Description: Some of the uncertainties related to catastrophe models are explored, leading to the suggestion that the actuary is well suited to understand and use these in the context of an ORSA exercise. Part of the essay collection "Risk Metrics for Decision Making and ORSA"

Description: This article discusses catastrophic mortality risk and ways that smaller insurance companies can manage the risk, including traditional catastrophe reinsurance, accidental death carve-outs, and catastrophic claim pools.

Description: This article discusses the use of mortality catastrophe bonds as a risk mitigation tool.

Description: One of the life insurance industry’s residual impacts of the tragic events of September 11, 2001 was some marked changes in the market for catastrophic reinsurance coverages.

Description: Presentation at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session takes a hard look at Lloyd’s of London, examines how it has reached its current state of affairs, the role of Equitas, the impact of corporate capital and the firm's outlook.

Description: One way to reduce a catastrophe’s effects is to buy traditional catastrophe coverage. Another is to participate in a catastrophe pool Special Pooled Risk.

Description: Summary of current state of A&H reinsurance business.

Description: This is an article on avian flu and reinsurance as it relates to smaller insurance companies.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about a number of issues relating to catastrophe exposure, including: 1, Techniques for measuring exposure to catastrophes and the problems of aggregation. 2. How to calculate and monitor losses. 3. The use of futures contracts as a means of spreading the risk.

Description: Forty-one years of catastrophe loss data by state are used in this study to produce a model for rating catastrophe covers for insurers in any region of the Continental United States. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.