Several massive blazes have plagued Northern California this year, and now it could be Southern California’s turn. The Dixie and Caldor fires continue to do damage in Northern California, putting the state at more than 2.2 million acres burned this …
Zurich is deepening emissions cuts and adding green options for customers. Zurich Insurance Group announced this week it is “taking global measures” to accelerate cuts in carbon emissions from its operations in response to climate change. Measures include new air …
A broker hands an underwriter an application for a cannabis operation. No red flags so far, but then the underwriter takes a look for himself and finds a converted residence smack in the middle of a neighborhood, complete with minors …
It’s counterintuitive to run toward a fire, or any risk for that matter, but that mindest doesn’t seem to always hold. U.S. counties with the biggest proportions of homes facing high heat, drought, fire, flood and storm risk saw their …
If you ask just about any insurance pro or risk manager to list the top exposures for a company, being sued is likely to be right up there. And if you boiled that down into another list, among the greatest …
Six insurers have ruled out Arctic refuge drilling, according to a report out this week from the Gwich’in Steering Committee. The Gwich’in are the northernmost Indian Nation living in 15 villages scattered across an area from northeast Alaska to the …
Tennis was Marcio Pepe’s lead into insurance – and to success in the business – and it was a path laid years ago before he was an adult when he headed to the U.S. from Brazil to pursue the game …
When Tom Larsen thinks of the Dixie Fire in Northern California, he thinks about better modeling. Larsen, the senior director for content strategy for catastrophe modeler CoreLogic Inc., pointed to some grim facts about the ongoing Dixie blaze: It’s already …
It seems every week there are more and more cannabis mergers and acquisitions. And as these companies get and bigger bigger, so does their reach. When it’s all said and done, 2021 may have been the year of cannabis M&AS, …
The California Climate Insurance Working Group has released 40 state and local policy recommendations focused on reducing damage and improving recovery following a wildfire, extreme heat wave, or flood. The report “Protecting Communities, Preserving Nature, and Building Resiliency; How First-of-Its-Kind …
