Tempering the Alarm on Sea Level Rise By Judy Curry For the next 30 years, we can expect the rates of global sea level rise to be similar to what we have seen in recent decades.
Headwinds Facing the ILS Market By Ted Blanch Insurance-linked securities provide an important source of capital for insurers and reinsurers, but their risks are being highlighted.
PG&E: We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore By Paul Carroll PG&E may be the first climate change bankruptcy, but it won't be the last. So, what do we do?
What PG&E Bankruptcy Means for the Rest of Us By Paul Carroll Why couldn't PG&E have seen the dangers of wildfires in advance? And where were the insurers?
Heading Toward a Data Disaster By Matthew Grant New catastrophe threats are emerging, to non-physical assets. The modeling tools of the last couple of decades are no longer sufficient.
Here Is How to Make Flood Insurance Work By Sean Harper With the NFIP expiring tomorrow, it's time to not only privatize flood insurance but to require that everyone get it.
How Do We Stop the Disasters? By Paul Carroll Can we somehow mitigate these wildfires, or are we doomed to endure them?
A Tough Lesson in Disaster Preparation By Haywood Marsh No matter how well one forecasts, plans and runs drills, the speed and scale with which crisis can hit seems to be increasing.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.