Flirting with Natural Disasters:

Why Companies Risk It All

Partner White Paper

Posted: September 2011 | 558 KB



FM Global, one of the world’s largest business property insurers, has released a research report, Flirting with Natural Disasters: Why Companies Risk It All. This paper examines why some companies prepare for the risk of natural disasters while others seemingly gamble with their future.  

Despite great media attention given to the ongoing spate of natural disasters worldwide and their high financial and human cost, many individuals and businesses do little to address their vulnerability to this hazard. 

The consequences of inaction--business disruption, a loss of competitiveness, reduced shareholder value and market share, and poor reputation--demand greater understanding of the perceived impediments to natural disaster preparedness
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