Fool September 29, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Wendy's Stormy September The fast food purveyor suffers more hurricane damage. Investors were already prepared for this news last week.
Insurance & Technology April 2, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell	Waiting on the Customer Crafting a cost-effective customer-centric claims environment takes a calibrated combination of high-tech and high-touch solutions.
Insurance & Technology December 23, 2005 Maria Woehr	Forecasting Disaster Benfield, a London-based reinsurance and risk intermediary, in partnership with Tropical Storm Risk, an independent research organization, developed ReMetrica, a new modeling methodology to help carriers with investments affected by the weather in the U.S. manage risk effectively.
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The Motley Fool August 30, 2005 W.D. Crotty	Can Stocks Weather the Storms? Katrina leaves behind short-term investment winners. But how much battering can a company take?
The Motley Fool September 21, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Page Against the Machine Books-A-Million falls short and points to the recent hurricanes.
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	An Insurance Storm One month into hurricane season, commercial property owners along the Gulf and Florida coasts are coming to grips with the jaw-dropping costs of insuring against future hurricanes.
Reason May 2007 Jacob Sullum	Hurricanes Happen Insurance price controls in Florida: The state legislature is ordering insurance companies to charge less for homeowner's policies.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2007 Buz Livingston	Report From Hurricane Alley It doesn't matter if you live in Minnesota or in Miami -- disasters can strike any area. Here are some financial tips for weathering any storm.
Insurance & Technology March 16, 2004 Julie Gallagher	Battening Down the Hatches When it comes to predicting low-frequency, high-impact catastrophes, underwriters of risk must rely on thousands of years of scenarios rather than their proprietary loss data.
U.S. Banker January 2005 Michael Sisk	Beating Back 'Ivan the Terrible' Banks in the way of the 15 storms and hurricanes that slammed Florida and the Gulf Coast last year learned a lesson about disasters. Being prepared works.
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BusinessWeek May 14, 2007 Coy & Aston	Hurricane Ahead, But Lower Insurance Why the price of property coverage is going down in the face of dire predictions.
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Geotimes August 2005 Naomi Lubick	Hurricane Katrina Hits Hard One of the largest hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast region since Hurricane Camille in 1969, Hurricane Katrina left a trail of devastation behind it as it touched down in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
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Insurance & Technology September 1, 2008 Katherine Burger	Heeding the Lessons of Katrina, Insurance Companies -- and Other Institutions -- Improve Catastrophe Response The responses to Hurricanes Fay and Gustav shows that much has been learned in the three years since Hurricane Katrina. But are carriers as insightful about the symbolic implications of these storms?
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