Property and casualty insurance

A California realtors group reportedly pressured the real estate site to stop displaying climate risk scores for homes. The private provider of the scores defended the quality of its models and ratings, while consumer advocates called for standardized, publicly available climate risk data about homes for buyers.

A paper published Tuesday in the Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience estimates that Risk Rating 2.0, FEMA's 2021 update, resulted in up to 13% of those facing the highest premium increases dropping their policies.

Organization of state regulators, criticized for lack of disclosure of its previous collected data, promises to gather new information on losses, claims payments, policy premiums and mitigation discounts.

2025 Women in Insurance Leadership honoree Sarah Griffin, is SVP, product & underwriting at Nationwide.

Parametric providers can notify policyholders when an event triggers a claim, which can then be processed in days, helping customers get back to business more quickly.

A senior advisor at NAIC, the association of state insurance regulators, told attendees of its fall meeting that the imminent FEMA Review Council report should answer questions about funding for disaster relief and flood insurance, as well as other related issues.

Experts suggest the industry is continuing to focus on innovation.

Under fire from consumer advocates after failures of new home insurers in the state, the ratings agency says its scores are meant to show an insurer's current health, and prospects for a maximum of one year. Reinsurance and the insurer's choice of policies being taken from the insurer of last resort can cause problems that surface later.

There were about 50 funding events in the insurtech sector in November 2025.

Amanda Smith is currently the chief product officer, home for Plymouth Rock Assurance.

For years, academics and brokers have discussed whether cat bonds could do more than just clean up after disasters.

The Office of Insurance Regulation and three advocacy groups paint conflicting pictures of insurance affordability, coverage availability and claims handling.

The Travelers Institute provided insights into the evolution of property insurance and how tech has impacted the industry, in a webinar held Nov. 12, 2025.

Representatives of the insurance industry called the proposal too speculative and prescriptive, while consumer and environmental advocates say it doesn't go far enough.

The insurer's 32-page regulatory filing for the increase, implemented in July, claims a 19 cent loss for every dollar in home insurance premiums collected – based on a catastrophe loss estimate given without further details or documentation.

A rare thing is about to happen in the $55 billion market for catastrophe bonds: a trigger event will wipe out 100% of a bond's principal.

Data and insights from Aon, Verisk and Cotality.

The insured costs of Hurricane Melissa's damages to onshore property in Jamaica now range between $2.2 billion and $4.2 billion, according to data firm Verisk Analytics Inc.

Hurricane Melissa thrashed Cuba, unleashing landslides and flooding in the nation's second-largest city.

The dangerous storm was about 50 miles south-southeast of Negril, Jamaica, at the western tip of the island, the US National Hurricane Center said in an 9 a.m. New York time update.