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9/16/2024 - 2 min read

Property Repair Costs Growth Accelerates in Q2 2024

Key factors in property expenses—labor, materials, claims, and trends in the US & Canada. Plus, review claims data trends vs. prior years.

4/6/2023 - 2 min read

Severe thunderstorms and hail: Concentrated events that pack a punch

Severe thunderstorms are a common natural phenomenon in the US, causing more than half of annual reported insured losses since 1985.

8/8/2022 - 3 min read

What’s going on with fire? Taking measure of a growing peril

Verisk works with fire protection, scientific, and insurance community to provide technology to manage and mitigate wildfire risk.

6/13/2022 - 4 min read

Mastering the many aspects of roof condition with multisource data

Homeowners insurers may struggle to capture roof condition, but imagery analytics can help assess risk and opportunities for mitigation.

5/18/2022 - 3 min read

Hail in Southern California: Making sense of hail’s changing geography

Hail is spreading out into new regions of the country that aren’t traditionally exposed to hail risk.

5/17/2022 - 2 min read

Capturing the flavors of roof risk with reliable data

Multiple homeowners insurers sought solutions to challenges around roof risk, and Verisk has created case studies to follow their journeys.

3/28/2022 - 2 min read

Four things insurers need to know about 2021's hailstorms

More than 6.8 million properties were affected by one or more damaging hailstorms, a nearly 10 percent increase from 2020

5/7/2021 - 2 min read

How the hail hazard is affecting property insurance

Confronting hail risk means having an informed strategy and effective tools backed by advanced technology and analytics.

7/9/2020 - 2 min read

Data helps unmask hail risk, a volatile peril with potentially hidden consequences

A new Verisk white paper, U.S. Hail Damage Insights, examines key topics and data for insurers concerning hail, which can cause damage that goes undetected.

3/20/2019 - 3 min read

Wintry chill bites supply chain

Effects from prolonged stretches of sub-freezing temperatures could cause production delays for suppliers across multiple industries.

3/8/2019 - 2 min read

AER and team demonstrate benefits of using machine learning in subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting

A team from Verisk's Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Microsoft Research, and Stanford University published an opinion article in WIREs Climate Change on the benefits of applying machine learning to the practice of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) weather prediction.

2/5/2019 - 2 min read

Disruption of the polar vortex creates winter whiplash

A warming climate is producing warm extremes in all seasons, and in sharp contrast to the historical cold at the end of January, the first full week of February ushered in unseasonably warm weather. Blame it on the splitting of the polar vortex.

6/1/2018 - 1 min read

June 2018 preview: Historical catastrophe activity

We could see a slightly above-average Atlantic Basin 2018 hurricane season, after last year’s major hurricanes in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico.

5/1/2018 - 1 min read

May 2018 Preview: Historical catastrophe activity

Over the past decade, the month of May averaged four catastrophes, according to Verisk's Property Claim Services (PCS).

4/4/2018 - 1 min read

April 2018 preview: Historical catastrophe activity

With parts of the United States still reeling from winter storms in March, Verisk's PCS looks ahead to April. Though overall tornadic activity typically peaks in May and June, April is an active month for violent tornadoes.