Revisiting California’s Wildfires: A Personal Journey April 21, 2025 By Russ Banham PART TWO OF A TWO-PART SERIES In this second article in a two-part series, Journalist Russ Banham endeavors to better...
An Insurance Journalist’s Perspective on Southern California’a Wildfires April 7, 2025 By Russ Banham PART ONE OF A TWO-PART SERIES It was pitch black in the house and the power was off. The Santa...
Mixed Bag: What Trump 2.0 Tariffs, DOGE Activities Mean For Insurers January 2, 2025 By Russ Banham Setting aside the populist flavor of his campaign rhetoric, Donald J. Trump’s previous service as the nation’s 45th president presents...
This Insurance Would Have Helped in Coronavirus Crisis But Nobody Bought It April 3, 2020 By Russ Banham Like everyone else, Peter Lacovara is coping with COVID-19, working at home to limit contagion to the coronavirus and stay...
Insurer Innovation Comes Under the Rating Agency Microscope July 22, 2019 By Russ Banham Underway for some time now, the disruption of the insurance industry has moved into a new phase, following the announcement...
Extraordinary Re’s Extraordinary Idea for Trading Insurance Risks Like Stocks August 15, 2018 By Russ Banham Imagine there’s a way for institutional investors to trade insurance risks much like they trade stocks. Well, imagine no more....
Catastrophe Bonds – A to Z August 7, 2018 By Russ Banham A reader of this publication, the president of an insurance agency, recently wrote to say he kept hearing about catastrophe...