6+ hour, 54+ min ago   (1497+ words) Florida lawmakers knew they had a billion-dollar insurance problem. Worried about who would be left to insure Floridians, the legislature passed laws in 2023 that changed the way property insurance works there. Three years since the laws went into effect, some…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (781+ words) As California’s wildfire insurance crisis drives homeowners to the state’s insurer of last resort, wealthy areas such as Beverly Hills, Malibu and Bel Air make up an increasingly large portion of the liability exposure — a dynamic that experts fear could…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (292+ words) After 20 years in homeowner claims, I’ve heard the same assumption so many times it’s practically folklore: older homes cost more to insure because repairs cost more. That’s not entirely wrong, but the real story is more specific — and more useful…...

3+ week, 23+ hour ago   (269+ words) Oklahoma’s attorney general sued Allstate Corp., alleging the insurer schemed to minimize payouts to homeowners for wind and hailstorm damage in order to boost its profits. The state’s top lawyer, Gentner Drummond, alleges that Allstate implemented an internal program to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (255+ words) Liberty Mutual Insurance and space intelligence firm ICEYE have partnered to launch a parametric wildfire insurance coverage that works with satellites. ICEYE said its satellites capture high-resolution imagery through smoke, at night, and in all weather conditions to generate uninterrupted…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (460+ words) The California Department of Insurance is taking action against State Farm over an investigation that reportedly shows the carrier has been mishandling insurance claims from the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. A CDI filing alleges violations of the Unfair Insurance Claims…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (471+ words) It’s been more than two years since I wrote an analysis based on Surplus Line Association of California insight and data for an Insurance Journal article forecasting that the state’s homeowners insurance market was entering a structural transition driven primarily…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (399+ words) The Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project has released a proposal for a federal reinsurance backstop called US Re to leverage federal borrowing capacity and stabilize the country’s homeowners insurance market. “Properly constructed, US Re could improve resilience while maintaining the benefits…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (526+ words) As another wildfire season looms, insurance companies have abandoned some California neighborhoods at lower risk of burning, forcing tens of thousands of homeowners to obtain bare-bones coverage from the state’s insurer of last resort. “What we’re seeing is that the…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (960+ words) The Los Angeles wildfires that kicked off 2025 not only sped up a statewide homeowners insurance market pullback, they also played a part in an ongoing reshaping of California’s surplus lines market, according to a new report. The state’s surplus lines…...