Cat Tales November/December 2017

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e-newsletter of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction Volume 11, Issue 6 November/December 2017

ICLR: Looking back, looking ahead

Inside this issue

ICLR: Looking back, looking ahead

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A few realizations 3/4, 6 about natural disasters Preliminary sigma losses for 2017

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ICLR Board of Directors Barbara Bellissimo (Chair) Desjardins Gail Atkinson Western Steve Cohen Aviva Canada Joseph El-Sayegh SCOR Louis Gagnon Intact Andy Hrymak Western Carol Jardine Wawanesa Paul Kovacs ICLR Sean Murphy Lloyd’s Canada Veronica Scotti Swiss Re Heidi Sevcik Gore Mutual Dan Shrubsole Western Philipp Wassenberg Munich Re Canada Rob Wesseling Co-operators

As the Institute wrapped up it’s 20th year and rolled into the second year of its current five-year plan, ICLR will continue to focus on four priority research and outreach issues as set out by its Insurance Advisory Committee and Board of Directors:

private property owners to better manage storm water and protect against flood risk. Throughout 2017, ICLR continued to work with building industry experts and municipalities to develop best practices in the design of new subdivisions to reduce urban flood  Guide actions to reduce the risk risk. In 2018, the Institute will of basement flooding further promote its new micro  Champion the construction of website www.backwatervalve disaster-resilient homes  Support efforts to enhance the installation.com, which provides information about how to install and resilience of existing homes maintain a backwater valve, and  Promote the use of risk Institute staff will continue to work financing mechanisms like with Dr. Andy Binns, Engineering, insurance University of Guelph, on the further development of a research centre Basement flooding for testing devices related to ICLR is recognized as a centre of excellence in the area of basement preventing sewer backup. flood risk reduction. The Institute’s New homes basement flood research and communication material is used by The year now passed marked a watershed annum toward the such cities as Toronto, Windsor, application of ICLR research to Mississauga, Peterborough and Kingston, Ontario, and Lethbridge, enhance building codes. ICLR Alberta; Durham, Niagara and Peel provided codes and standards recommendations seeking to ► Regions in Ontario; and the Province of New Brunswick to name but a few. In 2017, ICLR published Assessing local mandatory measures to reduce flood risk and Inflow & Infiltration in existing homes, focusing on legal approaches adopted by local governments to reduce the risk of basement flooding requiring action by


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