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Insurance, Climate Change and the Law: how to be an enabler, not a doomist, on climate action

In her new book, Franziska Arnold-Dwyer explores the requirements and potential roles for insurers in the net-zero transition, as she explains to Joshua Geer

NAIC adopts national climate resilience strategy

The move is designed to battle US insurance crisis

NAIC climate data call could leave FIO in the cold

Climate and its impact on insurers has been a source of acrimony between state and federal insurance regulators in the US. The NAIC's recently issued climate data call, following the initiative of FIO, might not represent the warming of relations it initially seems. Sarfraz Thind reports

Swiss Re highlights pricing and incentivising importance as nat cat losses spike

Record 142 insured nat cats in 2023, totalling $108bn in losses

Zurich excludes business as 16% of climate change engagement efforts flatline

Insurer succeeded in 20% of its engagement efforts last year

IAG and Suncorp to discount premiums on homes made more fire-resilient

Based on results of app-based self-assessment survey for bushfire-prone homeowners

Aon targets improved visual understanding of physical climate risk

Insurance industry pushes back on Eiopa's greenwashing stance

Insurance Europe and the CRO Forum advocate for a harmonised approach

Shareholders set to challenge multiple insurers on sustainability records at upcoming AGMs

Zurich, AIG and Chubb are among the insurers facing shareholder resolutions

US lawmakers press Florida's Citizens on solvency concerns

Insurer of last resort faces pressures to pay in case of a major storm