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Comparing an insurer's perspective on building damages with modelled damages from pan-European winter windstorm event sets: a case study from Zurich, Switzerland
Christoph Welker
GVZ Gebäudeversicherung Kanton Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Thomas Röösli
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, Zurich,
Switzerland
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich,
Switzerland
David N. Bresch
Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, Zurich,
Switzerland
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich,
Switzerland
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How representative are local building insurers' claims to assess winter windstorm risk? In our case study of Zurich, we use a risk model for windstorm building damages and compare three different inputs: insurance claims and historical and probabilistic windstorm datasets. We find that long-term risk is more robustly assessed based on windstorm datasets than on claims data only. Our open-access method allows European building insurers to complement their risk assessment with modelling results.
How representative are local building insurers' claims to assess winter windstorm risk? In our...
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