Risk
AI Risks, Climate And Legislation Lead Verisk’s Emerging Issues Bracket
Collegiate teams that competed in the men's and women's basketball tournaments turned heads in March. Now, we're hearing about topics that made it to the final rounds of Verisk's recent emerging ...
Agents Must Take the Lead on Personal Cyber Coverage, Report Says
While major corporate cyber hacking makes the news nearly every day, what about hackers in homes? As personal lives and residences become more intertwined with the internet, consumers are at greater ...
California vs. Florida: A Tale of Two Insurance Markets
Until recently, homeowners insurers weren't allowed to use catastrophe models to justify needed rate increases, or to include the cost of reinsurance in their rate indications in the state of ...
Why FEMA Keeps Denying Disaster Preparedness Aid to States
The Trump administration is increasingly skipping a form of federal disaster aid that helps states better prepare for future storms, flooding and wildfires. The Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
Wildfire Season Preview: Rest of 2025 Is High-Risk, May Follow LA Wildfires Paradigm
Following the "paradigm-shifting" Los Angeles wildfires in January, the 2024-2025 wildfire season will be remembered as a turning point for the insurance industry, and a warning that "wildfire is no ...
Mercury Insurance’s Climate Science Team Aims to Say ‘Yes’ to High-Risk Areas
Mercury Insurance, headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., appointed Steve Bennett as its senior director of climate and catastrophe science. In this new position, Bennett will build and lead a team ...
Whole Foods Supplier Hack Leaves Empty Shelves, Stalls Forklifts
United Natural Foods Inc., a grocery distributor for Amazon Inc.'s Whole Foods Market, is working to bring systems back online by June 15 and resume product deliveries after a cyberattack disrupted ...
Selling the Right to Sue
Having already paid out billions of dollars in claims related to the Eaton fire, more than 100 insurers have filed lawsuits against Southern California Edison to recoup these costs, alleging the ...