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More than 3 million New York metropolitan-area homes are vulnerable to hurricane winds, the most of any region in the country, according to a report from Cotality, a property analytics firm.

Weather extremes have wheat farmers reaching for their phones to ring their insurance adjusters to assess the viability of their crops.

The loss of land to the sea in southern Louisiana over the next few decades places more than 1 million people in harm's way, the academics say.

Typhoon activity in the Northwest Pacific Ocean is expected to be the highest this year since 2015, according to commercial forecaster Tropical Storm Risk.

Safepoint Holdings Inc., an underwriter of specialty homeowners and commercial insurance, filed for an initial public offering, disclosing growing profit and revenue.

These secondary perils led to a combined $86 billion of insured losses in North America in 2025.

Nationwide and Whisker Labs share insights related to their partnership and the Ting sensor, which uses artificial intelligence to warn policyholders about potentially catastrophic events.

The insurance industry's research organization added 10 more states to the first four in its Wildfire Prepared Home designation program. About 35% of U.S. homes in high wildfire risk areas are not yet eligible.

It's the third year convective storm losses have exceeded $50 billion, according to the report, Severe Convective Storms: State of the Risk from The Insurance Information Institute.

Researchers examined more than 580,000 municipal bond issues and say the data shows communities with higher wildfire risk pay higher interest rates.

The U.S. accounted for 79% of global insured losses during the first quarter of this year, according to Aon's latest Global Catastrophe report.

A transatlantic team of brokers, underwriters and meteorologists devised a workaround to save Bad Bunny from losses: They installed a temporary weather station inside the stadium, linked to a bespoke policy that would pay out if rainfall exceeded a set threshold.

Regulators and policyholders are increasingly concerned about the impact of imagery on privacy and decision making.

Climate experts and insurance leaders discussed how the industry must treat extreme events not just with coverage, but also with technology, proactive mitigation and resilience, at the ClimateTech Connect conference.

Satellite data is reshaping the way that the insurance industry thinks about risk.

New research reveals severe storm effects such as hail, tornadoes and wind have reached $208 billion in global insured losses between 2023 and 2025.

Cotality's 2026 Severe Convective Storm Risk report reveals that underwriters can no longer rely on historical weather patterns to predict future losses.

For seven consecutive years, secondary perils have outpaced primary perils in driving aggregate insured losses globally.

Insurance companies have abandoned some California neighborhoods at lower risk of burning.

Insurers in Australia are urging legislators to set up a A$30 billion ($21.4 billion) flood defense fund as the nation grapples with surging costs from extreme weather events.