Have you tried the new WSRB Earthquake Risks tool? We launched it to help you better understand multiple earthquake-related property damage risk factors. It goes beyond distance to fault line and includes lahar presence, susceptibility to soil liquefaction and more.
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Our new Earthquake Risks tool gives you easy access to information on multiple earthquake-related data points for any location in Washington state. One of those factors is susceptibility to soil liquefaction. In previous blog posts, we’ve talked a little about what soil liquefaction is and the damage it can cause. Today, we’ll go into more detail about liquefaction and what can be done to reduce its potential impact.
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Pricing commercial insurance coverage is always part art, part science. Underwriters must consider not only their company’s risk appetite but also what a competitor might charge.
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WSRB’s commercial property analysts inspect hundreds of buildings each year for Subscribers. When they’re in the field, our inspectors encounter all kinds of risky conditions and fire hazards that affect insurance loss costs.
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The pictures of places affected by an earthquake, severe storm or other natural disaster often have a puzzling feature: some homes and buildings have survived while others have been reduced to rubble. One answer to the puzzle relates to the local area’s building codes.
Read MoreTopics: BCEGS, insurance underwriting, building construction, code enforcement, risk assessment
Innovation has become so important to the insurance industry that rating agency AM Best will soon begin evaluating insurers’ innovation abilities. Exactly how that evaluation will work is still being determined, and if you’d like to voice your opinion on how it should work, you still have a little time.
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Thanks to two television series (and a third one in the works), 90210 is perhaps the most famous ZIP code. The tens of thousands of other ZIP codes toil in relative obscurity but are no less important to not just mail delivery but also a wide variety of other business functions.
Read MoreTopics: insurance underwriting, loss cost, PropertyEDGE, GIS mapping, risk assessment
Today, WSRB offers insurance companies instantaneous access to data, both on our website and integrated directly into policy administration systems. We’ve come a long way since our founding in 1911, decades before the technology we now take for granted was invented.
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When the Big One hits, what kind of damage can you expect? While it’s up to fate as to how intense or severe the quake will be — or when it will happen — the fact is set in stone. Earthquakes can and do happen here.
In fact, Washington state is second only to California when it comes to earthquake risk, and this is reflected in our earthquake classifications.
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Topics: insurance underwriting, building construction, GIS mapping, inspections, insurance
Located along the infamous Ring of Fire, Washington state experiences an earthquake about once every 8 hours[1]. As an underwriter, chances are you have a number of risks on or near a fault line — over 100 known faults crisscross Western Washington and Oregon.
Topics: insurance underwriting, PropertyEDGE, GIS mapping, earthquake, liquefaction, volcanoes
