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Blog  •  August 30, 2023

Improve Underwriting Profitability with One Concern’s Business Interruption API

MENLO PARK, CALIF. (August 30, 2023) – Underwriting profitability requires that organizations maintain focus on risk selection, pricing, portfolio management, and policy coverage(s). These components of underwriting success rely on a strong data-driven technology stack and a strategy that harnesses powerful data for informed and quick decision making. Underwriters have…

Blog  •  August 8, 2023

Minimize Supply Chain Disruptions Before an Event Occurs

MENLO PARK, CALIF. (August 8, 2023) – Corporations are facing an increase in supply chain risk from both internal and external factors. Internally, as supply chains become more complex and outsourced, visibility to physical risk has decreased with existing supply chain management (SCM) technologies, especially when considering dependency risk to…

Blog  •  August 7, 2023

One Concern’s Resilience Modeling: Highlights from ICASP14 Conference

We take great pleasure in announcing that two of One Concern models were recently presented at the 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATION OF STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING (ICASP14) conference. This conference focuses on the applications of statistics and probability in civil engineering and is one of the key…

Blog  •  July 26, 2023

Utilizing One Concern Tools to Facilitate Functional Recovery in Alignment with the Federal Plan

MENLO PARK, CALIF. (July 26, 2023) – In an era marked by escalating natural disasters, the focus of risk mitigation has evolved from mere survival to speedy recovery. The federal government, through the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), underscores this modified approach with a focus on functional recovery of…

Blog  •  July 25, 2023

Insurers Finally Have a Tool for Capturing Business Interruption Risk

MENLO PARK, CALIF. (July 25, 2023) – Recent natural disasters have and will continue to expose commercial property (re)insurers to significant business interruption (BI) losses. Previously, commercial property (re)insurers priced business interruption risk solely as a function of physical damage to the insured property. Now, for the first time ever,…

Blog  •  July 21, 2023

One Concern Fills Critical Gap in Property Valuation Models: Impacts of Downtime on Cash Flow

MENLO PARK, CALIF. (July 14, 2023) — Traditional real-estate valuation methods, such as discounted cash flow (DCF) models, do not adequately account for costs associated with catastrophic events and their impact on a property’s net operating income (NOI) over a given time horizon. These DCF models, designed to predict likely…

Blog  •  December 13, 2022

Hurricane Ian 2022 – Putting our Digital Twin to the Test

In a single day, Hurricane Ian became one of the most expensive storms in American history, estimated to have caused over $67 billion in insured damages alone (and extensive uninsured damages). Even a month after the storm, communities across Florida and beyond are only beginning to rebuild and reopen businesses.…

Blog  •  October 12, 2022

Increasing Resilience Across the Real Estate Life Cycle

Hurricane Ian has devastated Florida’s Gulf coast. The total damages resulting from prolonged power outages and infrastructure failures in the Fort Myers area and across Florida will likely vastly exceed the cost of property destroyed by the wind or the flooding itself; losses from the storm are expected to be…

Blog  •  October 6, 2022

Expanding the Reach of Our Digital Twin Technology to Japan

 By Ahmad Wani, CEO & Co-Founder, One Concern Our mission of making disasters less disastrous means fostering resilience in as many locations across the globe as we can, especially in those areas that are most vulnerable to hazards. Although Japan makes up only 0.28% of the world’s land area, it…

Blog  •  September 21, 2022

Disaster-Proofing by Decarbonization: Linking Physical Climate Risk to Transition Risk

Monday, September 19th marked the beginning of UN Climate Week. This year, we confront the climate crisis with greater urgency than ever before, as companies race to meet their decarbonization targets, struggle to comply with new disclosure requirements, and contend with financial losses from extreme weather events. The UN Intergovernmental…