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# March 5, 2015: Scor Will Sit It Out and Modeling the Zombie Apocalypse (Insert Zombie ILS Joke Here)
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/march-5-2015-scor-will-sit-it-out-and-modeling-the-zombie-apocalypse-insert-zombie-ils-joke-here/
- Published: 2015-03-05T09:25:06.000Z
- Updated: 2015-03-05T09:25:06.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Modelling The Zombie Apocalypse: Head for the Hills](http://news.yahoo.com/modelling-zombie-apocalypse-head-hills-232142299.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [AFP ](http://news.yahoo.com/modelling-zombie-apocalypse-head-hills-232142299.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Cities would fall quickly, suggests the “large-scale exact stochastic dynamical simulation of a zombie outbreak” from Cornell University in New York state.

### [El Nino Finally Here; but This 1 Is Weak, Weird and Late](http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/el-nino-finally-weak-weird-late-29407248?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [AP](http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/el-nino-finally-weak-weird-late-29407248?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A long anticipated El Nino has finally arrived. But for drought-struck California, it’s too little, too late, meteorologists say.

### [Google’s New Headquarters and the Threat of Sea-Level Rise](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/flooding-google-googles-n%5Fb%5F6804300.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/flooding-google-googles-n%5Fb%5F6804300.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Their property at the south end of San Francisco Bay is extremely vulnerable to projected sea-level rise.

### [UNM Researchers Take to the Skies to Assess Infrastructure Damage](http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-researchers-take-to-the-skies-to-assess-infrastructure-damage?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [University of New Mexico](http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-researchers-take-to-the-skies-to-assess-infrastructure-damage?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Natural disasters, new technology provides project backdrop.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [French Reinsurer SCOR Rules Out Acquisitions](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/05/scor-ma-idUSL5N0W71K220150305?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/05/scor-ma-idUSL5N0W71K220150305?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The CEO says SCOR already has a critical mass.

### [‘Extraordinary Denial Rate’ of 9 in 10 Earthquake Claims Rattles Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak](http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepage1/extraordinary-denial-rate-of-in-earthquake-claims-rattles-oklahoma-insurance/article%5F582ec337-9ba6-570e-9118-e85c4e9b4066.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Tulsa World (sub may be required)](http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepage1/extraordinary-denial-rate-of-in-earthquake-claims-rattles-oklahoma-insurance/article%5F582ec337-9ba6-570e-9118-e85c4e9b4066.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Doak warned against basing earthquake claim denials on assertions that the quakes were man-made.

### [Barriers To Entry: Insurance Firms Investing In Hedge Funds](http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/03/insurance-firms-hedge-funds/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [ValueWalk](http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/03/insurance-firms-hedge-funds/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

J.P. Morgan discusses the barriers to insurance firms investing with hedge funds.

### [Fighting Crop Insurance Cronyism](http://www.theamericanconservative.com/olmstead/fighting-crop-insurance-cronyism/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [American Conservative](http://www.theamericanconservative.com/olmstead/fighting-crop-insurance-cronyism/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The farm bill’s crop insurance measures inordinately help large industrial farms stay alive.