Risk
The Latest LA Wildfire Loss Estimates: Verisk’s Range Is $28B-$35B
The Extreme Event Solutions group at Verisk has estimated that insured industry losses to property for the Palisades and Eaton fires together will fall between $28 billion and $35 billion. Verisk's ...
California Years Behind in Implementing Defensible Space Law
Reeling from destructive wildfires, including the deadliest in California history, state lawmakers in 2020 passed new requirements for clearing combustible materials like dead plants and wooden ...
Mercury General Gives Reinsurance Update: One or Two Events Still TBD
Mercury General provided updated information about its reinsurance program yesterday, reporting that whether losses from the Palisades and Eaton wildfires burning in California will be treated as one ...
Rapid Response Effort Initiated to Respond to Fraud After Wildfires
As wildfires continue to burn in Southern California, the state has ramped up fraud investigations to keep up with an uptick in crimes. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and Los Angeles County ...
Many Reasons Behind Certain Homes Left Standing After Wildfires
Emails and videos of burned buildings in Los Angeles next to those left standing have been flying back and forth among architects, builders and fire safety specialists around the world. For many ...
Moody’s RMS Adds to LA Fires Insured Loss Estimates With Range of $20B-$30B
A day after risk modeler CoreLogic put out a statement indicating a $35 to $45 billion range of insured losses for two major fires in California, Moody's RMS has published a lower range for five ...
Study Shows Some Buildings Along Miami Coastline Are Sinking
A study published last month revealed that 35 buildings along a Florida coastline are experiencing subsidence, a process where the ground sinks or settles, according to researchers at the University ...
Smoke, Coverage Issues Cloud Wildfire Forecast: $35-$45B Losses Insured
CoreLogic announced a preliminary range of insured loss estimates for the Eaton and Palisades Fires in Los Angeles, Calif., of $35 to $45 billion, but there are a lot of factors that could change the ...