Sentences with phrase «related catastrophe»

This coverage gives you the financial resources you need to make property repairs after a serious flood or fire or a weather - related catastrophe.

A. 2 of Miller, Muir - Wood and Boissonnade, An exploration of trends in normalized weather - related catastrophe losses.

One such scenario depends on climate - related catastrophe.»

Together, they'll drink, maim, shoot, and pun through Vaughn's latest tech - related catastrophe.

Intact Financial Corp. (TSX: IFC) reported it paid out about $ 300 million to customers in Alberta due to storms and the floods in 2013, and analysts have speculated insurance costs are likely to rise as weather - related catastrophes occur more frequently.

As the corps considers public comment on the new permit, Pew is spotlighting living shorelines across the country, said Laura Lightbody, program director for the foundation's efforts aimed at reducing the impact of weather - related catastrophes, such as floods and hurricanes, on the U.S. economy, communities and environment.

The agency, administration officials have suggested, could play a key role in helping communities anticipate and prepare for climate - related catastrophes and long - term changes.

Intact reported it paid out about $ 300 million to customers in Alberta due to storms and the floods in 2013, and analysts have speculated insurance costs are likely to rise as weather - related catastrophes occur more frequently.

Some of my clients think I'm overplaying the importance of choosing the right type of bone for their dog, but part of the reason I'm so detailed and thorough is to avoid fractures and other chew bone - related catastrophes.

More than that, 20 + years of assorted CAGW related catastrophes have been projected — and have universally failed to materialize.

Indur Goklany, a US - based expert on weather - related catastrophes, charted global deaths through the 20th century from «extreme» weather events.

[I] t would seem that the only plausible explanation for the rise in weather - related catastrophes is climate change.

Kansas is one of the most dangerous states for natural disasters, with a high number of weather - related catastrophes each year.

As weather related catastrophes continue, Peace Hills is not the first company to institute changes and will not be the last.

Ohio is a hub for natural disasters and weather - related catastrophes.

There are a number of different ways that Kentucky residents can experience property damage to their homes including weather - related catastrophes, accidents (such as with a cooking fire) and property crime.

Samsung says it has a new eight - point battery check system in place to prevent future Note 7 battery - related catastrophes and I buy that claim.

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the Company's share repurchase plans depend on a variety of factors, including the Company's financial position, earnings, share price, catastrophe losses, maintaining capital levels commensurate with the Company's desired ratings from independent rating agencies, funding of the Company's qualified pension plan, capital requirements of the Company's operating subsidiaries, legal requirements, regulatory constraints, other investment opportunities (including mergers and acquisitions and related financings), market conditions and other factors.

About a third of the increase was related to the cost of our aggregate catastrophe program which will help reduce the volatility of our earnings.

So far, the only catastrophe related to a B.C. pipeline is Horgan's handling of the Trans Mountain expansion.

But, catastrophes do happen and when they are related to health, nursing home expenses can be a significant driver of cost.

Our Sun is more active than ever recorded and every major catastrophe on this planet in the past couple of years can be directly related to events in our solar system.

There are risks related to ecological catastrophes (the desertification, the depletion of the Ozone layer, the deforestation, the Greenhouse effect).

«It is still too early to evaluate the current flood catastrophe and its related losses, especially because the floodwaters have yet to drain away,» said Anette Lamberts, Munich Re's head of media relations.

In a previous paper written in 2014, Howarth painted methane emissions from oil and gas production in dire terms, saying that ignoring fracking - related methane emissions would lead to a climate change tipping point and «global catastrophe» from which there is no return.

The story is about a worldwide catastrophe, but also directly relates to them.

Set against the backdrop of the 2004 tsunami that devastated large portions of coastal southern Asia, The Impossible relates the ordeal of a family of Spanish survivors (changed in the movie to British tourists to increase the international appeal) as they struggle to be reunited in the catastrophe's aftermath.

Aims to provide capital growth and income by investing in securities that are related to insurance risks (known as insurance - linked securities), mainly in catastrophe or «cat» bonds.»

Bottom line: It may not be fair (especially if you have had an unexpected financial, medical or other catastrophe), but your credit score is increasingly becoming associated with decisions that may not strictly relate to your credit history.

«We define pre-tax catastrophe losses in excess of $ 100 million from a single event or series of related events as significant.

Trauma to the eye (such as an infected scratch or puncture to the eye, hitting the eye on something sharp), tumors of the eye, glaucoma (increased pressure inside the eye), and Herpes - related ulcers on the eye (in cats) can be catastrophes to the eye.

He was committed to documenting the catastrophe, a way of showing the world the effects in hope of a better future made by better decisions, so that dozens don't die and thousands aren't wrecked with fallout - related disease.

These are aspects that are visible in her exploration of well - established photographic genres such as film stills, fashion photography or classic portraits, as well as in series where she explores a more abject material related to themes like fairytales, catastrophes, pornography, war and surrealism.

Galhotra has been particularly sensitive to the impact of globalisation and growth on the natural environment, and her current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York relates to the environmental catastrophes that have beset the Yamuna River — the longest tributary of the Ganges.

She has created nine songs to tell the story of a hapless fictional character called Doug - each song relating to a different accident or catastrophe in his life.

In the Intervals installation for the Aye Simon Reading Room, a small library and study space located on Rotunda Level 2, visitors will encounter a scene of apparent catastrophe that relates to Gander's ongoing exploration of the schism between the Dutch artists Piet Mondrian (1872 — 1944) and Theo van Doesburg (1883 — 1931).

Further to the comments by Heiko (# 6) on the economics of [climate change - related] environmental catastrophes, at least from an economist's perspective, but opposite my perspective on my own standard of living:

This actually relates back to the methane issue: We can't be sure at what point we would trigger such a catastrophe, so it is best to steer way clear of such a possibility.

Certainly most everyone would probably agree that a mass extinction would be a global catastrophe, but what % increase in weather / climate related disasters would constitute a global catastrophe?

The article says they are planning to seek formal approval from Pope Benedict XVI to update the 19th - century vow, which still focuses on avoiding catastrophes related to too much ice, to call for the glacier's return.

My guess is that it will take a major major disaster / calamity / catastrophe of untold proportions related to climate change to wake nations up.

In the long term, global warming will lead to a further increase in weather - related natural catastrophes, the financial impact of which will have to be borne by insurers and the public.

Of the 58 natural catastrophes with $ 1 billion or more of insured losses recorded through the end of 2006, 3 were earthquakes, including the devastating 2004 earthquake - related Asian tsunami; the other 55 were weather - related — storms, floods, hurricanes, or wildfires.

After 25 years of close to a trillion dollars of treasure being expended, thousands of avoidable deaths from hypothermia related health problems amongst the elderly, the destruction of entire industries and large parts of some national economies, science, very expensive science at that has been sent down an innumerable number of dead end paths and rabbit holes in pursuit of the unpredictable non existent global warming and it's totally failed predictions of catastrophes always still to come but which never do.

It combines Swiss Re's expertise in natural catastrophe modelling with drought - related data compiled by the Zurich - based Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science,» said the bulletin.

The economic costs of natural disasters related to global warming are adding up; some of the largest effects of these catastrophes can be felt in the United States, where politics and policies are not keeping pace with the physical realities of climate change.

For instance, globally there has been a more than threefold increase in loss - related floods since 1980 and more than double the number of windstorm natural catastrophes, with particularly heavy losses as a result of Atlantic hurricanes.

Munich Re's natural catastrophe database, the most comprehensive of its kind in the world, shows a marked increase in the number of weather - related events.

Almost invariably, the accounts Nixon relates describe foreign corporations being drawn into countries in the global south in search of natural resources, then leaving behind catastrophe and ruin.

Approximately 75 % of the Solvency Capital Requirement will relate to the risks underwritten, and approximately 80 % of that, will be to take into account the catastrophe component.