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BMS Group's SVP: Hurricane Katrina Reshaped Modeling, Risk Mitigation Strategies

Andy Siffert, senior vice president and senior meteorologist, BMS Group, discusses how Hurricane Katrina has transformed catastrophe risk modeling over the past two decades. Siffert spoke with AM . . .

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