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# December 12, 2016: Lloyd's Wants to Play a Game, Asia Agriculture Needs an Upgrade and Oklahoma's Quake Class Actions
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/december-12-2016-lloyds-wants-play-game-asia-agriculture-needs-upgrade-oklahomas-quake-class-actions/
- Published: 2016-12-12T05:25:08.000Z
- Updated: 2016-12-12T05:25:08.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Asia Digs Deep to Upgrade its Agriculture](https://www.ft.com/content/3761b3d4-bfd2-11e6-9bca-2b93a6856354?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [FT (sub may be required)](https://www.ft.com/content/3761b3d4-bfd2-11e6-9bca-2b93a6856354?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Whether by growing crops indoors or other means, Asia needs to boost yields and mitigate extreme weather.

### [NASA Launching 8 Small Satellites Monday to Improve Hurricane Forecasts](http://www.space.com/34985-nasa-cygnss-satellite-constellation-launch-webcast-monday.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Space.com](http://www.space.com/34985-nasa-cygnss-satellite-constellation-launch-webcast-monday.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System mission will use radio signals from the GPS satellites to measure the wind speed near the ground in the tropics.

### [Schools Shut, Thousands Evacuated as Cyclone Bears Down on South India](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cyclone-idUSKBN1410IP?il=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cyclone-idUSKBN1410IP?il=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Cyclone Vardah is moving westwards over the Bay of Bengal and is expected to hit Chennai.

### [Polar Vortex Bringing Frigid Temperatures to Canada, U.S.](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cold-polar-vortex-weather-1.3891555?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [CBC](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cold-polar-vortex-weather-1.3891555?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

U.S. meteorologists have warned that December will deliver round after round of bitter cold to the majority of the United States.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Lloyd’s War Game for ‘New 9/11’](http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/business/lloyds-war-game-for-new-9-11-lzsj0bbj2?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Times (sub may be required) ](http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/business/lloyds-war-game-for-new-9-11-lzsj0bbj2?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Lloyd’s of London is to unveil the results of a war game that simulated a catastrophe on the scale of the 9/11 terror attack.

### [Oklahoma’s Earthquakes Draw Spectrum of Litigation, Including Class-Action Petitions](http://www.tulsaworld.com/earthquakes/oklahoma-s-earthquakes-draw-spectrum-of-litigation-including-class-action/article%5F7a9667d5-e4b3-59a0-9ef1-cb283a51d90f.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Tulsa World](http://www.tulsaworld.com/earthquakes/oklahoma-s-earthquakes-draw-spectrum-of-litigation-including-class-action/article%5F7a9667d5-e4b3-59a0-9ef1-cb283a51d90f.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Three of Oklahoma’s five largest earthquakes have spawned multiple class-action lawsuits, with a national environmental firm saying it’s considering filing at least one more.

### [EU Rivals eye £1.2tn Asset Pot in UK as Brexit Looms](https://www.ft.com/content/8462a73a-bbb1-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d080?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [FT (sub may be required)](https://www.ft.com/content/8462a73a-bbb1-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d080?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Rival fund centres to the UK believe Britain’s status as the European asset management hub for pension and insurance cash is under pressure.

### [Louisiana Citizens Shifts 10K Insurance Policies to Private Companies](http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/12/louisiana%5Fcitizens%5Fshifts%5F10k.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [NOLA](http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/12/louisiana%5Fcitizens%5Fshifts%5F10k.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

With the latest transfer of policies, the insurance department says Citizens will have about 54,500 policies — down from 174,000 in 2008.