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A recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California found additionally that 60% were very concerned, a remarkable ...
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with economist Howard Kunreuther, co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Process Center, about climate change's impact on the insurance industry.
A recent report from the CFA reveals a steep rise in homeowners' insurance premiums, which jumped 24% between 2021 and 2024, ...
Across the country, premiums are rising and insurers are pulling out of markets that are most at risk for climate ...
As climate change leads to more frequent and destructive natural disasters, homeowners living in high risk areas are facing obstacles to affordable insurance. Full Episode Thursday, Jul 17 ...
Climate change is turning the home insurance market on its head. Many news and trade publications including the Insurance Information Institute, The Economist, New York Times, Seattle Times and ...
A recent poll by Ipsos found that 90% of Democrats report being concerned about climate change, compared to 34% of Republicans, many of whom live in disaster-prone states like Florida and Texas.
Climate change is buffeting the insurance market, but it’s also exacerbating longstanding imbalances in the system. Given the impact of climate change, ...
Insurance rates in California have been slowly ticking up for years, though climate change isn't the only driving factor, according to Meredith Fowlie, a professor of agricultural and resource ...
For some, however, the insurance industry’s climate change wake-up call may serve as a corrective. “It’s really made me think about leaving Berkeley,” Wolf said.
“Climate change makes the historical record of extreme weather an unreliable indicator of the current risk,” says Stephen Pacala, a board member at Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd. and a ...