Facts & figures

Risk Management, May, 2007

After Croatian terrorists hijacked Flight, 364 on its way from Copenhagen to Belgrade on January 26, 1972 and exploded a bomb that killed 27 of the passangers and crew that were aboard the plane, 22-year-old Czechoslovakian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic fell 33,000 feet onto a German mountain, in the process setting the record for longest fall ever survived without a parachute.

Source: Guinness Book of World Records

81% Initial estimate by Colorado State University scientists that a Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane would hit the U.S. coastline in 2006

0 Number of actual landfalls

62% Initial estimate by Colorado State University scientists that a Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane would hit the U.S. coastline in 2007

Source: Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science

Complaints by Line of Coverage in 2006

Complaints by Line of Coverage in 2006

Line                      Total   Percentage

Auto                     71,302      37.4%
Accident and Health      62,954      33.0%
Homeowners               24,785      13.0%
Life and Annuity         16,939       8.9%
Commercial Multi-Peril    3,521       1.9%

Source: National Association of Insurance Commisioners

1 The number of camels killed in Somalia by a an unidentified "satellite-like" piece of debris that fell from space in March

Source: SomaliNet

Occupational
Fatalities by
Assaults and
Violent Acts
(per 100,000 people)

California   0.174
Texas        0.236
New York      0.35
Hawaii       0.549

Source: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 2004

U.S. Coal Mining
Fatalities (1993-2006)

West Virginia   144
Kentucky        141
Pennsylvania     42
Virginia         39
Alabama          35
The Other 45     88
U.S. States

Source: Mine Safety and
Health Administration

Data Breaches that
Could Lead to ID Theft (likelihood by sector)

Government           25%
Education            20%
Health Care          14%
Financial Services    9%
Other                 9%
Insurance             6%

Source: Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and Attritions.org

29.9 Life expectancy in Swaziland

Source: Economist

188,737 The number of flood insurance claims received from Louisiana by the NFIP after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

51,156 The number of these claims that were "closed without payment" by the National Flood Insurance Program

Source: Congressional Research Service

65 The number of risk retention groups operating in the U.S. in 2000

238 The number of risk retention groups operating in the U.S. in 2007

Source: Risk Retention Reporter