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  • Insurers warned about AI's long tail risks

    07 October 2024

    Cyber market is beginning to respond, say participants

  • AM Best flags further worsening in cost and availability for Californian property cover

    12 February 2024

    Using historic data for pricing increasingly "unwise" as new climatic paradigm emerges

  • The golden state becomes too hot to handle

    24 January 2022

    Property catastrophe losses in California have soared, with the result that insurers increasingly don't want to underwrite there. Could this be the beginning of a withdrawal from cat perils in other US states? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • California wildfires could cost insurers even more this year

    12 July 2021

    AM Best says this year's wildfire season is about a month ahead of schedule

  • Cannabis insurance: ending the bad trip

    05 December 2019

    Conflicting state and federal laws, uncertain pricing and novel risks have discouraged most insurers from participating in the cannabis market so far. But as the US edges nearer to federal legalisation, this could change. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Hurricane Michael: KCC estimates almost $8bn insured loss

    12 October 2018

    Nearly half of insured loss estimated to have occurred in two Florida counties – Bay and Gulf.