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  • Insurers worldwide seek lessons from LA's infernos

    05 March 2025

    From California to Australia, stakeholders in assessing, covering and combatting wildfire risk tell David Walker lessons will be learned from Los Angeles's horrors

  • Comment - 'Live by the sword, die by the sword' - Californian insurer hauled over coals for fossil fuel shareholdings in GA

    28 February 2025

    Consumer Watchdog has 'drilled baby drilled' into beleaguered group's GA exposures

  • Consumer Watchdog cites State Farm's old energy stocks in heated rate-hike battle

    27 February 2025

    State Farm wants regulator's nod for 22% higher home premiums in California

  • Chart of the Week - Why the news is not all bad for Californian insurer State Farm GI

    14 February 2025

    Amid hefty natcat bills in past years, and worse probably yet to come from LA, State Farm's CIO has helped steady the ship

  • Chart of the Week: Did LA's insurers choose the wrong fire-risk properties to avoid, before the city's trial by fire?

    17 January 2025

    Data shows widespread non-renewals in fire-prone California in 2023, but maybe in the 'wrong' areas

  • APAC Weekly - Why LA's burning matters for APAC insurers

    14 January 2025

    Wildfires reveal connectedness of global insurance industry

  • Comment: CIOs enjoy strong tailwinds of goodwill in 'transition GAs', in a ride that CUOs might only dream of

    08 March 2023

    Why a CIO's life with the media can be so much touchy-feelier than a CUO's, in our era of climate change

  • California not to consider boosted climate disclosures bill

    20 April 2022

    Insurance commissioner Lara under NGOs' scrutiny ahead of elections

  • Ricardo Lara reveals California's fossil fuel investors

    19 April 2022

    Green bond holders also unearthed in annual study

  • California and Washington regulators request insurers to join TCFD reporting

    09 June 2021

    Signals move to more uniform climate reporting in US