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Verisk says AI will turbo charge physics-based models and Anthropic flags bio catastrophe risk.
Also, investors double down on private credit scrutiny and a new law looks to crack catastrophe model data.
As California weighs sweeping reforms to its wildfire liability system, multiple industries are maneuvering to shape and profit from the state’s next catastrophe backstop.
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Texas spreads its windstorm model risk while California's wildfires become economically existential.
Also: the one issue that Democrats and Republican's can agree on is wildfire modeling.
This week connects two worlds of modeling: how private credit is reshaping insurer balance sheets to how AI and physics are redefining how we understand physical risk.
FEMA says it was unlikely that the “president would ever declare a major disaster for extreme heat.”
"Reinsurers are not particularly good at anticipating long-term trends correctly."
Capital growth boosts US insurer catastrophe capacity to record levels
CEA signals quake change, wildfire models fall short.
