Where it can rain, it can flood
Where it can rain, it can flood

Cloudy With a Chance of Super El Niño The only thing scarier than seeing halloween decorations up in stores this early is the report that all 50 states can expect a 90% chance of being impacted by a SUPER El Niño. So when the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, ABC7 and LAist ask…
Climate Change Exposes a Major Home Insurance Gap
Climate Change Exposes a Major Home Insurance Gap

A year after the Los Angeles wildfires, many survivors face the same problem: Their insurance policies aren’t paying out enough to cover the cost of rebuilding. It’s a tragic predicament. And it will happen again when the next disaster hits. Since the 1990s, American homes…
Climate’s unsolicited payout
Climate’s unsolicited payout

Rising weather extremes is destabilising the insurance industry, driving up premium prices and pushing insurers out of high-risk markets. The crisis is also spurring re-invention of insurance sector Probability is business-critical for the insurance industry. The insurer applies the “probability” factor to assess and value…
Climate-driven insurance crisis
Climate-driven insurance crisis

The climate crisis is costing us a lot of money — higher utility bills, higher health-care costs, skyrocketing housing prices in some areas and nosediving home property values in others. Climate change, as well as the pollution that causes it and the natural disasters caused…
Rising Climate Risks Prompt Surge In Home Insurance Costs
Rising Climate Risks Prompt Surge In Home Insurance Costs

Homeowners face mounting challenges as insurers tighten policies and increase rates nationwide. With climate change increasingly influencing weather-related disasters, the home insurance market is feeling the heat. From skyrocketing premiums to properties being dropped by insurers, the consequences of more frequent hurricanes, wildfires, and floods…
Climate change is worsening the insurance crisis. Some states have solutions
Climate change is worsening the insurance crisis. Some states have solutions

The devastating Los Angeles fires have been a grim reminder of America’s homeowners insurance crisis as climate change intensifies potential property damage and insurers scramble to price rising risk. Consider: From 2000 to about 2013, insurance costs made up 7% to 8% of the typical…
Climate change, extreme weather are driving up homeowners’ insurance rates in Chicago and beyond
Climate change, extreme weather are driving up homeowners’ insurance rates in Chicago and beyond

Allstate customers in Illinois could see their homeowners’ policies go up more than 14% in a few months. Allstate representatives said these increases in the Chicago area are not specifically related to the wildfires in California — a subject for which concerns about insurance claims…
Frustrated About Insurance Denials? You’re Not Alone.
Frustrated About Insurance Denials? You’re Not Alone.

My book “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It” was thrust into the spotlight recently after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed last month in what authorities say was a targeted attack. Investigators at the scene…
Insuring your home has never been harder. Here’s how to do it.
Insuring your home has never been harder. Here’s how to do it.

Christina Temple moved to Truckee, California, to buy her first home. The small mountain town, a short drive from Lake Tahoe, offered the former preschool teacher and her husband, a carpenter, a shot at becoming middle class by escaping crushing housing costs near Santa Cruz,…
New insurance insights from second series forum hosted by Center for California Real Estate
New insurance insights from second series forum hosted by Center for California Real Estate

LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The California Dept. of Insurance and other industry leaders gathered last week to continue statewide conversations around insurance challenges at the forum, “Securing California’s Insurance Market: The Path Forward,” hosted by the Center for California Real Estate.…
Home listings now come with their climate risks—and the results are terrifying
Home listings now come with their climate risks—and the results are terrifying