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NEWARK, CA – June 24, 2019 – Today, RMS®, a leading global risk modeling and analytics firm, announced that its Version 18.1 RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models were approved by the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology (FCHLPM) on June 13, 2019, for use in residential rate filings with the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. The certification applies to Version 18.1 hurricane models on both RiskLink 18.1 and the forthcoming Risk Modeler 2.1 application on Risk Intelligence (RI). This certification will be valid until November 1, 2021.

Following this approval, RMS becomes the first risk modeling and analytics firm to have its hurricane models approved by the FCHLPM on a software and cloud platform simultaneously.

“Certification by the Florida Commission is a strong indicator of the integrity of our hurricane model, its quality, and the science, data, and engineering underpinning it,” said Jeff Waters, Senior Product Manager, RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models, “The recent updates to Version 18.1 reflect enhancements to each model component to improve the differentiation and quantification of hurricane risk throughout the Atlantic Basin.”

On April 29, 2019, RMS announced the release of its updated North Atlantic Hurricane Models in Version 18.1. Leveraging new hurricane science, data, and technology, the latest view of the hurricane risk landscape within this model incorporates the following enhancements:

  • Long-term event rate set updated to comply with the May 2017 vintage of the National Hurricane Center’s Hurricane Database (HURDAT2) data
  • New medium-term rate forecast for 2019-2023 informed by data-driven and methodological enhancements, including the latest historical Atlantic Basin hurricane data through the end of the 2018 season
  • New historical event reconstructions from recent hurricane seasons
  • Vulnerability updates to select primary and secondary characteristics, as well as specialty lines to reflect new RMS building research, hurricane claims data, and Institute of Business and Home Safety (IBHS) research

Cihan Biyikoglu, Executive Vice President of Product at RMS said, “RMS is committed to offering its risk solutions in multiple distribution formats to meet the evolving business needs of the (re)insurance market. Having Version 18.1 North Atlantic Hurricane Models available on both RiskLink and Risk Intelligence (RI) gives clients choice on how they access and make use of this critical market currency to inform their view of hurricane risk.”

For additional details on the RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models click here.

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Moody’s RMS shapes the world’s view of risk for insurers, reinsurers, financial services organizations, and the public sector, with Moody’s RMS models underlying the nearly $2 trillion USD Property & Casualty industry. Moody’s RMS empowers organizations to evaluate and manage global risk from natural and man-made catastrophes, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, climate change, cyber, and pandemics.

Moody’s RMS helped pioneer the catastrophe risk industry, and continues to lead in innovation, unmatched science, technology, and 300+ catastrophe risk models. Organizations can address the risks of tomorrow with the Intelligent Risk Platform™, the only open cloud with collaborative applications and unified analytics that can power risk management excellence.

Further supporting the industry’s transition to modern risk management, in 2020, Moody’s RMS spearheaded the Risk Data Open Standard (RDOS), a modern, open-standard data schema designed to be an extensible and flexible asset within modeling/analysis systems.

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