Sentences with phrase «by catastrophe»

The estimates are wide - ranging - from $ 70 billion in damages projected by catastrophe modeling...

If your home is struck by a catastrophe, such as a fire, tornado, hail storm, burglary or other disaster, your homeowners insurance provides a portion of the funds you need to repair and rebuild.

Will you handle this claim any differently because the damage to my property was caused by a catastrophe?

Weisman makes it clear that we will reach optimal population one way or another — by choice or by catastrophe.

It allows for the structure to serve as a landmark, visible from large distances helping guide people affected by catastrophe straight to the relief center.

The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 tops the list (according to estimates by the catastrophe - insurance provider ICAT), as it would cause $ 180 billion in damage if it were to strike today.

It's doable but doable only by catastrophe and crisis.

The social and moral upheaval caused by the catastrophe of World War I had a major effect on fine art painting.

Scattered across the expanse of the gallery and fastened to walls were life preservers, light fixtures, a baby - grand piano, deck chairs, ripped carpeting (as well as a reproduction of Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa), spilling forth like the contents of the boat that had been tipped over by catastrophe.

Since their arrival on the shores of Washington State in a floating house in the Thirties, the Finches have been dogged by catastrophe, with family member after family member stricken from the book of life in escalatingly demented ways: bathtub drowning, swing accident, unfriendly deer, unexpected locomotive.

Here zombies are but a mere part of the scenery, which makes the characters adapt and show their true nature in order to survive in the world transformed by the catastrophe.

In addition, as an Emergency Response Team, they partner with those organizations to provide relief and comfort to animals that are displaced or endangered by catastrophe.

In addition, as an Emergency Response Team, we partner with those organizations to provide relief and comfort to animals that are displaced or endangered by catastrophe.

Recently, the odds of disaster have been estimated higher by catastrophe modelers, and then by reinsurers and insurers.

I told him that if our civilization was wiped out by catastrophe, we had bigger mountains to climb than Kindle - failure.

Up next was Best Comedy Entertainment Programme, presented by Catastrophe co-stars Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, awarded to Murder in Successville.

After the existing nations of North America are destroyed by catastrophe, a civilization named Panem rises from the ruins.

Still, if Dalí's conversion was prompted by the catastrophe of Hiroshima, could anyone survive the calamity necessary to convert Koons?

«All human existence, hourly threatened by the catastrophe, lives in the interval of grace: «Let it alone this year also, in case it perhaps bears fruit» (Luke 13:8 f).»

Mr Pittaway said there is a «strong likelihood the entire cost of the two events for QBE will be covered by its catastrophe reinsurance programs, leading to a net cost of «just $ 5 million for the events combined».

Kemper believes the underlying combined ratio is useful to investors and is used by management to reveal the trends in Kemper's property and casualty insurance businesses that may be obscured by catastrophe losses and prior - year reserve development.

Be lenient with employees who may have been truly devastated by the catastrophe.

But belief in progress has been badly shaken by the catastrophes of the 20th century.

«We shipped 23 pallets of goods to Puerto Rico yesterday,» said Seguinot, «and we're deeply touched by the outpouring of help from all residents in Rockland for those affected by these catastrophes.»

However, insurers that don't sell earthquake insurance may still be impacted by these catastrophes due to losses from fire following a quake.

«Losses caused by catastrophes, defined as greater than $ 5 million, have grown steadily in the United States, from about $ 100 million annually in the 1950s to $ 6 billion per year in the 1990s.

D. Patterson — Then remember the New World has more than 42 million square kilometers of territory, and even at the bragain basement population density rates, the Old World would still have had tens of millions of people whenever those populations were not already reduced some 90 % and more by catastrophes such as the New World and Old World diseases.

These typically include loss or damage caused by catastrophes, such as accidental fires, hurricanes and tropical storms.

Not exact matches

The combined ratio of 97.5 % improved 2.1 points due to higher net favorable prior year reserve development (1.7 points) and a benefit (0.8 points) from catastrophe losses, partially offset by a higher underlying combined ratio (0.4 points).

It wouldn't cause catastrophe, but by lowering revenues or widening the already yawning deficits, it would train the spotlight on the potentially disastrous outlook.

Catastrophes can be caused by various natural events, including, among others, hurricanes, tornadoes and other windstorms, earthquakes, hail, wildfires, severe winter weather, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other naturally occurring events, such as solar flares.

The combined ratio of 95.5 % decreased 0.5 points due to higher net favorable prior year reserve development (1.0 point), as well as a benefit (0.2 points) from catastrophes, partially offset by a higher underlying combined ratio (0.7 points).

The combined ratio of 97.5 % increased 1.1 points due to a higher underlying combined ratio (1.1 points) and higher catastrophe losses (0.1 points), partially offset by higher net favorable prior year reserve development (0.1 points).

In the opinion of the Company's management, this measure is meaningful to users of the financial statements to understand the Company's periodic earnings and the variability of earnings caused by the unpredictable nature (i.e., the timing and amount) of catastrophes and loss reserve development.

A catastrophe is a severe loss designated a catastrophe by internationally recognized organizations that track and report on insured losses resulting from catastrophic events, such as Property Claim Services (PCS) for events in the United States and Canada.

Obviously, it's best to forestall a PR catastrophe by preventing situations that might cause them in the first place.

But that long history of data on past catastrophes does not exist in the cyber insurance policy world, says Stephen Boyer, the CTO and co-founder of risk - rating company BitSight, a company that assesses company risk for cyber policies written by AIG, Travelers, and others.

Decades ago, Congress made a terrible mistake by listening to Trump as he described the «catastrophe» of 1986.

Some users have responded by saying they would delete their accounts, a potential business catastrophe for Facebook, while government regulators and lawmakers promised to investigate and possibly toughen privacy laws.

Canadians somewhat protected by financial catastrophe thanks to banking regulations, but this time there will be nowhere to hide.

Canadians were somewhat insulated from the financial catastrophe by our more - regulated banking climate but this time around there will be nowhere to hide.

If we consider how increasingly weaponized ad targeting has become, especially since this past summer when Google and Facebook consolidated our browsing histories into their user IDs, and we think about how anybody in the world could target anyone else in the United States with surgical precision by their susceptibilities and propensities, maybe this election was similar to a 9/11 moment, but non-violent and invisible, where we realize that our commercial infrastructure was used against us, and we don't realize it until after the catastrophe?

The most directly comparable GAAP financial measure is the combined ratio, which is computed by adding total incurred losses and LAE, including the impact of catastrophe losses and loss and LAE reserve development from prior years, with the insurance expense ratio.

Oct 30 (Reuters)- Hurricane Sandy appears to have easily caused more losses than last year's Hurricane Irene, but final totals will be hard to come by for some time because of the scale of the disaster, catastrophe forecasting companies said on Tuesday.

Though an autumn rate hike by the Fed is unlikely to be a catastrophe for U.S. stocks, it would mean that the safety blanket of ultra-accommodative monetary policy starts to be removed.

Higher costs from the lawsuits this year would be reflected in rates for reinsurance — which is insurance that insurance companies must buy to ensure they can pay claims after a catastrophe — by June 1 of next year, he said.

For scare value, the 2014 Ebola epidemic looms largest in recent memory; while it ended by killing «only» 11,310 people in West Africa, it looked for a time as if it might become a global catastrophe.

It makes much more sense to prepare for a number of potential catastrophes by building a robust emergency fund and retirement nest egg.

(Reuters)- MetLife Inc reported an 8 percent rise in adjusted first - quarter profit on Wednesday, boosted by U.S. tax reforms, as well as volume growth in Asia and better results in auto and catastrophe businesses.

The embassy move is deeply opposed by the Palestinians, who on May 15 will mark the anniversary of what they term the «nabka,» or catastrophe, when they fled or were driven from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war.