Content from Bill Churney

Bill Churney is the Chief Operating Officer at AIR Worldwide, a provider of risk modeling software and consulting services.

Embracing the Future of Catastrophe Modeling

This year, 2017, marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of catastrophe modeling. Back in 1987, after a few quiet decades of natural catastrophes in the United States, the idea of ...

Can We Fix Earthquake Insurance in California?

Twenty years ago, on Jan. 17, 1994, a previously unknown fault ruptured nine miles beneath Northridge in the San Fernando Valley. With a magnitude of 6.7 and an epicenter just 20 miles northwest of ...