Why El Niño’s Promise of Quieter Hurricane Season May Not Be Good News for Insurers July 27, 2026 By Niket Nishant, Ashitha Shivaprasad and Manya Saini For insurers, the periodic El Niño climate phenomenon has traditionally lowered the risk of costly Atlantic hurricanes, but decades of...
20 Years After Hurricane Katrina: Are Insurers Ready for a Different $100B Disaster? July 14, 2026 By Jessica Boyd and Daniel Bannister On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of...
CSU Lowers Atlantic Hurricane Forecast to ‘Well Below Normal’ July 9, 2026 By Chad Hemenway Thanks to a strengthening El Nino, the rest of the Atlantic hurricane season will be well below normal, said researchers...
Viewpoint: Why Florida Property Insurance Rates Might (and Might Not) Keep Falling June 30, 2026 By John Rollins Editor’s note: As some national news reports continue to claim that Florida’s property insurance crisis has endured and premiums keep...
CSU Adjusts Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Due to Emerging El Nino June 10, 2026 By Ezra Amacher The growing likelihood of an El Nino to emerge this summer has led Colorado State University hurricane researchers to slightly...
Natural-Disaster Insurance Gap Now Exceeds $420 Billion Globally June 3, 2026 By Laura Millan The value of uninsured natural-catastrophe losses rose more than 7% globally last year to $424 billion, with North America the...
Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Milder Than Normal Thanks to El Nino May 26, 2026 By Seth Borenstein A developing El Nino that is forecast to get quite strong will likely dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but...
World Bank Prices $200 Million Catastrophe Bond for Jamaica May 19, 2026 By Gautam Naik The World Bank has priced a new catastrophe bond designed to help Jamaica cope with the threat of hurricanes. The...
A Quieter Hurricane Season This Year Could Still Pummel the US Power Grid May 7, 2026 By Eric Roston Meteorologists are forecasting about 13 named Atlantic storms this season, or a little less activity than average. That sounds like...
Worsening Ocean Heat Waves Are ‘Supercharging’ Hurricane Damage, Study Finds April 13, 2026 By Seth Borenstein Marine heat waves are supercharging damage caused by hurricanes and tropical cyclones across the globe, a new study found. Researchers...