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Hurricane Nicole: First Florida East Coast Landf...
It was the turn of Florida’s east coast to receive a landfalling hurricane, as Hurricane Nicole made its U.S. landfall as a Category 1…
The Age of Innocence
Professor Ilan Noy holds a unique ”Chair in the Economics of Disasters” at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has proposed…
Will California be “Puerto Rico” or “New Orleans”?
It is now exactly a quarter of a century, on January 17, 1994, since the last significant U.S. earthquake disaster. A previously unknown blind…
Coastal Flood: Rising Risk in New Orleans and Be...
As we come up on the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a lot of the focus is on New Orleans. But while New Orleans is far from being…
From Arlene to Zeta: Remembering the Record-Brea...
Few in the insurance industry can forget the Atlantic hurricane season of 2005. For many, it is indelibly linked with Hurricane Katrina and…