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U.S. P/C Insurers’ See Slump in Shares as Hurricane Season Losses Mount
U.S. property and casualty insurance stocks tanked on Monday after Hurricane Milton intensified into a category 4 storm on its path towards Florida's western coast, marking yet another costly ...
Hurricane Milton Barrels Toward Florida With 165 MPH Winds
Milton, the Atlantic's strongest hurricane this year, is set to approach the Florida peninsula as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, bearing down on a region still struggling to recover from Helene's ...
The Latest Hurricane Helene Insured Loss Estimates: Totals Move Higher
Early estimates of Hurricane Helene U.S. private insurance market losses in the $5 billion to $10 billion range have moved up higher in recent days, with Moody's RMS offering the latest estimates of ...
Where Are the Private Insurers? Analyses Highlight U.S. Flood Gap
Two new analyses—one from a risk modeler estimating insured damages from Hurricane Helene, and the other from a rating agency about flood insurance penetration and profitability—highlight the ...
Nation’s Flood Insurance Program Is Making More Repeat Payouts
When Hurricane Helene barreled ashore last week, it caused devastating flooding across the southeastern U.S., including in the Shore Acres area of St. Petersburg, Fla. The neighborhood saw 6 feet of ...
Hospitals Seen as Potential Growth Area for Litigation Financing
The litigation-financing industry could see new demand from an increase in health care lawsuits, according to Christopher Bogart, chief executive officer of litigation funder Burford Capital Ltd. ...
Florida Readies for Major Hurricane Milton
Florida prepared on Sunday for its largest evacuation since 2017 as Hurricane Milton intensified in the Gulf of Mexico on its path toward the U.S. state's western coast, coming on the heels of the ...
One-Third of Global Population at Risk for Floods: Moody’s
A new white paper from Moody's reveals that 2.7 billion people — more than one-third of the global population — live in areas vulnerable to inland or coastal flooding. Moody's estimates that ...