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Man-made & Liability Risks

The Willis Research Network, combines with Willis Group's wider expertise in response to a wide range of risks beyond natural hazards. The coverage is extensive, but ultimately these classes of risk are integrated into similar types of analytical platforms, financial modelling tools and decision support systems employed to evaluate and manage natural catastrophe risks.

Political Risk, Terrorism and Security.

Willis and WRN partners are leaders in assessing security risks to commerce and operations at global and local scales, and developing financial and operational resilience and response systems. Willis employs its advanced mapping systems to assess and monitor exposed assets and personnel to a wide range of security threats.

Legal Liability.

Willis and WRN partners are leaders in the assessment of legal liability and related risks in jurisdictions throughout the world and the development of risk management and insurance related solutions to reduce exposures.

Latest on Man-made & Liability Risks

  • TRIA at Ten Years: The Future of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program

    Date: Sep 11, 2012 | Type: Presentation | Attachment: Download File ›
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    Pillar: Man-made & Liability Risks

    Authors: Erwann Michel-Kerjan
    Fields:

    Summary: A Written Testimony prepared for a hearing of the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity Committee on Financial Services U.S. House of Representatives on “TRIA at Ten Years: The Future of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program.” by Erwann Michel-Kerjan of the Wharton Risk Center

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    Statistical Review of Nuclear Power Accidents

    Date: Sep 08, 2011 | Type: Paper | Attachment: Download File ›
    Journal: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance | Ext. Link: Click Here ›

    Pillar: Man-made & Liability Risks
    Hub: Insurance & Sustainable Business

    Authors: Marius Hofert, Mario V. Wüthrich
    Fields:

    Summary: This paper, motivated by the Fukushima event, asks the question whether nuclear power accidents can be insured.

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    Modelling the hydraulics of the Carlisle 2005 flood event

    Date: Jun 01, 2010 | Type: Paper | Ext. Link: Click Here ›

    Pillar: Man-made & Liability Risks
    Hub: Flood

    Authors: M. S. Horritt, P. D. Bates, T. J. Fewtrell, D. C. Mason, M. D. Wilson
    Fields: Flood - UK Flood Modelling Techniques

    Summary: The performance of a two-dimensional numerical model of flood hydraulics is tested for a major event in Carlisle, UK, in 2005. This event is associated with a unique data set, with global positioning system surveyed wrack lines and flood extent surveyed 3 weeks after the flood.

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About WRN

As economic, social and environmental uncertainties increase, institutions and populations seek greater resilience to support sustainable growth. Science and insurance lay at the heart of understanding, managing and sharing these risks, building more secure futures at local and global scales.

The Willis Research Network (WRN) operates across the full spectrum of risk from natural catastrophe, to legal liability, financial and security issues linked across driving themes: Resilience, Security & Sustainable Growth; Managing Extremes; Insurance & Risk Management and Mastering the Modelled World.

All Members and activities are united by a common aim: improving resilience by integrating first class science into operational and financial decision-making across public and private institutions.

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Fast Facts

  • The WRN was formed in September 2006 to support leading academic research into extreme events, with a specific focus on responding to the challenges faced by businesses, insurers and governments
  • The WRN's membership spans the globe, counting more than 50 world-class universities, scientific research organisations and public policy institutions
  • Collectively, our members have published more than 100 papers in leading scientific journals
  • Nearly all of the WRN's research is freely available to the public and can be downloaded on our website

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