All the headlines from our Catastrophe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 19 2025 // Alternative investment managers are starting to take a serious interest in catastrophe bonds tied to wildfires, moving into a risk category that just a few years ago was seen as too difficult to model.More than $5 billion...
Dec 18 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Markel Insurance and Tokio Marine Kiln.A summary of these new hires follows here. Markel Int’l Taps AXIS’ Howell as Senior War and Terrorism...
Dec 17 2025 // ATLANTA, G.A. (Dec. 17, 2025) – Risksmith Insurance Services, a specialty Managing General Underwriter (MGU) known for its expertise across the E&S property landscape, today announced the launch of its new Difference...
Dec 17 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Xcel Energy Inc., accusing the utility company of “blatant negligence” over its role in the Smokehouse Creek wildfire that killed three people and caused more than $1...
Dec 10 2025 // A California state agency won’t meet Gov. Gavin Newsom’s year-end deadline to finish long-delayed regulations to protect homes from wildfires, rules that experts say could have limited the destruction of the...
Dec 9 2025 // Japanese authorities ended all tsunami warnings after a powerful magnitude-7.5 quake struck off the coast of Aomori, in the northeast of the country, late on Monday.Waves as high as 70 cm (28 inches) were recorded in the...
Dec 8 2025 // A powerful, magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck in a remote area near the border between Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon on Saturday. There was no tsunami warning, and officials said there were no immediate reports...
Dec 5 2025 // China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there’s nothing routine about its journey home.The Shenzhou-20...
Dec 5 2025 // A report from a regulator-created group found that a multifaceted approach to addressing wildfires and lack of insurance affordability in Arizona should be tackled with a multifaceted approach that includes homeowners,...
Dec 3 2025 // A working group on wildfires in Washington wants the state Legislature to consider requiring insurers to internally track instances in which wildfire risk materially contributes to a policy nonrenewal, cancellation or...
Dec 1 2025 // A 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the Anchorage metropolitan area Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The quake struck at about 8:11 a.m. local time at a depth of 69 kilometers (43 miles), according...
Dec 1 2025 // As the Trump administration stalls federal funding for projects intended to make states more resilient to climate change and private insurers decline to cover properties in high-risk zones, North Carolina just proved...
Nov 26 2025 // More than 100 homes have been damaged after a tornado touched down in a residential area outside Houston, authorities in Texas said Monday.No injuries were reported. Photos and drone video posted on Facebook by the Harris...
Nov 26 2025 // A lack of bad weather isn’t always a good thing.It looks like the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is wrapping up in quiet fashion—aside from Hurricane Melissa, which caused catastrophic damage in Jamaica before...
Nov 26 2025 // This year’s Atlantic hurricane season was marked by contrasts, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). From intense bursts of activity to relative calm, the season will end on...
Nov 25 2025 // On the hunt for cheap and fast strategies to prevent deadly wildfires, utilities across the US and Europeare contracting with a handful of artificial intelligence startups to map wildfire risk along thousands of miles of...
Nov 25 2025 // Binance Holdings Ltd. faces a lawsuit claiming the cryptocurrency platform “knowingly facilitated” crypto transactions by Hamas before the group attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking...
Nov 20 2025 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s PacifiCorp said it has reached a $150 million settlement with 1,434 plaintiffs associated with the 2020 Labor Day fires in Oregon.The accord, disclosed Wednesday in a regulatory filing, will...
Nov 19 2025 // The European Union’s top diplomat said that Moscow’s aggression against the bloc, including an explosion that occurred in Poland over the weekend, should be considered terrorism.“These sabotage acts they...
Nov 19 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up to be one of the most active yet, with up to 25 named storms expected — and the potential for major damage....