How the US Can Improve Workplace Injury and Illness Data
Thirteen people die every day in the United States as a direct result of their work. An industrial robot malfunctions, construction scaffolding collapses, a crucial relief valve sticks and workers die. Scores more die every day from diseases and other medical...Researchers Show How Temporal Clustering Can Improve Flood Modeling
While severe weather events like Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Harvey dominate the news for weather-related disasters, the majority of insurance claims for weather-related events come from much more mundane, small-scale weather phenomena. Insurance companies have...FEMA’s Models Drastically Underestimate Flood Risk, Study Says
The development of a newer, higher-resolution maps of the continental United States has a revealed a problem, according to researchers. At least 43 million people in the US may be affected by a 100-year flood, three times more than federal estimates currently predict,...Could AI-Driven Insurance Reduce Gun Violence?
American has debated gun control for decades and it is now further away from a political solution than ever before. With mass shootings averaging one a week so far this 2018, gun control proponents have been loud and vocal. Gun advocates cling to their interpretation...Analytics Firm Verisk Launches New Benchmarking, Risk-Scoring Platform for Insurers
Data analytics firm Verisk has launched a benchmarking and risk-scoring platform called EPIX (Energy & Power Intelligence Exchange) to better equip underwriters with the proper tools, information, and actionable insights that will enable them to make more...Listen to Our Civic Development Podcast!
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