Covid19

28. February 2020 The 2019/2020 coronavirus outbreak and implications for the ILS market Since the first outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease in China’s Wuhan Province in December 2019, the virus has spread first in China and now worldwide. The disease, now...

Hurricane Dorian – post event

Storm history Hurricane Dorian was the fourth named system of the 2019 season. It formed as a tropical wave in the Atlantic and developed tropical storm characteristics on August 24 about 1300 km east of Barbados. Continuously strengthening, the system passed the...

Hurricane Dorian – update

September 2, 2019 Event Update: Hurricane Dorian In our last report from Friday we mentioned the difficulty for the top hurricane models to precisely forecast Dorian’s future track. This difficulty stemmed from the opposing influences of large-scale weather systems...

Hurricane Dorian – pre landfall

Unfolding Event: Hurricane Dorian Hurricane Dorian is the fourth named system of the 2019 season. It formed as a tropical wave in the Atlantic and developed tropical storm characteristics on August 24. Continuously strengthening, the system passed Puerto Rico on the...

Hurricane Barry

Event Report: Hurricane Barry On July 13, early afternoon, Hurricane Barry made landfall near Intracoastal City, LA, as a low end hurricane with sustained wind speed of 115 km/h. Barry had been upgraded to minimal hurricane status just 3 hours before landfall and...

Ridgecrest California Earthquakes

​Event Report: Ridgecrest California earthquake series During the last few days, a series of moderate to strong earthquakes occurred near Ridgecrest, California, a sparsely populated region in the Mojave Desert, approximately 200 km to the north of Los Angeles. The...