Wildfire Emergencies “Siskiyou County residents have endured wildfire emergencies over the past three years and protecting their insurance is essential to recovery.” — California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara in mid-August ordered insurers to preserve residential insurance coverage for 8,500 affected …
California Wildfires “Homeowners should not have to scramble to find fire insurance while suffering the effects of a wildfire.” — California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, explaining his order to insurers to preserve residential insurance coverage for the county of Mariposa …
Colorado Flash Flood “The threshold for flash flooding is pretty low up there because of the soils in the burn scar. One to two inches of rain in an hour is plenty sufficient to cause problems.” — Frank Cooper, a …
Justice Breach “Given the sensitive nature of the data exposed and potential impact to those directly involved, I would expect a response in much less than 24 hours from notification to action.” — Tim Marley, a vice president for risk …
Can’t Stop the Blizzards “Dairy Queen introduced no evidence of an actual association between the two products. … If association were to occur, in all likelihood, it would have occurred by now.” — St. Paul, Minnesota-based U.S. District Judge Susan …
Greenwashing “When I think about greenwashing: Every company that is declaring themselves, that [their] company is going to be net zero — that sounds great in the beginning … If it’s just vague words, there are going to be a …
Perfect Storm “A perfect storm of record-high replacement costs, increased frequency and severity of collisions, and an economic outlook that suggests this situation won’t change anytime soon is forcing a major industry disruption.” — Marty Ellingsworth, executive managing director of …
Bird Flu Crisis “Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, here comes the bird flu.” — Karyn Rispoli, an egg market reporter at commodity researcher Urner Barry, said about the bird flu virus sweeping across the U.S. The …
Abuse of the Court System “There is a good argument here that these companies don’t have any business in bankruptcy.” — Patrick Jackson, a restructuring lawyer with Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath based in Delaware, said about the Chapter 11 …
Girl Scouts v. Boy Scouts “This case boils down to a single question: must the Boy Scouts continue to use the word ‘Boy’ in its name now that it has become a co-ed institution.” — U.S. District Judge Alvin K. …
