Napa Valley earthquake Archives - Carrier Management

RMS Reflects on the 2014 Catastrophe Risk Landscape

For the insurance industry, 2014 was not a year of big losses. However, look more closely and you will see a string of near misses and important reminders of the forces that can wreak destruction and ...

RMS: Napa Valley Quake Insured Losses Won’t Surpass $250M

With some time to assess the situation, insured losses from the Napa Valley earthquake may end up a little more reasonable than initially thought. Catastrophe modeling firm RMS predicted that insured ...

Why Many Californians Take Their Chances Without Earthquake Insurance

During Sunday's 6.0 magnitude earthquake, some $75,000 worth of bottles of wine, rum and whiskey flew off the shelves of Aiyaz Masani's liquor store in Napa, California. He estimates about half his ...

Napa Quake Making Municipal-Bond Investors Nervous

Municipal-bond investors are trading a record amount of debt from Napa County, California, in a sign that some may be concerned about damage from the strongest earthquake to hit the wine-growing area ...

Post-Quake Napa Rushes to Deal With Damage

Wineries and hospitality businesses in and around Napa, California, near the epicenter of the worst earthquake to hit the area in 25 years, rushed to clean up rubble and broken glass ahead of the ...

EQECAT: Napa Valley Quake Insured Losses Could Reach $1B or More

The magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck Napa Valley and the San Francisco Bay area of California could end up causing between $500 million and $1 billion of insured losses or more, according an ...