A Flood Program That Doesn’t Cover Houston? Really?

Posted by Ivan Maddox on Sep 6, 2017 7:50:00 AM

Inevitably, let’s check out Houston and Harvey. It’s not the first time we have looked at Houston (or the second, third, or fourth), because Harris County is the flooding capital of the Americas. Forget about 500 year flood zones – Houston has 6 month flood zones.

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Topics: Floods, Flood Insurance, Flood Risk, FEMA, Houston

Building for Flood Resiliency, Or Not

Posted by Ivan Maddox on Aug 22, 2017 12:00:00 PM

Last week, the President introduced an initiative to streamline the regulatory process around federal infrastructure construction projects (read about it here, or here). As introductions go, it was not exactly textbook, so maybe “released” is a better term than “introduced”.

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Topics: Flood Insurance, Flood Risk, NFIP

Geocoding – Because You Have To

Posted by Ivan Maddox on Aug 8, 2017 1:03:26 PM

As risk assessments get better and better, the limiting factor on how well they work is almost always geocoding. A long time ago, we took a look at geocoding for underwriting, which discussed how important it is. Well, everything in early 2015 that was true and valid remains true and valid.

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Topics: Insurance Underwriting, Effective Underwriting

What would an Underwriter Say If…?

Posted by Ivan Maddox on Aug 1, 2017 10:24:17 AM

What would an underwriter say if they heard that a monumental amount of unwritten premium was about to become available in a few months? This is something property underwriters are contemplating as the NFIP re-authorization approaches. But is that the right question?

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Topics: Insurance Underwriting, Underwriting Profit, Effective Underwriting

Top 3 Risks of Hazard Posts – Dog Days Edition

Posted by Ivan Maddox on Jul 24, 2017 2:14:39 PM

Here we are in the dog days of summer, and because we can’t just write about wildfires every week it’s time for the Top 3 posts from Q2.

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Topics: Natural Hazard Risk, Flood Insurance, Flood Risk, Flood News

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