Global Insured Catastrophe Losses Expected to Average $171 Billion Annually: Verisk September 1, 2026 By L.S. Howard The insurance industry should be prepared to withstand $171 billion in insured catastrophe losses, on average in a given year,...
Europe’s Credit Markets Shrug Off Climate Risks Despite Devastating Droughts August 27, 2026 By Selina Chen and Kat Hidalgo Severe droughts across Europe this summer led to huge wildfires, disrupted transport on critical routes, threatened power plants and hit...
Glacier Collapse Behind Nepal Flood Shows Region’s Climate Risk August 27, 2026 By Lili Pike and Laura Millan Scientists are pointing to a glacier collapse and rock landslide as the cause of a devastating flash flood that killed...
World Inches Toward Catastrophic Climate Events: ‘Bigger Shocks Are On the Way’ August 26, 2026 By Peter Prengaman In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with...
Viewpoint: When Andrew Returns – A Look Back at a Pivotal Insurance Event August 25, 2026 By David Delaney At five o’clock on the morning of August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew came ashore near Homestead, Florida, as a Category...
Ocean Heat Threatens to Supercharge Storm Season in Europe August 19, 2026 By Laura Millan Rising temperatures in the ocean now have the potential to cause intense storms in Europe later this year, according to...
Climate Damage: The Next Hit to Europe’s Public Finances August 19, 2026 By Mark John and Yoruk Bahceli Someone will have to pick up the tab for the damage wrought by Europe’s increasingly volatile weather, and with the...
Europe’s Heatwaves Expose Insurance Gap as Business Losses Mount August 18, 2026 By Simon Jessop, Rebecca Delaney and Valentina Za For more than a century, cafes in the Italian city of Padua have welcomed customers for an early evening drink,...
Tornado Alley’s on the Move and Creating New Risk Concerns, Modeler Says August 14, 2026 By Don Jergler The peak of tornado season may be behind us, but the eastward expansion of what has been traditionally known as...
Viewpoint: Is it Time to Rethink the ‘Secondary-Peril’ Label and Reclassify Risk? August 12, 2026 By Vikas Wadhera As climate events intensify, exposure is expanding, and loss severities from secondary perils, such as convective storms, wildfires, floods and...