Emerging Issues
Keep up with the evolving risks facing your business
Emerging Issues provides Verisk customers with access to insights on cutting-edge research on topics and trends that may be of interest to insurers and risk managers.
Information that empowers
Emerging Issues helps insurers better understand new and emerging risk exposures. Through in-depth research, regular webinars, and a weekly newsletter, the Emerging Issues team helps keep you informed on over 40 topics. Available through ISOnet®, the Emerging Issues website contains proprietary research conducted by Verisk and links to timely research from third parties, including media publications, research groups, universities, and government regulatory agencies. Emerging Issues research is vital market intelligence that can help inform product development and strategic planning and is included for Verisk customers.
New EPA drinking water advisories set acceptable PFAS levels near zero
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued strict new rulings on PFAS in drinking water. Here's what you need to know.
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New research highlights the extent of PFAS groundwater contamination
The true extent of PFAS groundwater contamination is only now coming to light. Here's what insurers need to know.
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Are these cannabis risks on your radar?
Verisk’s Emerging Issues team explores the risks and opportunities insurers are facing as the market for cannabis and hemp products expands.
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Emerging risk and resilience: Are you ready for the next crisis?
How can insurers and risk managers balance short-term costs with long-term emerging risks?
Read the articleFrom artificial intelligence to zoonotic disease, Emerging Issues is a powerful resource for researching the emerging risks facing your business.
Perspectives: Climate change and black swans
Perspectives: Climate change and black swans
Climate change means more extreme weather catastrophes. The ability to anticipate and prepare for extreme weather, not just in terms of a single event from a single peril but also in terms of a series of such events over an entire year, can have widespread benefits to society.
And yet, we’re often caught off guard, or at least under-prepared, for many extreme weather events, leading the public to believe they were completely unpredictable—so-called black swans.
PFAS: Trends in Research
PFAS: Trends in Research
This Emerging Issues webinar was held on March 22, 2022, and featured Dr. Rainer Lohmann, Professor at the University of Rhode Island and Director of STEEP (Sources, Transport, Exposure & Effects of PFAS), a research center sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are an increasingly concerning subject, especially as more research about this class of chemicals comes to light.
The presentation highlights current trends in PFAS research, with a particular focus on how PFAS behave in the marine environment. Dr. Lohmann touches upon the chemistry of PFAS, their health effects, and current efforts to regulate, replace, or remediate PFAS.
Illuminating liability trends
Why do some emerging risks explode into major liability events while others don’t?
An ongoing research project from Verisk's Emerging Issues and Verisk’s extreme event modeling division is helping to shed light on this important question. By analyzing past issues for clues and applying a novel analytical framework to contemporary events, this research can help insurers identify trends that can create costly systemic liability events.
Focus on: Cannabis
The cannabis industry continues to evolve. What might we expect in the near future?
Webinar: Modern Cannabis 2021 and Beyond
Terradigm Co-founder, Sean Arnold, highlights some current commercial cannabis trends with a particular focus on certain standards in this industry and how they have evolved.
Cross-pollination concerns grow
Industrial hemp farmers and marijuana farmers may be botanically at odds if their fields are located too close to each other. Learn more.
Emerging Issues topics in focus
Stay current and informed on over 40 emerging issues. Here’s a selection of some of the issues we’re researching.
Solar Flares
People have been aware of the potential risks posed by solar storms to technology here on Earth for hundreds of years. A solar flare could cost insurers hundreds of billions. It’s not as unlikely as you think.
Alternative Energy
Energy storage systems play an increasingly critical role in energy infrastructure. But are they a major fire hazard waiting to happen?
Cannabis
Industrial hemp farmers and marijuana farmers may be botanically at odds if their fields are located too close to each other.
Climate Crisis
Changing Arctic weather patterns are beginning to produce tangible results beyond the Arctic that could eventually reverberate throughout the world.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Edge computing may be around the corner, delivering with it a host of associated risks and benefits. Could edge computing have a significant impact on emerging technologies, as well as many others?
Supply Chain
How come some U.S. farmers are being compelled to waste so many food products when hundreds of millions of people—both at home and abroad—are dealing with crisis levels of hunger?
Perspectives
Commentary and analysis from experts across Verisk on the critical issues facing insurers and society today.
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