Content from Don Jergler
How Insurance Is Addressing Climate Change Risks
Insurers have come a long way on climate change, but they have a long way to get where we need to be to deal with a more hazardous planet. That was the assessment from Washington Insurance ...
Wildfire Fears at ‘All-Time High’ and Driving Insurer Decisions in Property Market: Gallagher Re
Despite a relatively average 2022 wildfire season, fears of wildfires remain at an "all-time high," and those fears appear to be one driver of decision-making on property ...
California Climate Bills Requiring Broad Disclosures Have National Implications
A pair of California bills requiring large companies to report emissions from across their supply chains and creating more stringent reporting of climate-related impacts ...
Climatic Hazards Aggravate Disease-Causing Pathogens, Scientists Warn
Here's something to think about after two years of living in a COVID-19 reality: More than 58 percent of human diseases caused by pathogens — think dengue, hepatitis, malaria, Zika — have been ...
Insurers Increasingly Concerned for Western U.S. Wildfire Season
As Western wildfires force evacuations in Arizona and California — on the heels of an early and severe wildfire season in New Mexico — insurers are increasingly eyeing the growing risks. ...
Activist Group Says U.S. Insurers Trying to Weaken Climate-Related Regulations
A number of businesses within the U.S. insurance sector are trying to weaken or delay emerging climate-related insurance regulation at federal and state levels, according to climate think tank ...
Report Forecasts ‘Above-Normal’ U.S. Wildfire Season, Worse in Drought-Plagued West
The U.S. has in store an "above-normal" wildfire season if a prediction out on Wednesday from fire weather experts holds true – "intense" may be a better word for the expectations in Western ...
Actuaries: Climate Change, More WUI Building Worsening U.S. Wildfires
Increasingly large and dangerous wildfires are being driven by the effects of climate change and more building in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), and while that notion may not be entirely new, ...