Climate change

Tech companies Wuuii and ZestyAI enhance underwriting with risk evaluation capabilities.

New Zealand plans to introduce legislation before the end of the year that will create a framework to help communities and businesses adapt to the impacts of climate change.

The recovery of local governments and utilities from hurricanes Helene and Milton continues but the outlook for next season and beyond is troubling.

A round up of announcements and actions by the state's insurance regulator, a consumer advocate and an industry trade association.

The California-based insurtech uses AI-powered models and property-specific data to address all perils, including wildfire, severe convective storms and non-weather water.

After the California wildfires, other state governments are reacting to wildfire mitigation and related insurance coverage issues, proposing bills or announcing plans for action.

The state's insurance crisis, worsened by the L.A. wildfires, has people talking about measures including mitigating risk, price signaling and even moving residents out of risky areas.

The California State Assembly has introduced a bill to issue catastrophe bonds to shore up the state's last-resort property insurance, the FAIR Plan. Bonds would remove the burden of L.A. wildfire fallout from taxpayers, insureds and insurers. But analysts say a nationalized risk pool might be necessary.

To keep pace with emerging risks, insurers must carefully identify which technologies can truly mitigate risk and reduce losses.

Even the most-sophisticated scientific models fail to capture all the risk factors or properly account for the increasing impact of climate change.