Features – Page 7
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FeaturesExposures: An industry solution at last?
The insurance industry is continuing its efforts to agree a standard for catastrophe exposure data. By Puneet Bhara
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FeaturesPerspective on financial terrorism and insurance
With thousands of properties spread across the globe, HSBC has a significant exposure to terrorism and experience of damage to its City of London offices from an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in 1993. By Peter Walker
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FeaturesNo more easy oil
The development of deep water fields, often in remote locations lacking infrastructure, poses new challenges to the offshore energy industry, which must operate facilities safely over 20 to 30 years in harsh environmental conditions. By Phil Thomas and David Brown
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FeaturesUK flood claim and counter-claim
There have been times in the past year when the British public have witnessed scenes like those gunfighters at the OK Corral where insurers have stood their ground and called on Parliament to do something about flooding – or else. By Sam Elliott
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FeaturesCoping with new rules
Sweeping changes to environmental liability regulations are causing problems for insurers in their attempts to create suitable products, says Nathan Skinner
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FeaturesEffective Disaster Recovery
If fire, terrorists or hostile aliens zap your data centre, can you be back online before your business collapses? A good IT disaster recovery plan will be vital, as Carl Bradbury explains.
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FeaturesManaging new risks
Which emerging risks do companies think are important? And are they doing anything about them? Nathan Skinner analyses the results of our readership survey.
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FeaturesRisks and Opportunities of Nanotechnology
Building materials incorporating nano-particles may better withstand extreme events, but insurers worry about the liability implications of nanotechnology
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From Chaos Theory to Commodities
Isla Gilmour is a meteorologist who advises commodities traders on the impact of weather on their business. She talks to Catastrophe Risk Management about how science supports this important market. By Lee Coppack
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FeaturesPost-Katrina Litigation, Shows Need for Clarity
Hurricane Katrina was the single largest loss in the history of the insurance industry. Its place in the annals of insurance is also secure by virtue of it being the single most litigated loss on record. By Claire Wilkinson
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FeaturesUK Summer Floods Highlight Gaps in Flood Maps
Flood maps in the United Kingdom provide a good overview and are relatively comprehensive compared to flood maps for other countries, which tend to focus mainly on high risk areas. However, the summer 2007 floods highlighted a need for more information on urban and rural drainage, small rivers and ...
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FeaturesCulture that Avoids Disaster
Six key areas of organisational culture are essential to prevent catastrophic incidents like the Texas City refinery explosion and loss of the space shuttle Columbia. By Scott Berger
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FeaturesHow Building Codes Reduce Catastrophe Losses
Buildings completed under the requirements of a new Florida building code withstood hurricane winds in 2004 and 2005 while neighbouring, older properties were destroyed. But it should not take a disaster for our communities to adopt, implement and enforce the building safety codes that save lives every day. By Richard ...
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FeaturesGetting a Handle on Cargo
Cargo accumulations. Hard to understand. Harder still to quantify. Until now. By Herbie Lloyd
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FeaturesFrom Soup and Beer to Drought and Downpour
Some 30% of businesses worldwide have some direct exposure to weather related risks and 60% have indirect exposure. By Jean-Christophe Garaix
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FeaturesPublic Cat Schemes: Kittens Everywhere You Look!
Although the history of government insurance purchase for catastrophe risks is much shorter than that of the private sector, it is growing fast, as evidenced by the number of new schemes worldwide and the interest they have sparked in neighbouring countries. There are also clear trends in the development of ...
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FeaturesHow deep is your green?
Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project, talks to Nathan Skinner about climate change, CSR and the role of the sustainable enterprise in today's financial system
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FeaturesInsurers bracing for a rougher ride
Karin Clemens asks whether the current market is sustainable
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FeaturesHolding on to what they've got
Insurers are competing fiercely for business. And that has to be good news for buyers, says Guy Malyon
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FeaturesCRO interview
In this month’s StrategicRISK interview, Nathan Skinner probes the risk management strategies of steel giant ArcelorMittal
