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  • The US climate split

    25 April 2022

    The knives are out on what US insurers need reveal about their climate-related exposures. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • The insurance industry's climate change leaders

    30 June 2020

    Christopher Cundy introduces InsuranceERM's list of the people leading and shaping the insurance sector's response to climate change

  • California's new regulator keeps up with the Joneses on climate

    08 January 2019

    Ricardo Lara's inaugural comments echo outgoing insurance commissioner's

  • Insured losses from California wildfires already at $9bn

    13 December 2018

    Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones expects the figure to rise as more claims are processed

  • California fires to "severely test" risk tolerances

    14 November 2018

    A.M. Best warns forest fires will hit profits and cause re-evaluation of underwriting

  • Moody's estimates up to $5bn losses in California fires

    12 November 2018

    Losses exacerbated by builders still repairing damage from 2017’s fires

  • July's California wildfires to hit insurers for $845m

    07 September 2018

    Insurance commissioner warns worse fires may be coming

  • Californian commissioner warns over fire insurance risk

    21 August 2018

    California is not at a crisis point yet in terms of the availability of insurance to citizens burnt out in last year's fires, but the trends are not good, Dave Jones the state's insurance commissioner says. David Walker reports

  • California insurance commissioner takes aim at insurers over fire legislation

    29 June 2018

    Dave Jones has condemned insurers’ “insatiable appetite for profit”

  • Californian disasters insurance bill tops $12bn

    03 April 2018

    This year's mudslide damage nears $500m