Uncovering Underwriting: Strategies to Secure Property Insurance and Protect Your Assets from Natural Hazards

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2025-04-02
2025-04-02T13:00:00 - 2025-04-02T14:00:00
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    Are rising insurance premiums threatening your CRE portfolio's bottom line? Global insured losses due to natural disasters hit US$123 billion in 2023, continuing a trend with losses topping US$100 billion for the fourth straight year. These losses have forced insurers and re-insurers to tighten their underwriting standards, leaving many commercial real estate owners struggling to find affordable coverage. In this webinar, attendees will get an inside look at the property insurance underwriting process and learn strategies for reducing asset scale risk. ULI members enjoy exclusive access to this webinar featuring industry leaders in catastrophe modeling, property insurance, and risk analysis. Moderated by Lindsay Brugger, VP of Urban Resilience, panelists include:

    • Panelist: Rose Grant - Former Research Architect, State Farm
    • Panelist: Kevin Madden (Aon) - Insurance Industry Executive
    • Panelist: James Oliver (Aon) – Vice President, Catastrophe Modeling

    In this member-exclusive webinar, you will:  

    • Discover how design, construction, and maintenance factors impact property insurance underwriting and premiums.
    • Learn which hazard mitigation measures can significantly reduce Average Annual Loss (AAL) and potentially lower insurance premiums.
    • Explore CRE’s Guide to Natural Hazards and Property Insurance Underwriting, a new interactive ULI search and reference tool designed to support professionals in evaluating risk-reduction strategies and their implications for property insurance policies — containing over 50 data points related to environmental hazards.

    Gain insights directly from the experts in a live Q&A session.

    Exclusive Member Benefit: Q&A with the Experts | This webinar includes a live Q&A session with our panelists. Submit your questions in advance.

     

    Who Should Attend: This webinar is designed for CRE investors, developers, owners, and design professionals seeking to understand and mitigate the financial risks associated with extreme weather.  

    Register now for this exclusive ULI member webinar and gain unparalleled access to the insights that are shaping the future of commercial real estate.

    Speakers

    Moderator

    Lindsay Brugger

    Vice President, Urban Resilience, Urban Land Institute

    Lindsay Brugger is Vice President, Urban Resilience for the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a global nonprofit organization comprising more than 45,000 real estate and urban development professionals dedicated to advancing the Institute’s mission of shaping the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide. Ms. Brugger leads ULI’s Urban Resilience Program to advance the real estate industry’s understanding of climate risk, catalyze action to reduce vulnerability, and support communities in becoming more climate resilient. A licensed architect, certified passive house consultant, and frequent speaker, Ms. Brugger has worked for over a decade at the intersection of resilience, adaptation, and the built environment. She began her career as a practicing architect; extending her services to Architecture for Humanity DC where she co-founded and directed the Resilience by Design Program. Prior to joining ULI, Ms. Brugger was the Director of Resilience Knowledge and Engagement at the American Institute of Architects. During her tenure, she championed resilience, climate adaptation, and disaster assistance; creating tools and resources to help AIA’s 95,000 architects build new skillsets, integrate resilience into practice, and support their communities pre- and post-disaster. An avid partner in advancing resilience action throughout the building industry, Ms. Brugger often serves as a subject matter expert on climate adaptation and the built environment, supporting organizations and initiatives such as the National Institute of Building Sciences, the National Institute of Standards & Technology, and the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. Ms. Brugger received a Master of Architecture and B.S. in Architecture from Roger Williams University; as well as the Alpha Rho Chi Medal for her leadership and service.

    Panelist

    Kevin Madden

    Managing Director - Real Estate Practice Leader, AON

    Kevin is Aon’s Real Estate Practice Leader. Representing over 30% of the largest real estate owners and managers, Aon is the largest real estate insurance broker. As the Aon real estate practice leader, Kevin works intimately with real estate colleagues in the practice globally. He is committed to providing real estate clients with experienced and professional risk management, insurance services, and consulting solutions. Property, casualty, construction, environmental, management and professional liability, cyber, transactional liability, health and benefits. He also assists with due diligence, operational risk, talent and compensation. Experience Kevin has over 30 years of real estate insurance experience and has worked with large domestic clients as well as global clients, Kevin joined Aon in 1995 and has been the Real Estate Practice Leader since 2000. Expertise Kevin’s expertise includes various real estate and insurance committees and task forces and has consulted closely with many real estate lenders on their insurance requirements. He provides creative strategic marketing and servicing input for real estate clients. He has implemented master real estate programs for many institutional and private equity firms, who previously relied upon their property managers and partners coverage. Historically these competitive programs have increased the clients yield performance by as much as 100 basis points. In addition to risk managers, many of Aon’s real estate clients, asset and acquisition managers avail themselves of Kevin’s expertise. As an expert on insurance for the real estate industry, Kevin is a regular speaker on insurance issues for many associations/conferences (National Multi Housing Council, NAREIT, Urban Land Institute, National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers, BOMA, Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), and PERE America).

    Panelist

    James Oliver

    Vice President, Catastrophe Modeling, AON

    James heads the Catastrophe Modeling team for Aon’s National Property Group. He has 8 years of experience in catastrophe modeling performing analyses for hundreds of different clients to aid in better insurance purchasing decisions. He recently has helped lead the development of Aon’s Property Risk Analyzer. Prior to joining Aon in 2017, James served as a research assistant at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, where he performed extensive statistical analysis on precipitation data sets over Bihar, India to attempt to better understand the intricacies of monsoonal forecasting in the season to sub-seasonal forecast time period. He also served as a meteorologist for the University of Miami Television while receiving his bachelor’s degree.

    Panelist

    Rose Geier Grant

    Former Research Architect, State Farm Insurance

    Rose, a licensed architect, is president of Rose Grant Architectural Services, Inc. For over 20 years she worked for State Farm in its Technology Research and Innovation Laboratory researching the performance attributes of buildings exposed to natural hazards. Field evaluations included responding to hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, and hailstorms. Rose was State Farm’s designated industry liaison to the building research and construction community including the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety. In 2018 she served on a team of experts that developed the FEMA P-2055 Post-Disaster Building Safety Evaluation Guide. As an architect, having earned the insurance industry Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation, she is able to identify architectural design and resilience features that address the insurance industry’s emerging performance concerns. Rose provided input to numerous national committees, having served on the American Institute of Architects’ Blue-Ribbon Panel for Codes and Standards, the National Institute of Building Science’s Multihazard Mitigation Council and the NIBS Council on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Community Resilience Panel. She served as chair of the AIA Disaster Assistance Committee and co-chair of the AIA’s Resilience and Adaptation Advisory Group.

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