February 16, 2016: Catastrophe Model as Hedge Fund, Living Less In Europe and AIG Cuts Out Dealmaker
Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today
Breaking the Strongest Link Triggered Big Baja Earthquake
Phys.org
A spate of major earthquakes on small faults could overturn traditional views about how earthquakes start.
Builders Finding Ways to Make Homes Stand Up to Mother Nature’s Fiercest Outbursts
Houston Chronicle
A movement in the home-building industry to adapt to risks of climate change is gaining momentum.
A New Earthquake-Sensing App Just Hit the Google Play Store
The Verge
Your phone can be part of a distributed seismograph
Where Do People Live Longer and Shorter Lives?
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (sub may be required)
An ecological study of old-age survival across 4404 small areas from 18 European countries.
Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today
Bill Miller’s a Hedge-Fund Guy Now With a Funky Model to Try Out
Bloomberg
Bill Miller is starting a hedge fund that will make bets based in part on a computer model designed to predict natural disasters.
Only Two Applicants Clear Insurance Commissioner Pre-Screening
Florida Politics
Kirk Schmidt, president and CFO of Cornerstone National and Jeffrey Bragg, head of its Terrorism Risk Insurance Program, answered “yes” to the state’s two pre-screening qualifying questions as of Monday.
Can Health Care Providers Afford to Be Ready for Disaster?
New York Times
Industry experts are awaiting release of a federal rule that would make emergency preparedness a condition for a wide range of health care institutions to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
AIG Dealmaker Schreiber Exits With Maag as Insurer Shrinks
Bloomberg
Schreiber, who shepherded multibillion-dollar deals that expanded the company and then shrank it after the 2008 credit crisis, is departing as the insurer overhauls management.