Insurance Disruption? Only if… Part 1

Posted by Ivan P. Maddox on Jan 10, 2018 1:32:31 PM

insurance challenges aheadHappy New Year! Let’s start 2018 with a favorite topic: insurance disruption. The Risks of Hazard has explored this in the past, again and again. Let’s see what’s new in 2018.

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Topics: Property Insurance, Insurance Technology, Innovation in Insurance

Top 10 Blogs of 2017

Posted by Devin Ward on Dec 27, 2017 3:33:19 PM

The holidays, less New Year's, are now behind us. We at the Risks of Hazard hope your holidays were filled with joy and warm receptions from family, friends, acquaintances, or at least an A/C unit. With 2018 around the corner, we want to say thanks for reading and take a look at our most popular blogs from the past year.

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Topics: Underwriting Profit, NFIP, Houston

Top 3 Blogs of Q4 2017

Posted by Ivan Maddox on Dec 19, 2017 4:11:48 PM

The Risks of Hazard is cruising into the holiday season like all blogs, by piggy-backing on old work. And there is no better way to recycle blogs than to do Top 3 lists! Without any ado at all, here are the top 3 blogs from the last three months.

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Topics: Flood Insurance, Insurance Protection Gap, NFIP

Harvey - A Look at Depth and BFE

Posted by Ivan Maddox on Dec 13, 2017 9:07:03 AM

Last week, we wrote about that NYT article that was the buzz of the flood community. As might have been expected, it created a little buzz. Below the line, an interesting conversation took place about flooding depths, BFEs, and how they relate to each other. There are a few thoughts in that commentary that are worth a deeper look this week. But first, a quick thank you to Christopher and Scott for their comments!

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Topics: Floods, Flood Modeling, FEMA

“Flooding was not even a possibility,” Said the Builder in Houston

Posted by Ivan Maddox on Dec 5, 2017 4:15:03 PM

The New York Times continued the national coverage of flood insurance (see the WSJ last week) on the weekend with a long-form piece on The Woodlands. Their writers (John Schwartz, James Glanz, and Andrew Lehren) went deep on a family who bought their home in The Woodlands in 2011, with the reassurance from the builder that the house was definitely out of the “flood zone”.

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Topics: Flood Modeling, Flood Risk, Houston

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