Articles by Don Jergler

Actuaries Index: Extreme Climate Conditions Hit New High in Winter 2019-20

A multiyear trend of increasing climate condition measurements from the U.S. and Canada hit a new high in winter 2019-2020, according a new Actuaries Climate Index released this week. The quarterly data’s key metric of a seasonal five-year moving average …

Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Embroker’s Samuels Says Diving in Was Key to Success

Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips for …

The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Adds Newfront’s Merrick in California

The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Melissa Merrick director of agency integration and onboarding. She is located in the Los Angeles, Calif., office. Merrick will be heading up the agency partners and producer integration and onboarding team. She was …

Last Year Was Among Earth’s 3 Hottest Years on Record, Climate Report Shows

Last year will be remembered as among the world’s hottest, while greenhouse gases reached their highest levels on record, according to the 30th annual State of the Climate report. The international annual review of the world’s climate, led by scientists …

California Bill Addressing Property Rates in Wildfire-Prone Areas Awaits Hearing

The stage has been set for a major battle over a California bill due to be heard in the next few weeks in a key committee that opponents say is a direct attack on insurance consumer protections and proponents say …

Report Holds Optimistic Virus Recovery View for Cannabis Industry

A new report out examining how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the U.S. cannabis industry shows consumer purchasing spiked, dropped, then started to stabilize in the time between when things began to unravel for the nation in March until recently. In …

Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Flux’s Prince Sees Greatest Value in Being an Advisor

Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips for …

Climate Risk Analytics Firm Gets Capital Injections from Liberty and MS&AD

Jupiter, a Silicon Valley startup provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk, announced it has raised additional capital from insurers Liberty Mutual and MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, and SYSTEMIQ, a sustainable economic systems firm. Jupiter, which declined to …

Report Holds Optimistic COVID-19 Recovery View of Cannabis Industry

A new report out examining how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the U.S. cannabis industry shows consumer purchasing spiked, dropped, then started to stabilize in the time between when things began to unravel for the nation in March until recently. In …

Another Specialty Broker Begins Selling Pandemic Insurance Coverage

A Newport Beach, Calif.-based specialty broker believes that now is the best time to start offering pandemic insurance. Elite Risk Insurance, which specializes in bespoke risk, is offering Pandemic Outbreak with COVID-19 Relapse coverage with limits from $2 million to …