Climate change

California governor's executive order tasks insurance regulator and other state agencies to make recommendations on mitigating wildfires, insurance affordability and availability, expediting insurance claims and more.

New law, SB 429, California Wildfire Public Catastrophe Model Act, depends on the state's university system and its resources to check insurers' and regulators' risk modeling.

A tech firm is expanding the possibility of electric-grid forecasting by offering hourly projections of US power demand seven months into the future.

Many businesses are overlooking the full extent of their climate risk, even after they've experienced the impacts of more extreme weather first-hand.

Larger states are more likely to have funds for prevention of natural disasters and responses to these events, says Chip Merlin, an attorney who represented Hurricane Katrina survivors.

The report, cowritten by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber's foundation, predicts job losses and lost economic activity, but sees prevention potential from public-private partnerships.

California sellers of older homes in high-risk areas must disclose to potential buyers not only a dwelling's susceptibility to fire but what they've done to address those vulnerabilities.

The home insurer's objections to an in-person public hearing with regulators are dismissed by a California administrative judge, along with efforts to separate and postpone wildfire claim handling complaints from the rate hearings.

Neptune Insurance filed for an IPO showing growing revenue for the flood insurance company.

A Category 5 hurricane could lead to more than $200 billion in damage, Moody's Analytics said in a report released before the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.