Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today
New York’s Little Dam Sends Super-Sized Warning of Cyber-Attacks
Bloomberg Technology
The hacking of a 75-year-old dam brought fresh attention to warnings that critical U.S. infrastructure is vulnerable to online assault.
New Study: People from French-Speaking Countries Are More Likely to Become Jihadists
Vox
The countries most likely to produce people who leave to fight in Syria or Iraq tended to be French-speaking, or heavily influenced by French language and culture.
Mapping a Genetic Strategy to Fight the Zika Virus
New York Times
Some of the nation’s leading mosquito researchers are striving to assemble a state-of-the-art DNA map that they say will help them fight the disease with the mosquito’s own genetic code.
Longer-term Weather and Environmental Forecasts Will Provide Enormous Benefit
Phys.org
Weather and environmental forecasts made several weeks to months in advance can someday be as widely used and essential as current predictions of tomorrow’s weather are.
Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today
AIG Cuts CEO Incentive Award 29% After Missing Profit Goals
Bloomberg
Hancock has been reshaping management since taking over in September 2014.
Scott, Atwater Can’t Agree on Insurance Commissioner
Tampa Bay Business Journal
The state has resumed its search for a new insurance commissioner after Gov. Rick Scott and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater could not reach agreement Tuesday.
Global Insured Losses from Disasters Reach USD 37 Billion in 2015
Swiss Re
There were 353 disaster events last year. Of those, 198 were natural catastrophes, which is the highest number in one year.
Florida Offshore Spending Would Hike Homeowner Costs 3.2 Percent
Palm Beach Post
A move to buy reinsurance, if carried out in April, would raise rates 3.2 percent, offsetting about a third of an expected overall 9 percent decrease in CAT Fund rates.
