Mold is a problematic, quiet environmental risk that can often go unnoticed until it’s too late. The recent increase in natural disasters, including hurricanes and historic flooding across the US, has fueled rising concern among insureds with respect to mold coverage. However, water damage from a natural disaster leading to mold is not the only concern, or even the most likely concern insureds should be focused on. A far more likely scenario is a broken pipe that goes unnoticed or an HVAC malfunction that goes undetected. Given the right conditions mold can grow rapidly. High humidity and heat in the summer along with any of the perils aforementioned can lead to a situation that requires professional removal and remediation. Unexpected remediation of mold can be a costly and unwelcome expense for any commercial or institutional entity.
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09.24.2019
As long as businesses continue to collect and process private consumer information, the threat of sensitive data compromise will exist. In the absence of comprehensive federal data breach legislation, individual states are filling that void and attempting to reshape data breach and privacy laws to increase protection of consumer data.
09.17.2019
Ironshore’s recent executive seminars for broker partners in California and Washington was an overview of Natural Catastrophes - Hurricanes, Earthquakes and Wildfires and the methodology used to measure, track and in some cases, predict events. Our previous post focused on hurricanes. This post is an introduction to earthquake seismology with application to hazard and risk assessment featuring the seismic expertise of Dr. Carl Ebeling, Senior Development Engineer at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, at UC-San Diego.
09.03.2019
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), once used in everything from dental floss to microwave popcorn bags, are now being recognized as threatening toxic chemicals that pose health risks to populations across the country. PFAS are man-made fluorinated chemical compounds found in a vast array of commercial and consumer products. PFAS contaminants have been found in drinking water nationwide, exposing virtually everyone to some level of exposure. The U.S. government has reported that 98% of the population has detectable levels of PFAS in their blood. Of major concern, a result of one of the chemical properties of PFAS is that they are nearly impervious to biological or chemical degradation and therefore, unless treated, will remain in the soil and groundwater indefinitely, which has led to their nickname “forever chemical”.
08.28.2019
Ironshore’s recent executive seminars for broker partners in California and Washington was an overview of the methodology and history of the longest running hurricane seasonal forecast as well as the latest predictions for 2019. Our guest speaker, Dr. Phil Klotzbach, is a Research Scientist at the Tropical Meteorology Project in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. Dr. Klotzbach began as co-author on the Atlantic basin hurricane forecasts with Dr. William (Bill) Gray who began issuing these forecasts in 1984. Dr. Klotzbach became first author on the seasonal hurricane forecasts in 2006. He also developed the two- week forecasts currently being issued during the peak months of the hurricane season between August-October. Ironshore has been a sponsor of the Atlantic basin hurricane forecasts since 2014.
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