21 October 2014Alternative Risk Transfer

Busy cat year offers a silver lining

An extremely active year for European windstorms in 2013 had a silver lining for the re/insurance industry in that it meant valuable data could be collected—something that will substantially improve the industry’s ability to model, price and insure such risks in the future.

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