The Catastrophe Risk Assessment Report is a proprietary tool developed by CRC Group’s Property experts to help retailers win with their clients. Exclusive to CRC Group, this report helps deliver an attractive and detailed presentation providing quality mapping and analytics with comprehensive location details and analysis to your insureds. It includes a summary of an account’s exposures aggregated a number of ways, including by CAT zones, State, flood zone, and construction type.

Property owners in thunderstorm-prone inland areas are learning the impact that catastrophe models can have on their insurance costs. While severe thunderstorm models have been around for years, carriers are now making greater use of them and asking for higher deductibles and percent deductibles in high-hazard areas.

Hurricanes dominated the headlines last year, but away from the coast, massive losses from thunderstorms, tornadoes, and wildfires continue to roil the property markets. Insureds that have become used to price cuts on non-coastal, non-cat driven business, now face possible rate increases and likely larger deductibles. Our special report "Away From the Coast - Rain, Wind and Fire Roil Property," provides valuable information about market conditions away from the coast and shows why you should avoid neglecting these non-coastal accounts. And as always, as hurricane season gets underway and is forecasted to be normal or above-normal, the experts at CRC Group are here and ready to help.

Winds of change are driving the property market in a new direction. Nature had been kind for more than a decade, sparing the U.S. from major hurricanes and earthquakes. At the same time, record-low interest rates lured tens of billions of dollars in alternative capital into insurance markets offering returns well above the rock-bottom rates available on more standard investments. The combination of new capital and relative calm combined to push insurance rates lower year after year — until now.