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Trump election unlikely to impact federal insurance regulation

US state commissioners saw modest turnover in elections

Patty Kuderer replaces Mike Kreidler as Washington insurance commissioner

Mike Kreidler: Attacks on the insurance industry for ESG policies are disappointing

Mike Kreidler, insurance commissioner for Washington state, talks about the impact of extreme weather events and new transparency rules in the state

Climate alliances crumbled by anti-woke politics

The unravelling of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance owes a lot to right-wing US politics, where ESG and climate action is seen as a threat to business, as Sarfraz Thind discovers

NAIC to issue redesigned climate survey as it defends progress

The US is pushing its insurers to match the efforts of European peers

Mandatory climate reporting to become the norm, says Kreidler

US climate disclosure survey is argued to be ahead of "more progressive nations"

Oil and gas: a soaring risk

After coal, the oil and gas sector is lining up to be the next focus of insurer divestment. But can US insurers really afford to chop this all-American sector from their businesses? Sarfraz Thind reports

California and Washington push for TCFD climate reporting for US

Insurance associations remain lukewarm on "resource intensive" standard

US flood insurance has been "an abject failure"

Insurance state commissioners debate need for nationwide climate change policies

Over half of US insurers lack climate change policy

Survey shows consistent gaps in climate change work by US insurance industry