California Lawmakers File Wildfire Plan Axes Newsom Asks to Bar Insurers From Suing Utilities August 31, 2026 By Michelle Ma and Andrew Oxford California legislators introduced a bill Saturday that would update the state’s wildfire response without shifting liability away from publicly traded...
LA Fire Zone Set to Get $3 Million Homes Funded by Muni Bonds August 28, 2026 By John Gittelsohn and Andrew Oxford More than a year after wildfires devastated Pacific Palisades, a nonprofit is advancing a plan to tap the public debt...
Londoners Find ‘Horrendous’ Cracks in Their Homes After Successive Heat Waves August 25, 2026 By Gautam Naik Londoners are facing historic levels of subsidence risk after five successive heat waves dried out the clay soil on which...
A $100 Million Mall Reopening Is a Sign of LA’s Uneven Fire Recovery August 20, 2026 By John Gittelsohn There’s a flurry of construction in Pacific Palisades, more than a year and a half after a wildfire ravaged the...
Mortgage Servicer Paying $15.5 Million Settlement Over ‘Force Placed’ Insurance Costs August 18, 2026 One of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers is paying millions of dollars to settle charges it imposed insurance costs on...
Homeowners Insurance Market Reaches ‘Fragmented Phase,’ Says S&P GMI August 14, 2026 By Chad Hemenway New research from S&P Global Market Intelligence looks to suggest that homeowners insurers are reaching rate adequacy, but certain marketplace...
A Defensible Framework for Post-Wildfire Smoke Damage Claims August 13, 2026 By Brad Kovar In today’s wildland–urban interface (WUI) losses, the question is often more complex than simply “burned versus not burned.” An increasing...
Edison Judge Balks at Holding Utility Liable for LA Wildfire August 12, 2026 By Laura Curtis and Michelle Ma Insurance companies lost a bid to hold Edison International’s Southern California utility liable for a massive Los Angeles-area wildfire without...
Severe Thunderstorms Across US Midwest Trigger Flood Warnings August 11, 2026 By Brian K. Sullivan The U.S. Midwest and Ohio Valley, including Chicago and Cincinnati, face an enhanced, or level 3, risk of severe thunderstorms....
Arson Suspect Timed Spokane Fire for High Wind Day August 7, 2026 By Brian K. Sullivan The blaze was one of three that destroyed roughly 700 buildings and forced 70,000 people to evacuate earlier this week.