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Insurance & Technology October 7, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell	Mean Season In addition to driving a more expeditious claims process, technology has played an important role in minimizing the effect of an event like Katrina on the fortunes of insurance companies and the industry as a whole.
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.
Insurance & Technology March 7, 2006 Deena M. Amato-McCoy	Storm Surge Refusing to be caught off guard again, insurance companies are reexamining their IT strategies and operations in anticipation of the fast-approaching 2006 hurricane season.
Insurance & Technology March 9, 2007 Nathan Conz	Travelers Deploys Mobile Catastrophe Units to Respond to Florida Tornadoes By deploying mobile claims vehicles to the recent tornado-damaged central Florida region, the P&C insurance provider was able to focus its response efforts and minimize claims adjustment lag time.
CRM January 2013 Leonard Klie	Sandy Put Service to the Test Insurers turned to mobile and social technologies to respond to the October superstorm.
Insurance & Technology October 12, 2004 Wendy Toth	Hurricane Warfare Insurers find a variety of ways to leverage technology to help claimants recover from the onslaught of ferocious storms.
Insurance & Technology November 15, 2007 Katherine Burger	Insurers' Technology Investments Transform Catastrophe Claims Management Strategies While technology's power is welcomed by the public, politicians and the media in terms of catastrophe claims response, it's not always so appreciated when it comes to how insurers deploy it to forecast, analyze and underwrite risks.
Insurance & Technology September 16, 2005 Deena M. Amato-McCoy	Eye of the Storm Insurers that implement processes and technologies for accurately assessing data and measuring risk across business lines and geographies before disaster strikes will weather the storm.
Insurance & Technology January 17, 2006 Maria Woehr	Claims Tool Kit The 2005 hurricane season brightened the spotlight on emerging technologies with which insurance carriers arm their adjusters: Ruggedized Laptops... Mobile Phone... GPS System... Straight Line Laser...etc.
The Motley Fool September 10, 2004 Rich Duprey	Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible How will companies and investors fare if the storm spawns moderate damage?
This Old House	Hurricane Insurance Update A natural disaster is bad enough without a insurance disaster on top of it. Here are seven suggestions for proper coverage.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2011 Tim Beyers	Hartford Financial Services Group Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Shares of Hartford Financial Services Group surged more than 12% in early trading on news that damage from Hurricane Irene wouldn't be as costly as expected.
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.
BusinessWeek January 16, 2006 Adam Aston	The Worst Isn't Over Smarter science is helping companies and insurers plan for hurricanes. The bad news: This year could be another doozy.
Insurance & Technology February 18, 2005 Wendy Toth	Picking Up The Pace The pace of claims settlement from Florida's recent hurricane season is setting records: Insurers have closed nearly 86 percent of the record total of claims reported for the four major storms of 2004.
Insurance & Technology June 29, 2010 Nathan Golia	Alex Expected to Make Landfall as Hurricane In a statement, Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions noted Alex's similarity to 2008's Hurricane Dolly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Insurance & Technology August 19, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	Hurricane Bill Now Category 4, Expected to Miss U.S., Bermuda Latest forecasts indicate that neither the U.S. or Bermuda likely to be affected by Hurricane Bill, though Nova Scotia could feel the effects of the storm early next week, according to some scenarios.
The Motley Fool September 4, 2007 Selena Maranjian	Don't Wait for the Flood If you want insurance coverage against floods, you need to get it sooner than you think.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2007 Emil Lee	Disaster Preparedness: Are Insurers Ready for the Big One? With private insurers withdrawing from the coastal areas, leaving the taxpayers holding the bag, one wonders: What should investors do if the big one does hit?
Job Journal February 26, 2006 Julia Hollister	Claims Adjusters Insurance claims adjusters are among the first to help at the scene of a disaster. Specialists, such as those who handle natural disasters, can earn $80 to $300 an hour, boosting their annual pay to over $100,000.
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.
Popular Mechanics March 6, 2006	Hurricane Katrina August 28, 2005 Video Conference The transcript here suggests that, contrary to popular perception, federal authorities were alert to the risks posed by Katrina and fully engaged in planning for the disaster.
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Insurance & Technology August 31, 2009 Nathan Conz	Hurricane Jimena Strengthened to Category 4 Storm Hurricane Jimena is forecast to make landfall within the next two days.
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Insurance & Technology January 26, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell	The Perfect Storm Model To help insurance carriers scientifically assess their exposure to those losses, EQECAT issued the first probabilistic catastrophe model for U.S. winter storms.
This Old House Scott Omelianuk	On Survival: Wishing Us All a Safe Haven As the East Coast recovers from Hurricane Sandy, this article reflects on the storm's destruction and the strengths such disasters can bring out in all of us
Geotimes September 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Rita: Could Have Been Worse The Category-3 storm was not nearly as devastating as Hurricane Katrina, but damage from wind, fire and flooding still prevent some residents from returning to their homes and businesses.
Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Katherine Burger	Here We Go Again This year's hurricane season could all end up being much ado about nothing, but it also could turn out to be the proverbial worst-case scenario, and of course, the insurance industry has to prepare for the worst.
This Old House David Dobbs	Weathering the Storm Ask these questions to choose the right catastrophe insurance.
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.
Insurance & Technology August 17, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	Warming Atlantic Delivers Three Tropical Cyclones, First Hurricane of the Season Tropical Storm Bill is predicted to become a major hurricane between 48 and 60 hours, as it moves to the northwest from a position east of the Lesser Antilles.
Entrepreneur July 2004 Jacquelyn Lynn	Going Public Public insurance adjusters have skills and knowledge that you may not have in-house and could help you get what you deserve from a claim.
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.
Geotimes November 2005 Megan Sever	The Increasing Costs of U.S. Natural Disasters Population trends, mitigation efforts and federal disaster relief policies all contribute to encouraging high-risk land use and ultimately to making our society more vulnerable to the costs of natural disasters.
Inc. September 1, 2009 Anthony & Fernandez	America's Fastest-Growing Private Company? It's in Insurance When the big insurers exited the Florida market, a start-up saw an opportunity.
Insurance & Technology September 5, 2007 Nathan Conz	Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Performs Well With Catastrophe Response, Survey Says Chubb Group of Insurance Companies credits its call centers and pen-based tablet PCs for its catastrophe response effort after strong April storms in the Northeast US.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2005 Mann & Hanson	Prepare for Your Insurance to Triple Money is difficult to talk about in the wake of a disaster, but insurance companies aren't evil for not wanting to pay more than their fair share. Any attempt to make them pay for damages for which they're not contracted will have disastrous consequences.
Geotimes February 2006 Robert S. Young	The High Cost of Subsidized Coastal Development Coastal geologists, engineers and managers can objectively determine where the most vulnerable shorelines are. And in the interest of fairness, American taxpayers must insist that the communities that build there assume responsibility for themselves.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	NASA Airborne Laser Mapping Systems Studies Katrina Damage Through a cooperative research program NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are exploring the use of airborne laser mapping systems to quantify coastal change along the entire coastline affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Bank Systems & Technology January 31, 2006 Ivan Schneider	Vicious Hurricane Cycle Although one can hope that the upcoming hurricane season will defy the predictions that have accompanied the start of the decades-long hurricane cycle, the banks in the Gulf Coast must do more than hope. They must plan, and plan for the worst.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2005 Margaret Leonard	Rebuilding After Katrina Investors and operators of more than 10,000 businesses in New Orleans have lost uncounted millions. The same storm also brought opportunities worth billions in redevelopment and restoration of a city.
Insurance & Technology January 7, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell	Insurers Improve Claims Process Through IT Alliance Achieving optimal claims performance requires a high level of IT/business alignment to deliver high-tech, high-touch service.
Insurance & Technology July 19, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell	The Emerging Wireless World Wireless may not yet live up to the hype, but many insurers are steadily moving wireless strategies off the drawing board and into the competitive arena.