Disaster recovery

Regions and PNC are two banks that have expanded the use of their mobile branches in recent years.

Wind and storm surge damage to residential and commercial properties could reach $47 billion, according to a CoreLogic analysis.

The total losses and physical damages were estimated to cost $343 billion, well below the peak loss year in 2011 of $615 billion, however the 2021 losses, compared to 2011-2020 were about 4% higher than the average of $271 billion, according to the 2021 Weather, Climate and Catastrophe Insight report.

Breakthroughs in AI over the past decade mean we can now use it to train computer vision algorithms to perform visual tasks as accurately or more than humans. Smartphones can be turned into visual experts in your pocket, which can appraise some aspects of the environment better than people.

Consumers getting policies from the California FAIR Plan climbed about 25% in 2020, according to data from the state’s insurance department. That was due to increases in both new policies and renewed ones.

Deanne Criswell, the first woman to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in April took over a 20,000-person operation exhausted by managing responses to disasters linked to global warming: wildfires and the 2020 hurricane season, the most active on record.

As Hurricane Dorian bears down on the U.S., some health payers are moving to assist members in the wake of expected storm impact and lack of access to health services.

Recognized in the tech industry on March 31, World Backup Day spurs IT and security experts to opine on how to preserve precious digital resources in the event of disaster.

The P&C carrier has found that IT infrastructure investments allow it to support new sources of data, like drones and smarthome devices.

The majority of the funding is designated for Texas and Florida, with most of the commonwealth's needs to be addressed at a later date.