Oooh, this new film looks like a must-see for reinsurers everywhere, but more especially piquant for those who live or work in London. A raging storm builds high seas which gather and surge over the Thames barrier, drowning London. Politicos despair, people drown, and plucky (and doubtless gorgeous, pouting) scientists must scamper about to save the [...]
From the monthly archives:
July 2007
I’ve just skim-read the judgment in Equitas v. Horace Holman [2007] EWHC 903. It runs to 108 paragraphs and is the culmination of proceedings that lasted 5 years. The finding? I conclude that Equitas’ money claim succeeds in the sums of US$ 34,614.01 and £3,018.57. I shall hear further submissions if Equitas [...]
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Interesting article from the Long Now foundation (disclosure: I’m a charter member) about the the increase in range of things that can be bet on as risk measurement becomes more precise. They refer back to the Allianz-led cat bond on floods hitting London as a prime (and new) example of such risks and then [...]
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How often one hears of things a little too late. I should like to have gone to Complex07, the large Aus/East Asian conference on complex systems. This was the bit that caught my eye in the Sydney Morning Herald review: Alexander Wearing from the school of behavioural science at the University of Melbourne has [...]
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There’s an interesting account in a recent Economist (and also on their website (subscription)) about a recent cyber-warfare attack on Estonia’s infrastructure. This came amidst their recent spat with Russia over the re-siting of a statue commemorating the Glorious Motherland’s achievements in Estonia during the Great Patriotic War (aka WW2), which I read somewhere [...]
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This is apparently true: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION Case No. 6:05-cv-1430-Orl-31JGG AVISTA MANAGEMENT, INC., d/b/a Avista Plex, Inc., Plaintiff, -vs- WAUSAU UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant. ORDER This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff’s Motion to designate location of a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition (Doc. 105). Upon consideration of the Motion – the latest in a series of Gordian knots that the parties have [...]
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