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# December 9, 2016: Insurers Drink Lemonade, the U.S. Southeast Will Burn and the CFTC Switches Its Derivatives Playbook
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/december-9-2016-insurers-drink-lemonade-u-s-southeast-will-burn-cftc-switches-derivatives-playbook/
- Published: 2016-12-09T07:12:56.000Z
- Updated: 2016-12-09T07:12:56.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Inside the Research Center that Demolishes Homes to Make Them Safer](http://www.curbed.com/2016/12/8/13891500/home-insurance-building-industry-ibhs-testing-center?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Curbed](http://www.curbed.com/2016/12/8/13891500/home-insurance-building-industry-ibhs-testing-center?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The 90-acre Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety testing center in Chester County, South Carolina, is where the organization destroys homes in an effort to create better, safer building codes.

### [The Southeast Is Becoming A Wildfire Hotspot](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-southeast-is-becoming-a-wildfire-hotspot/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [FiveThirtyEight](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-southeast-is-becoming-a-wildfire-hotspot/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Several climatologists and scientists said long-term climate models predict that the Southeast will continue to experience rising temperatures.

### [Tsunami Warning Cancelled after South Pacific Earthquake](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/08/earthquake-triggers-south-pacific-tsunami-warning?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/08/earthquake-triggers-south-pacific-tsunami-warning?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Quake of 7.7 magnitude had put residents on alert in Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and other island countries.

### [Reproducing Results](http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2016/december/science-reproducing-results/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [University of Delaware](http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2016/december/science-reproducing-results/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A new paper emphasizes need to share and cite data, code, workflow across fields of research.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [An Epic Legal Battle with Big Implications for Litigation Funding](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21711334-quarter-century-old-insurance-claim-approaches-legal-milestone-epic-legal?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Economist ](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21711334-quarter-century-old-insurance-claim-approaches-legal-milestone-epic-legal?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A quarter-century-old insurance claim approaches a legal milestone.

### [U.S. Derivatives Regulator to Move on From Dodd-Frank Under Trump](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cftc-idUSKBN13X2QX?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cftc-idUSKBN13X2QX?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The CFTC will focus on cyber threats, liquidity risk, market concentration and de-globalization.

### [Home Insurance, but With a Philanthropic Twist](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-08/home-insurance-but-with-a-philanthropic-twist?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-08/home-insurance-but-with-a-philanthropic-twist?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Lemonade is counting on a sleek app and a flat 20 percent cut of premiums to win over those turned off by traditional insurance.

### [We Must Listen to the Needs of Our Financial Services Sector](http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/we-need-to-listen-to-the-needs-of-our-financial-services-sector-mffhkkb0v?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Times (sub may be required)](http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/we-need-to-listen-to-the-needs-of-our-financial-services-sector-mffhkkb0v?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A UK parliament member pleads for leaders to listen to the Brexit worries of reinsurers.