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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 ...
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 ...
Update: LA Wildfire Insurance-Loss Estimates Approach $40 Billion
The cost of wildfires ravaging swaths of Los Angeles keeps rising, with new estimates of the total losses for the insurance industry now seen as high as $40 billion. The fresh figure Jan. 14 from ...
Mercury General Wildfire Losses Will Hit Reinsurance Cover. One Event?
Mercury General Corporation said it expects losses from wildfires burning in California since Jan. 7 to exceed its $150 million reinsurance retention, without providing a specific dollar estimate of ...
The Most Important 2025 Los Angeles Wildfire Stories; Latest Loss Estimates
As firefighters gain more control over what have become the most destructive wildfires in U.S. history in a matter of days, the scale of the destruction and losses is becoming clearer. Despite the ...
Significant But ‘Manageable’ Insurance Losses Expected From LA Fires: S&P
Insurers are facing significant losses from the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires—given the high value of homes and businesses in the affected communities. However, those losses are likely to be ...
Catastrophe Bond Funds Say They’ll Dodge Losses as LA Fires Rage
The wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles are unlikely to trigger significant losses for catastrophe bonds designed to capture such risks. Roughly 12 percent of the $50 billion cat-bond market is ...
Insured Losses From Los Angeles Wildfires Rising: $8B to $20B
With aerial firefighting returning as strong Southern California winds died down for a bit, damage assessments from a handful of destructive Los Angeles area blazes are sure to become ...