It's an exciting day for the ACIIR. The center's first PhD student is defending his dissertation today. Congratulations Shane Crawford!

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Coronavirus epidemy in Iran has past the crisis level. The country is imploding - law and order to disappear in the next days. A number of officials already died and mass infection among hospital staff and police forces reported.

The U. of Illinois business and engineering schools cleverly insured against a loss of Chinese students from "a trade war, a global pandemic, [or] visa restrictions." finance.yahoo.com/news/universit…

A special message from Coach Saban, Big AL and Jeff Allen! #InThisTogether #RollTide

Join me for this event: 2020 WRIEC cvent.com/d/6nqn5l?lang=… Media.

I’m seeing lots of ads from faculty in top/rich Econ departments this week hiring full-time pre-docs. You sure you all can’t just admit these talented students into your PHD programs, let them train and coauthor with you, and get on with their adult/professional lives? 🤷‍♀️

Today, I kicked off the inaugural meeting of the Alabama Resilience Council. I established this council to help us better prepare for when disaster strikes so we can preserve lives, protect jobs and ensure our state’s future remains bright. #alpolitics

.Insurance Information Institute non-resident scholar and Director of the Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research, The University of Alabama, Lars Powell: "In the Alabama market, fortified homes sell for an average of 7% more than standard construction homes." #JIF2024

Hot off the press. Thanks to my coauthors, R.J. Lehmann and Lars Powell. I hope folks in California will find this piece helpful as they seek to forge a path forward with Prop 103 in the wake of the Palisades fire. Happy to chat with anyone interested in 103. Link follows.

At White House meeting sharing paper by Texas Public Policy Foundation and R Street Institute on negative effects of BAT for TX insurance consumers. bit.ly/2ra0UR7

Study: #Bermuda reinsurers keep #insurance rates low for #Americans: #BorderAdjustmentTax would raise rates bermudareinsurancemagazine.com/news/study-bac…

The sharing, pooling & mining of #data can lead to better #decisionmaking & #analytics #WednesdayWisdom vrsk.co/2sPrH1W

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Thanks! We're also looking forward to the fruits of this partnership, Phil. x.com/philklotzbach/…

Pre disaster risk financing. Excellent public private partnership @InsDevForum x.com/ccrif_pr/statu…

The Styslinger College of Engineering #HurricaneIrmaDamageAssessment team ready to roll out. #Fortified

We cannot stress enough the danger of LIFE-THREATENING storm surge especially in Mobile Bay Region. Don't focus on storm category! #nate 1/2

"What is, 'which #insurance questions stumped contestants in the Double Jeopardy! round, Alex'?" bit.ly/2mrci9a

"The A.M. Best report adds to the general consensus among industry experts that reforms are likely to encourage firms to concentrate risks within the U.S..." #WeWarnedYou. @IAaboutCA Lars Powell reinsurancene.ws/tax-reform-dri…