Weather risk

Travel insurance customers have long complained online about gotcha clauses and foot-dragging on claims.

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

A team of former Credit Suisse bankers is preparing to launch a fund they say will offer double-digit returns in exchange for taking on some of the insurance risk tied to data centers.

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.

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.

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

Investors in catastrophe bonds are seeing a decline, according to an analysis by reinsurer Swiss Re.

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Nvidia Corp. is offering new open-source software and models designed to help governments and businesses more easily use artificial intelligence and complex data to build their own weather forecasting systems.

U.S. homeowners are concerned about climate and insurance costs, according to Kin's Homeownership Trends Report.

According to Swiss Re, 83% of losses were driven by the United States' LA wildfires and severe convective storms.

The first time a significant catastrophe occurs, it's a black swan, and then it becomes part of the operating environment for risk management.

Matthew Porcelli, a meteorologist at The Weather Company, shares information about how weather data is necessary for insurance companies to provide information to policyholders.

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.

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.

Jay Koh, a private equity veteran and former Carlyle Group Inc. executive, says investors should be paying a lot more attention to the new economy forming around extreme weather.

Budget cuts at the federal disaster agency are forcing insurance carriers to rethink underwriting, reinsurance, and catastrophe modeling, and pivot accordingly.

Solar and wind energy companies protecting against climate-induced losses look to parametric insurance.