Catastrophe Modeling Center of Excellence
Providing Regulators With Technical Expertise, Tools, and Information to Effectively Regulate Their Markets
The Catastrophe Modeling Center of Excellence (COE) is within the Center for Insurance Policy and Research (CIPR), maintaining a neutral perspective to build insights from data in a non-partisan manner. The COE provides regulators with technical training and expertise regarding catastrophe models and information regarding their use within the insurance industry. The COE also conducts research utilizing outputs from catastrophe models to assess the risk of loss from natural hazards. Risk assessment is a foundational tool to identify potential economic and insurance market disruption which can be applied to support policy and legislative action to reduce the risk.
Vendor Models
Facilitate Insurance department access to CAT model documentation, centralizing accumulated knowledge and expertise to aid in the distillation of technical information.
Education and Tools
Develop technical education and training materials on the mechanics of commercial models and the treatment of perils and risk exposures that is tailored to the needs of regulators.
Applied Research
Conduct applied research analysis using various model platforms to proactively answer regulatory questions concerning resilience priorities.
Climate Scenario Resources
On August 2, 2024, the Financial Condition (E) Committee adopted new interrogatories for the disclosure of climate-conditioned catastrophe exposure for hurricane and wildfire only in the catastrophe risk component of the P&C RBC blanks. These come into effect for YE24 RBC filing (due March 1, 2025). The following resources will assist insurance companies and their advisors with the preparation of these interrogatories.
Search Center of Excellence
Regulators interested in obtaining access to regulator-only catastrophe model training and documentation, please send an email to Amy Lopez at alopez@naic.org.
Contacts
Roger Claybrooke
Catastrophe Risk Data Analyst
rclaybrooke@naic.org
Jeff Czajkowski
Director, Center for Insurance Policy and Research
jczajkowski@naic.org
Shaveta Gupta
Catastrophe Risk and Modeling Advisor
sgupta3@naic.org
Brian Powell
Catastrophe Risk Resilience Specialist
bpowell@naic.org
Elisabetta Russo
Enterprise Risk Management Advisor
erusso@naic.org