Wildfires

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.

Insights from Clyde & Co, Climate X and Innsure.

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.

This attorney walks LA employers through what they need to get on the road to financial recovery.

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

It's not an unthinkable notion. There have been a handful of attempts at systematically moving populations away from regions severely affected by climate change.

The current LA wildfires have proven costly compared to the previous worst wildfires in U.S. history.

The Los Angeles wildfires are an unmissable signal for investors to back startups aimed at mitigating and preventing similar disasters in the future, according to venture capitalist Bill Clerico.

Mark Debus, clinical manager of behavioral health at Sedgwick explains some of the reactions people are likely to experience as they process the impact of the LA wildfires.