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Updates From RMS on Hurricane Harvey
Tuesday, August 29 Update at 17:30 UTC Mark Powell, vice president – Model Development, RMS HWind Don’t Forget About Potential Tropical…
Our Flood Insurance System is Broken. Here’s How...
Matthew Nielsen, senior director, governmental and regulatory affairs, RMS Daniel Stander, managing director, RMS This blog was first…
The Impact of Insurance on Claiming
The term “observer effect” in physics refers to how the act of making an observation changes the state of the system. To measure the pressure…
What If The Oroville Dam Had Collapsed Completely?
RMS modeling reveals the wider risk of U.S. flooding, and a significant protection gap A combination of heavy rainfall and melting snow had…
Friday 13th and the Long-Term Cost of False Alarms
If the prospect of flooding along the East Coast of England earlier this month was hard to forecast, the newspaper headlines the next day were…
India’s Need for Disaster Risk Reduction: Can it...
This was the first time I’d ever heard a Prime Minister praising the benefits of “risk mapping.” Mid-morning on Thursday November 3 in a vast…
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