Australian Insurers Should Be Able to Withstand Mounting Bushfire Claims: AM Best January 27, 2020 Australian insurers are well-capitalized and should be able to withstand losses from the 2019/2020 bushfire season, aided by strong capital...
Bushfire-Ravaged Australians Face Choice in Era of Climate Change: Rebuild or Leave? January 23, 2020 By Sybilla Gross and Emily Cadman It took two years for Nigel Allison to build his mud-brick house on a sleepy southeastern tip of Australia, and...
Australia Begins Clean Up From Bushfires with Insurance Claims Continuing to Rise January 21, 2020 By Rebecca Jones The New South Wales and Victorian state governments will coordinate the clean-up of insured and uninsured residential and commercial properties...
Severe Storms Expected to Bring Relief, New Risks to Bushfire-Stricken Australia January 15, 2020 By Lidia Kelly Severe storms are expected to bring some relief in the coming days from huge bushfires scorching Australia but the heavy...
Climate Scientists Warn that Australia’s Bushfires Could Become the New Normal January 14, 2020 By Matthew Green Bushfires ravaging Australia have provided a foretaste of the kinds of conditions that could become normal unless the world moves...
Australia’s Bushfires Could Surpass 2009’s Costly Season; Analysts, Insurers Comment January 10, 2020 By L.S. Howard Australia’s bushfire season has months to run and could easily surpass the most costly fire season, 2009’s Black Saturday fires...
Australians Evacuate Their Homes as Soaring Temperatures, Winds Fan Bushfires January 10, 2020 By Colin Packham and Swati Pandey Australia urged nearly a quarter of a million people to evacuate their homes on Friday and prepared military backup as...
Insurance Industry Calls for Action to Mitigate Climate Risk as Australia Bushfires Widen January 8, 2020 By Emily Cadman As the devastation from Australia’s bushfires widens, the insurance industry is calling for concerted action to mitigate the impact of...
Update: Australia’s Firefighters Take Advantage of Cooler Weather to Help Quell Wildfires January 7, 2020 By Jason Gale Firefighters are taking advantage of cooler weather to quell southeastern Australia’s wildfires that have killed at least 24 people and...
Australia Sees No End to Unprecedented Wildfire Crisis January 6, 2020 By Jason Scott Exhausted firefighters welcomed cooler weather and patchy rain in blaze-ravaged southeastern Australia Monday after a calamitous few days, even as...