August 20, 2014 20:19
by J. Wylie Donald
A recent article in August’s Best’s Review, The Rise of the Super Models, by Kate Smith (not Kate Upton, sorry), caught our eye. A lot is going on in the world of computer catastrophe modeling. First, demand by insurers and reinsurers is up and modeling firms are “broadening the scope of risks and regions that they model, with RMS, AIR Worldwide and CoreLogic EQECAT all set to release new models this year.” Among other things, all of the top 3 modeling firms are releasing U.S. inland flood models. This blog has been hard on FEMA and the Corps of ...