Download or read book Florida Public Hurricane Loss Projection Model written by Joshua Murphree and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida Public Hurricane Loss Projection Model written by Arnoldo A. Artiles and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Open Government Sunset Review of Section 627 06292 F S Reports of Hurricane Loss and Associated Exposure Data Utilized for the Development of the Public Hurricane Loss Projection Model written by Florida. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Banking and Insurance and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvements to the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model Including a Comparison of ASCE 7 05 to ASCE 7 10 written by Steven Andrew Bell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model is a catastrophe model commissioned by the State of Florida with the primary purpose of predicting insured losses of residential buildings due to hurricanes. The model has been in a state of ongoing development since 2001, and is contributed to by several universities around the state of Florida. The model is comprised of three main components. The Meteorological Component predicts and models hurricane behavior. The Vulnerability Component predicts and models building damage given specific wind conditions. Lastly, the Actuarial Component takes data from the other two to predict and analyze economic losses. This paper presents several updates to the Vulnerability Component of the model. First, a more realistic cost analysis is presented, created based on information gathered from actual building contractors as well as RS Means. The new cost analysis includes updates such as unit costs that scale with repair size, considerations for actual roof repair methodology, and various other factors specific to the particular building requirements and market conditions of Florida. Second, an analysis of Contents (as well as ALE) vs. Building damage curves (aka Type 2 curves), which allow the Vulnerability Component of the model to be validated independently of the Meteorological Component, is presented. A procedure for their use in model validation is also given, along with a brief sample validation which illustrates the usefulness of the Type 2 curves in uncovering hidden issues with the model. Finally, a brief study analyzing the effects of the changes made to the wind provisions of ASCE 7-10 is presented. The study shows that the changes implemented in ASCE 7-10 will have little effect, in the case of low-rise, personal residential buildings, on actual building practices in the state of Florida.
Download or read book Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology written by Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology written by Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Hurricane Loss Prediction Model written by Liang Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revision to the Personal Residential Component of the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model written by Timothy James Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OPPAGA written by Florida. Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of a Hurricane Loss Projection Model for Commercial Residential Buildings written by Juan Antonio Balderrama Garcia Mendez and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research presented in this thesis contributes to the development of a probabilistic model that fulfills this goal. The main component of the model is a Monte Carlo Simulation engine that samples component capacities, the loads they sustain, and predicts their probability of damage. The damage estimates calculated by these models will be used to predict interior building damage and finally monetary losses.
Download or read book Safety Reliability Risk and Life Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures written by George Deodatis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety, Reliability, Risk and Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures contains the plenary lectures and papers presented at the 11th International Conference on STRUCTURAL SAFETY AND RELIABILITY (ICOSSAR2013, New York, NY, USA, 16-20 June 2013), and covers major aspects of safety, reliability, risk and life-cycle performance of str
Download or read book Florida Public Adjuster s Handbook of Statutes Rules and Other Legal Authorities written by Kurtis Jay Keefer, Esq. and published by Kurtis Jay Keefer, Esq.. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Florida, the legal authorities governing and relating to property insurance, associated claims, and insurance adjusting are scattered in various bodies of law (beyond the “Florida Insurance Code”). Unfortunately, they are not always easy to locate, or logically categorized or ordered. This book contains a comprehensive compilation of these statutes, rules, and other legal authorities. To compile the materials in this publication, an exhaustive review was undertaken of the Florida Statutes, Florida Administrative Code, and other bodies of law. Once compiled, the authorities were then re-categorized and re-ordered in an effort to make them easier to search. In addition, this book includes a helpful list of over one hundred (100) important deadlines and timing issues, as well as a list of other selected statutes, an extensive list of state and federal cases (arranged by topic), and a list of resources relevant to property insurance and public adjusting. Public adjusters should find this book helpful to their adjustment and handling of claims, and in dealing with insurance representatives. It should also assist public adjusters in becoming more familiar with the relevant legal authorities, and the legislative process, which has become more important in recent years with the passage of restrictive regulations for public adjusters. This publication is not designed to be read from cover to cover like a traditional book; rather, it is to be used as a reference tool. Table of Contents Segment 1 – Important Deadlines and Timing Issues Segment 2 – Statutes of Limitations and Notice Issues Segment 3 – Public Adjusters and Insurance Representatives – Licensing and Appointments Segment 4 – Public Adjusters and Insurance Representatives – Continuing Education Segment 5 – Public Adjusters and Insurance Representatives – Ethical Rules and Other Similar Authorities Segment 6 – Public Adjusters and Insurance Representatives – Advertising and Soliciting Segment 7 – Public Adjuster Contracts Segment 8 – Public Adjuster Fees, and Other Fees Segment 9 – Public Adjusters and Insurance Representatives – Unlicensed Practice of Law and Adjusting Segment 10 – Public Adjusters and Insurance Representatives – Other Rules Segment 11 – Collection Issues Segment 12 – Insurance Policies Segment 13 – Cancellation, Renewal, and Nonrenewal of Insurance Policies” Segment 14 – Claims Handling Issues Segment 15 – Payment Issues Segment 16 – Bad Faith and Unfair Trade Practices Segment 17 – Fraud Segment 18 – Disciplinary Issues for Public Adjusters, Insurance Representatives, and Insurers Segment 19 – Mortgage and Banking Issues, and Lender Placed Insurance Segment 20 – Ordinance or Law Coverage, including Building Codes, etc. Segment 21 – Condominium and Timeshare Issues Segment 22 – Sinkhole Claims Segment 23 – Hurricane and Windstorm Issues Segment 24 – Flood Insurance Claims Segment 25 – Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Segment 26 – Surplus Lines Insurance and Insurers Segment 27 – Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (“F.I.G.A.”) Segment 28 – Relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“F.E.M.A.”) Segment 29 – Right to Access Information Segment 30 – Policyholder’s Bill of Rights Segment 31 – Various Definitions Segment 32 – Mediation of Property Insurance Claims Segment 33 – Litigation Issues Appendix I – Other Selected Statutes, Rules, etc. Appendix II – Selected Florida and Federal Cases Appendix III – Resources Index
Download or read book Report of Activities as of November 1 2004 written by Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Predicting the Vulnerability of Typical Commercial and Single Family Residential Buildings to Hurricane Damage written by Johann Everton Weekes and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane impacts have caused significant damage to residential and commercial structures, producing billions of dollars in insured losses. Numerical models are widely used by insurance companies in the prediction of loss cost. Several such loss projection models have been developed by private industry, and the State of Florida sponsored development of a non-proprietary hurricane loss model, known as the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model (FPHLM). This model resulted from a multi-university effort to quantify the damages and cost of repairs for structures that have been subjected to hurricane force winds. The original FPHLM focused on single-family residential housing. The model is now extended to cover commercial-residential buildings ranging from multi-story apartments to the high rise condominiums typically found lining the beaches of South Florida. This paper proposal focuses on the development of the exterior vulnerability component of the commercial-residential model, and provides a description of the strategies to probabilistically quantify physical exterior damage for two models: low-rise and mid/high rise commercial-residential structures.
Download or read book Hydro Environmental Analysis written by James L. Martin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 5742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on fundamental principles, Hydro-Environmental Analysis: Freshwater Environments presents in-depth information about freshwater environments and how they are influenced by regulation. It provides a holistic approach, exploring the factors that impact water quality and quantity, and the regulations, policy and management methods that are necessary to maintain this vital resource. It offers a historical viewpoint as well as an overview and foundation of the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics affecting the management of freshwater environments. The book concentrates on broad and general concepts, providing an interdisciplinary foundation. The author covers the methods of measurement and classification; chemical, physical, and biological characteristics; indicators of ecological health; and management and restoration. He also considers common indicators of environmental health; characteristics and operations of regulatory control structures; applicable laws and regulations; and restoration methods. The text delves into rivers and streams in the first half and lakes and reservoirs in the second half. Each section centers on the characteristics of those systems and methods of classification, and then moves on to discuss the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of each. In the section on lakes and reservoirs, it examines the characteristics and operations of regulatory structures, and presents the methods commonly used to assess the environmental health or integrity of these water bodies. It also introduces considerations for restoration, and presents two unique aquatic environments: wetlands and reservoir tailwaters. Written from an engineering perspective, the book is an ideal introduction to the aquatic and limnological sciences for students of environmental science, as well as students of environmental engineering. It also serves as a reference for engineers and scientists involved in the management, regulation, or restoration of freshwater environments.
Download or read book Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling written by Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers both the practical and theoretical aspects of catastrophe modelling for insurance industry practitioners and public policymakers. Written by authors with both academic and industry experience it also functions as an excellent graduate-level text and overview of the field. Ours is a time of unprecedented levels of risk from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Fortunately, it is also an era of relatively inexpensive technologies for use in assessing those risks. The demand from both commercial and public interests—including (re)insurers, NGOs, global disaster management agencies, and local authorities—for sophisticated catastrophe risk assessment tools has never been greater, and contemporary catastrophe modelling satisfies that demand. Combining the latest research with detailed coverage of state-of-the-art catastrophe modelling techniques and technologies, this book delivers the knowledge needed to use, interpret, and build catastrophe models, and provides greater insight into catastrophe modelling’s enormous potential and possible limitations. The first book containing the detailed, practical knowledge needed to support practitioners as effective catastrophe risk modellers and managers Includes hazard, vulnerability and financial material to provide the only independent, comprehensive overview of the subject, accessible to students and practitioners alike Demonstrates the relevance of catastrophe models within a practical, decision-making framework and illustrates their many applications Includes contributions from many of the top names in the field, globally, from industry, academia, and government Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling: A Practitioner’s Guide is an important working resource for catastrophe modelling analysts and developers, actuaries, underwriters, and those working in compliance or regulatory functions related to catastrophe risk. It is also valuable for scientists and engineers seeking to gain greater insight into catastrophe risk management and its applications.
Download or read book Multi hazard Approaches to Civil Infrastructure Engineering written by Paolo Gardoni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on the development of novel approaches to address one of the most pressing challenges of civil engineering, namely the mitigation of natural hazards. Numerous engineering books to date have focused on, and illustrate considerable progress toward, mitigation of individual hazards (earthquakes, wind, and so forth.). The current volume addresses concerns related to overall safety, sustainability and resilience of the built environment when subject to multiple hazards: natural disaster events that are concurrent and either correlated (e.g., wind and surge); uncorrelated (e.g., earthquake and flood); cascading (e.g., fire following earthquake); or uncorrelated and occurring at different times (e.g., wind and earthquake). The authors examine a range of specific topics including methodologies for vulnerability assessment of structures, new techniques to reduce the system demands through control systems; instrumentation, monitoring and condition assessment of structures and foundations; new techniques for repairing structures that have suffered damage during past events, or for structures that have been found in need of strengthening; development of new design provisions that consider multiple hazards, as well as questions from law and the humanities relevant to the management of natural and human-made hazards.
