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Dale Thomure

Dale Thomure is the manager of ISO Community Mitigation at Verisk. You can contact Dale at Dale.Thomure@verisk.com.

Risk

9/27/2022 - 3 min read

Best practices for underwriting natural catastrophe risk

Taking into consideration the nuances of the property you’re insuring can help you take charge of multifaceted risk factors.

Structures Built

3/2/2022 - 2 min read

Building resiliency with building codes

BCEGS helps communities, policyholders, and insurers understand how community resiliency positively impact non-catastrophe weather losses.

Fema Bcegs Teaser

12/23/2020 - 5 min read

FEMA study shows stringent building codes save billions in losses from natural disasters

BCEGS was among the key sources for a FEMA study that demonstrated that building codes reduce financial losses in natural catastrophes.

Bcegs Report

3/20/2019 - 1 min read

ISO releases new, updated national state building code report

ISO has released the 2019 National Building Code Assessment Report, detailing the status of the nation’s building codes, including assessments of participating states.

7525

5/24/2017 - 3 min read

Spreading the word on building code effectiveness

Building code effectiveness and enforcement are vital to a community’s risk mitigation and something most insurers consider highly important when underwriting a property policy.

7369

1/5/2017 - 3 min read

Improvements seen in BCEGS® states

7250

5/26/2016 - 4 min read

Florida's investment in building codes pays off

There could hardly be a better laboratory to test the benefits of strong building codes than Florida in the first decade of the 21st century.

7218

2/16/2016 - 2 min read

Working toward more resilient communities for 20 years

Mother Nature started 2016 with a bang in late January, dropping record and near-record snowfalls across the eastern seaboard.