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Viewpoint: Closing the Gap on Insurance to Value

In April 2022, a fire broke out in a Walmart distribution center in Plainfield, Indiana. The fire burned for more than three days, all of the approximately 1,000 employees got out safely and the facility remains closed. Occasionally we’ll see …

Wildfire Took Your Home? Don’t Count on Insurance: Viewpoint

Own a home? No doubt you’ve insured it. Very sensible of you. But if that home were, say, burned to the ground, then your insurance company probably wouldn’t cover the cost of rebuilding it. Don’t feel too bad, though. It’s …

Property Replacement Costs on the Rise: Xactware

Replacement costs increased by more than five percent between April 2014 and 2015, said Greg Pyne, assistant vice president of Pricing Data Services at Xactware, a Verisk Insurance Solutions company. Pyne outlined the factors that influence reconstruction costs during a …

Risk of Hurricane Storm Surge Damage Threatens 6.5M U.S. Homes

CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, released its 2014 storm surge analysis featuring estimates on both the number and reconstruction value of single-family homes exposed to hurricane-driven storm surge risk within the United States. According to …