Opinion

Affordable Wildfire Insurance in California: An Impossible Dream?

Thoughts from the Editor’s keyboard; There’s a perfect storm of risks in California and a fundamental societal reset is required before property owners in California can insure their homes against wildfires. Even the super rich […]

News

DBRS Morningstar Comments on Los Angeles Wildfires

Some initial thoughts from DBRS Morningstar on the L.A area wildfires and the potential insured losses; Wildfires currently burning in the Pacific Palisades, Eaton, Hurst and other Los Angeles neighborhoods will cause significant losses for […]

News

California Wildfires: Insurance Commissioner Offers Statement

The statement from Commissioner Lara after the devastating wildfires seen in California; Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced an impending action to protect communities affected by the wildfires in Los Angeles County following Governor Newsom’s emergency […]

Insurance Regulation

Zesty AI Helping Insurers Meet California’s 180 Day Wildfire Deadline

Can we predict wildfires in terms of severity, direction and intensity? Maybe. What we do know, or can qualify using data, is the asset value of property in the path of a blaze. That, plus […]

Global insurance trends

Zesty.ai Expands Partnership With BHHC

Zesty.ai, the leader in property analytics powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), and The Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies (BHHC) recently announced that they have expanded their partnership. BHHC is extending the use of Zesty.ai’s AI-powered wildfire risk […]

Opinion

Let’s Separate Claims Costs From Climate Agenda Politics

Straight up catastrophe claims fact-checking from the Editor’s keyboard; A series of winter storms in Europe, unprecedented flooding in Australia and South Africa as well as a high number of thunderstorms in the US and […]

Emerging Risk

RMS Release USA Wildfire Risk Modelling Tools & Analytics

Recently RMS announced the release of the RMS U.S. Wildfire High Definition (HD) Model, which they claim is the only model solution available to equip the industry with the latest data and science, to enable accurate […]