Catastrophe Bonds’ Huge Market Gains Put Reinsurers on Backfoot October 21, 2025 By Gautam Naik The seemingly unstoppable rise of catastrophe bonds may now be eroding the market share of reinsurers. After years of raising...
Natural Disaster Claims in 2025 to Again Top $100B Despite ‘Abnormally Low’ Q3 Events October 16, 2025 By L.S. Howard Gallagher Re estimates global insured losses from natural catastrophes during the first nine months of 2025 will hit $105 billion,...
The World Is Far More Ablaze Now With Damaging Fires Than In 1980s, Study Shows October 10, 2025 By Seth Borenstein Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of...
Man Charged With ‘Maliciously’ Starting Destructive LA Wildfire October 8, 2025 By Myles Miller and Patricia Hurtado Federal authorities arrested a 29-year-old man on charges that he intentionally started the blaze that days later became the Palisades...
Edison to Open LA Fire Compensation Applications by Thanksgiving September 24, 2025 By Will Wade and Michelle Ma Edison International expects to begin accepting applications “well before” Thanksgiving to compensate victims of the deadly Eaton Fire that destroyed...
The Future of Flood-Fighting Is Being Charted in Hong Kong September 12, 2025 By Mary Hui Two years ago, extreme rainfall inundated Hong Kong, submerging cars and flooding malls. When another round of record rains drenched...
When Is A Home Safe After Wildfire Smoke? LA Researchers Have Some Answers September 11, 2025 By Emma Court At a church parking lot near Los Angeles, two hazmat-suit-clad workers vacuumed and wiped most of the contents of Elle...
US Property Insurance Costs Reach New High as Disasters Worsen September 8, 2025 By Alexandre Rajbhandari The cost of property insurance in the U.S. rose to an all time-high in the first half of the year,...
Insured Losses in Texas Exceeded $47 Billion in 2024 September 8, 2025 Insured losses exceeded $47.2 billion in Texas last year—a 4.2% increase over 2023, according to a new property/casualty market report...
Maryland Moves to Deny Liability Limit Sought by Ship Manager in Key Bridge Collapse September 5, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson The manager of the cargo ship that caused the collapse of Baltimore’s Key Bridge in March 2024 should be denied...