In 2005 Boulder Claims was formed to provide comprehensive claims services on all claims from policies underwritten by ICAT, and other select partners. Boulder Claims has processed over 12,000 catastrophe claims, paid out over $1B and handled 13 catastrophe events.
The source of the wind is the sun. The winds come from the suns energy falling on the earth's surface. This will last as long as the sun continues, and so is renewable for practical purposes into the distant future.
One supposed origin is that the phrase derives from mythology. Dogs and wolves were attendants to Odin, the god of storms, and sailors associated them with rain. Witches, who often took the form of their familiars-cats, are supposed to have ridden the wind.