Sarah Bobby

4/21/2026 - 5 min read

Severe Thunderstorms: A Frequency, Accumulation, and Volatility Peril

How near-present climate modeling and claims-aligned vulnerability are helping insurers and reinsurers better understand severe thunderstorm frequency, accumulation, and volatility risk.

5/18/2022 - 24 min read

Managing U.S. Severe Thunderstorm Risk: Part 3, Quantification of the Risk and Ratemaking Considerations

To close this series, we discuss US Severe Thunderstorm risk and the Verisk approach, our validation methodology, and how to use your claims experience with our model to form your own view.

1/24/2022 - 23 min read

Managing U.S. Severe Thunderstorm Risk: Part 2, New Hail Vulnerability Framework

In this article, the second of three in our series on managing U.S. severe thunderstorm risk, we discuss our innovative and first-of-its-kind hail vulnerability framework and how our updated model can distinguish the view of risk from one property to another.

3/27/2019 - 15 min read

Modeling Fundamentals: Why Does Verisk Conduct Post-Event Damage Surveys?

This article focuses primarily on damage surveys conducted in the aftermath of U.S. hurricanes and addresses how and why we conduct them. As we update our U.S. hurricane model—a tool that helps quantify the risk—we uncover more questions that are typically answered only after studying another event.