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Generic Drugs, Federal Preemption, and FDA Rulemaking
Generic Drugs, Federal Preemption, and FDA Rulemaking 150 150 Adam Grossman

Praedicat’s new modeling capabilities in the pharmaceutical space present both opportunities for modeling and challenges arising in the ever-changing landscape of federal pharmaceutical law and regulation.  To illustrate how we…

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Does Fake Grass Mean Real Danger?
Does Fake Grass Mean Real Danger? 150 150 Sally Embrey

Many people who play touch football at their local high school or have taken their kids to youth soccer practice at the community park are familiar with artificial turf. Artificial…

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New Data and Technologies are Tackling Insurance’s Emerging Risk Problem
New Data and Technologies are Tackling Insurance’s Emerging Risk Problem 150 150 Praedicat

Bob Reville, Praedicat’s CEO, is interviewed by Business Reporter. In the video interview, he describes Praedicat’s approach to emerging risk identification using a methodology based on peer-reviewed scientific literature and…

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Evaluating the Predictive Power of Revenue, Industrial Classification and Claims as Leading Indicators for Casualty Cat Risk
Evaluating the Predictive Power of Revenue, Industrial Classification and Claims as Leading Indicators for Casualty Cat Risk 150 150 Praedicat

In a Carrier Management article, Fred Kipperman, Praedicat’s Vice President for Client Global Development, takes a look at traditional approaches to measuring casualty cat risks. The analysis explores how revenue,…

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IBNR Weekly Features Praedicat and Oortfolio™
IBNR Weekly Features Praedicat and Oortfolio™ 150 150 Praedicat

The October 6th, 2016 edition of Dowling & Partners – IBNR Weekly (IBNR #38, Vol.XXII) features Praedicat and Oortfolio™, and indicates, “ability to model casualty risks should make more risks…

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Praedicat Releases Oortfolio™, An Unprecedented Liability Catastrophe Modeling Platform — Swiss Re Licenses Oortfolio and Partners with Praedicat to Drive Better Casualty Risk Management
Praedicat Releases Oortfolio™, An Unprecedented Liability Catastrophe Modeling Platform — Swiss Re Licenses Oortfolio and Partners with Praedicat to Drive Better Casualty Risk Management 150 150 Praedicat

Praedicat, an InsureTech analytics company based in Los Angeles, has released Oortfolio™, its new groundbreaking liability insurance risk modeling platform. Applying cutting-edge data science and modeling, Oortfolio provides an unprecedented…

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The Gilded Cage
The Gilded Cage 150 150 Praedicat

Insider Quarterly’s fall 2016 edition surveys the landscape of casualty catastrophe modeling. The author, Adam McNestrie, describes Praedicat CEO Bob Reville as casualty modeling’s “most ambitious protagonist,” and he concludes…

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Praedicat Granted a Patent for Determining General Causation from Processing Scientific Articles
Praedicat Granted a Patent for Determining General Causation from Processing Scientific Articles 150 150 Praedicat

Praedicat is proud to announce the award of U.S. Patent No. 9,430,739: Determining General Causation from Processing Scientific Articles. The patent describes an innovative method for processing entire scientific literatures,…

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Is All Fracking Created Equal?
Is All Fracking Created Equal? 150 150 R.J. Briggs

In spite of all the controversy, not one study published before 2016 on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) finds evidence that the practice causes systemic groundwater contamination. Some instances of methane migration…

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U.S. NTP Releases New Findings on Cell Phones and Cancer. Will Scientific Consensus Shift?
U.S. NTP Releases New Findings on Cell Phones and Cancer. Will Scientific Consensus Shift? 150 150 Sally Embrey

Do cell phones cause cancer? It’s a highly pertinent question considering that 5 billion people worldwide are expected to use mobile phones by 2017.1 The general causation risk scores on…

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What Happens to Liability Risk When Regulators Take Action? The Case of Silica.
What Happens to Liability Risk When Regulators Take Action? The Case of Silica. 150 150 Sheryll Mangahas

Inhalation of crystalline silica can cause silicosis, a permanent scarring of the lungs leading to impaired lung functioning, and possibly death. Silicosis first garnered public attention in the early 1930s…

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Today’s Data Forecasts Tomorrow’s Casualty Claims
Today’s Data Forecasts Tomorrow’s Casualty Claims 150 150 Praedicat

Bob Reville, Praedicat’s CEO, is interviewed by A.M. Best TV.  In the video interview, he discusses how a machine-scale forward-looking approach to emerging risks can enable sustainable profits in commercial…

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