Despite Wildfires, California Wine is Doing Just Fine – For Now November 12, 2019 By Rachel Lerman If you’re worried that wildfires might have created shortages of Northern California’s 2019 cabernet sauvignon, or even just imparted it...
PG&E California Wildfire Victims Sue to Get Paid Before Fire Insurers November 12, 2019 By Steven Church PG&E Corp. wildfire victims have filed a new lawsuit arguing they must be fully repaid for the losses of their...
PG&E Expecting over $6B in Costs from California Wildfire November 8, 2019 Pacific Gas & Electric is reporting substantial losses for the third quarter, driven by catastrophic wildfires that have been blamed...
Typhoon Hagibis to Cost Japan’s Economy $10B, with Insured Losses in Billions: Aon November 8, 2019 Typhoon Hagibis is likely to become one of 2019’s costliest events, with economic costs of more than US$10 billion and...
California Town Devastated by Wildfire Rebuilds, But Is It Any Safer a Year Later November 7, 2019 By Don Thompson There was “no way in hell” Victoria Sinclaire was rebuilding in Paradise, Calif. She’d thought she was going to die...
PG&E Extending Deadline for California Wildfire Damage Claims November 6, 2019 By Daisy Nguyen Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to extend by two months the deadline to file claims against the company for...
Boosting Resilience to U.S. Wildfires Should Be Insurance Industry Priority: I.I.I. November 6, 2019 Nearly a year after the deadliest and costliest wildfire in U.S. history, insurers and the customers they cover are revisiting...
Wildfire Season Rages on in Southern California as Thousands Flee November 1, 2019 By Christopher Martin and Brian K. Sullivan A wildfire that erupted overnight near Los Angeles has forced 7,500 people to flee as the tail end of a...
A.M. Best Says Insurers Challenged by ‘New Normal’ of California Wildfires October 31, 2019 While the number of burned acres in 2019 is still well below the number reported last year through October, experts...
Kincade, Tick and Getty Fires Currently Threaten Nearly 1,000 Homes with a Reconstruction Cost Value of $535M October 31, 2019 By Tom Jeffery, Senior Hazard Scientist As of October 29, there were at least 18 fires burning in California, ranging in size from a few acres...