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November 21, 2013
About 4,000 earthquakes occur annually in Canada, although most are too small to be felt. The AIR Earthquake Model for Canada will provide companies with the most advanced tool for assessing potential losses from ground shaking, fire following earthquake, tsunami, liquefaction, and landslide for the Canadian market and will be a significant tool for compliance with OSFI Guideline B-9.
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September 25, 2013
This brochure provides an introduction to the AIR Coastal Flood Model for Great Britain. By considering multiple combinations of storms, tide levels, and sea defenses, this comprehensive model allows companies to assess and manage their risk from coastal flooding caused by storm surge.
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July 25, 2013
This brochure provides an introduction to the AIR Inland Flood Model for Great Britain. Covering both on- and off-floodplain risk and leveraging AIR’s experience with numerical weather prediction, this innovative model meets the risk management needs of companies pricing and underwriting this complex peril.
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June 21, 2013
This brochure provides an overview of the AIR Tropical Cyclone Model for Hawaii, which captures the risk from tropical cyclone winds and implements a novel method for modeling simulated storm tracks. In addition, AIR engineers have developed wind damage functions for 71 different construction classes—including residential structures unique to Hawaii—that reflect regional construction practices, evolution of building codes, and historical tropical cyclone experience. The model also includes four Extreme Disaster Scenarios (EDS) to help companies prepare for large loss potential.
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May 24, 2013
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, AIR released The Coastline at Risk: Estimated Insured Value of Coastal Properties. That report was updated in 2008; comparing its results to the 2005 report showed that the insured value of properties in coastal areas of the United States had grown at a compound annual rate of about 7%. This report represents a further update in 2013 and shows that, in the last five years, growth in insured values in coastal regions fell from 7% to just under 4% per annum.
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April 26, 2013
AIR previously introduced a ratemaking method that blends historical and modeled severe thunderstorm losses with non-cat losses to produce a composite estimate of total loss cost. This paper presents a framework to quantify the components of uncertainty in this approach.
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April 18, 2013
This document describes the key advantages of the AIR Tropical Cyclone Model for India, which is designed to meet the unique risk management needs of companies exposed to wind, precipitation-induced flood, and storm surge resulting from Indian tropical cyclones.
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April 12, 2013
This document describes the key advantages of the AIR U.S. Winter Storm Model, which is designed to meet the unique risk management needs of companies exposed to wind, precipitation, and temperature-induced damage resulting from U.S. winter storms.
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April 12, 2013
This document describes the key advantages of the AIR Tropical Cyclone Model for Central America, which is designed to meet the unique risk management needs of companies exposed to wind and precipitation-induced flood resulting from Central America tropical cyclones.
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January 31, 2013
For the 2013 season, policy conditions for the China MPCI program have changed in several provinces. This will have an impact on the premium collected and on the risks that are being written in certain provinces. This paper describes the nature of those changes and the premium adjustment factors that AIR has developed to help companies analyze their 2013 China MPCI submissions using the AIR MPCI model for China.
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