California Plans $536M for Wildfire Mitigation Before Fire Season April 14, 2021 By Don Thompson California will authorize $536 million for wildfire mitigation and forest management projects before the worst of the fire season strikes...
82 Homes Impacted by Hawaii Rain and Flooding March 23, 2021 Three homes were destroyed in heavy rains and flooding last week, the Honolulu Department of Emergency reported. The department collected...
Homeowners’ Suit of Reno Over Flooding Now in U.S. Court March 11, 2021 Dozens of residents who are suing the city of Reno over the flooding of their homes in 2017 are moving...
Florida’s TypTap Attracts $100M to Expand Nationally in Flood, Homeowners Insurance March 2, 2021 TypTap, a five-year old Florida-based writer of private market homeowners and flood insurance, has attracted $100 million in financing from...
California Commissioner Wants Rate Transparency Rules for Wildfire Risk February 23, 2021 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has proposed new rules to give homeowners and businesses open access to their properties’ wildfire...
Insurers Expect ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Claims from Texas Storm February 19, 2021 By Suzanne Barlyn U.S. property insurers are bracing for claims for damage from collapsing roofs, bursting pipes and lost business as Texas takes...
Winter Storm Uri to Generate Billions in Insured Losses: Moody’s February 18, 2021 The massive winter storm that barreled through the mid-section of the United States and across the South in mid-February, hitting...
Most Oregonians Applying for Disaster Aid After 2020 Wildfires Denied February 16, 2021 More than 24,000 Oregonians applied for federal disaster assistance after the catastrophic 2020 wildfires and about 57% of them were...
California to Establish Home And Community Hardening Standards for Insurance February 8, 2021 By Don Jergler California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday announced a new partnership between the California Department of Insurance and Gov. Gavin...
Insurtech Hippo in Talks to Go Public via Merger With SPAC: Bloomberg February 7, 2021 By Gillian Tan, Katherine Chiglinsky, Sarah McBride and Katie Roof Hippo, an insurance technology startup, is in talks to go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company,...