Wildfires

Hedge funds speculating on wildfire insurance claims in California were just dealt a legal blow.

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.

Five ways technologies and revised processes are helping insurance organizations better predict and protect.

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.

Digital Insurance stories related to insurance regulation.

More than six months after the LA catastrophe, officials have yet to complete regulations as wildfires burn across the state this week

California's insurance regulator and a consumer advocacy group continue battles over the funding of the state's home insurer of last resort, and other issues.

Damage claims from the Eaton wildfire could wipe out the $21 billion fund created to protect utilities and their customers when an investor-owned utility's equipment is deemed responsible.

An academic paper presented at the Brookings Institute's annual conference found that future wildfire risks are already having economically significant impacts on financial markets, municipal borrowing costs and vulnerable communities.