Description: Over the past 25 years, continued aggregation of coastal property values and the ongoing assimilation of physical assets in highly vulnerable areas around the country have created increasing levels of volatility for the Property and Casualty Industry. Normalizing the impact of historic U.S. wind and quake events in terms of population growth and wealth accumulation demonstrates the vulnerability of the industry's balance sheet to major catastrophic events.

This Webcast, hosted by the editors of Best's Review, is sponsored by Lexington Insurance Co., America's leading surplus lines insurer, providing property, casualty, and specialty coverages and programs for a vast array of risk classes to large and middle market companies.

Speakers:
Brian Finlay
Senior Associate Director
Henry L. Stimson Center

Sanjay Godhwani, FCAS, MAAA
Executive Vice President, and Division Executive,
Property Division
Lexington Insurance Company

Laurie Johnson, PhD, AICP
Senior Science Advisor
Lexington Insurance Company

Roger Pielke Jr., PhD
Professor of Environmental Studies
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
University of Colorado