GEICO closing offices in California, insurers battling with regulators, lawsuits, settlements, and wildfires were among the most read stories in Insurance Journal’s West region. Following were among the region’s top 10 articles for the year that interested readers. The Top …
Michael Hall was an early insurance carrier entrant into the insuring cannabis space. Yet, even as it has grown and his competition increases, he doesn’t seem to worry about losing business to competitors or the potential of having to operate …
Improved and more sophisticated risk management in the cannabis industry warrant reduced insurance costs and more capacity, says the head of risk management at one of the cannabis industry’s best-know publicly traded companies. Karl Long is senior director of risk …
A Moody’s Investors Service Report shows that 16 sectors holding $4.3 trillion in rated debt are exposed to high or very high environmental credit risk. That’s more than twice as much as when the Paris Agreement was announced in 2015, …
Climate change made droughts in the Northern Hemisphere droughts more likely this year, a new study by a team of U.S. and international scientists shows. The scientists, part of World Weather Attribution, a group that studies links between extreme weather …
Insurance professionals in the alternative energies sector may want to take note of a recent Bloomberg opinion piece that focuses on supply chain and supply chain risks due to rising energy costs. It calls 2022 “a blockbuster year for energy …
Cannabis sales continue to rise, and states continue to legalize it. There may be a few clouds in the cannabis industry forecast, which have some specialty brokers dealing with these challenges. But overall, the outlook for cannabis is upbeat. Sales …
Atmospheric rivers that bombard the Western U.S. from time to time could result in as much as $3.2 billion in flood damage by century’s end, according to researchers who published a new study in the journal Scientific Reports. Atmospheric rivers …
If you’re looking for a niche within a niche, insuring cannabis seeds be the answer. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration declared in a memo issued in April that cannabis seeds that don’t exceed the .3% THC limit do not fall …
A provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk and resilience is partnering with global environmental organization The Nature Conservancy to protect sensitive natural areas and provide estimates of future heat and water stresses associated with climate change in …