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Life Reinsurer Puts Its Mortality Book Against a Cancer Test the FDA Hasn't Approved
Kalshi Wants Weather Company to Settle Prediction Markets’ Trust Problem
Florida’s Push to Privatize Hurricane Risk Is Fueling the Global Cat-Bond Boom
Private insurers absorbing Citizens policies have grown from a marginal presence to a persistent source of catastrophe-bond demand.
Insurers Warn California: Don’t Put Utility Wildfire Risk on Our Balance Sheets
Space Weather Models May Be Measuring the Wrong Risk
A new model of solar-storm risk exposes a fundamental problem: the metric used to measure the hazard may not capture the forces that actually cause trillions of dollars in physical losses.
Washington Rewrites Risk Models
Also, flood aid may do more than finance reconstruction and inadequate insurance do not necessarily push homeowners away from growing physical risk.
AI Backlash Is Reopening Insurers’ “Price Optimization” Fight
California’s Wildfire Finance Fight Has Reached the Final Boss
Utilities, insurers and investors are battling over who absorbs California’s next catastrophic wildfire loss—as the AI data-center boom raises the stakes.
The Basis Is the Risk
The next pandemic is getting cheaper to model and create.
Climate Risk Is Jumping From an Insurance Crisis Into a Homeowner Crisis
New research traces how climate-driven insurance non-renewals can jump from insurer balance sheets into mortgage defaults, falling home values and weaker local economies.
Risk Is Becoming Political
Also, modeling the increasing risk of food illness outbreaks