Officials reportedly prefer a parametric insurance model because it allows for quick payouts. Under traditional insurance models, it can take years to assess damage and determine the proper payout for ...

Parametric wildfire insurance disrupts the traditional homeowners insurance system in a variety of ways. What consumers must know.

The government of Jamaica has raised a hurricane watch for what is currently tropical storm Melissa and with the National Hurricane Center warning that ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NormanMax Insurance Holdings, Inc., the US based parametric (re)insurance group, has received ‘approval in principle’ from Lloyd’s to launch a syndicate in 2024 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the analysis of semi-competing risks data interest lies in estimation and inference with respect to a so-called non-terminal event, the ...

In the past thirty years, more than 100 censuses gathered fertility data through questions on women’s date of last birth. The standard “births last year” (BLY) approach for such data truncates timing ...