The most viewed headlines from our Natural Disasters Topic Page over the last 30 days.
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 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 31 2025 // Insurance Journal recaps the biggest stories of 2025—across all of our regions—from record-breaking wildfires and climate losses to broker mega-deals, litigation reform, cyber threats, AI-driven layoffs, and signs of...
Jan 5 2026 // Insurers have paid more than $22.4 billion on tens of thousands of claims from the Los Angles wildfires that broke out a year ago on Jan. 7.The claims data, which comes from the California Department of Insurance, shows...
Jan 7 2026 // “DANGER: Lead Work Area” reads a sign on a front door of an Altadena home. “May damage fertility or the unborn child. Causes damage to the central nervous system.”Block after block there are...
Jan 6 2026 // In a report one year on from the Los Angeles area wildfires in 2025, which started on Jan. 7, Morningstar DBS Research issued a perspective that called the fires “a significant stress event” for...
Jan 6 2026 // A federal appeals court has ruled that the government is liable for damage to homes that flooded upstream of the Addicks and Barker dams after Hurricane Harvey unleashed more than 50 inches of rainfall on the Houston...
Jan 6 2026 // Missi Dowd-Figueroa brought life back to the fire-ravaged plot where her home once stood—one sunflower at a time.The registered nurse and mother of three lost her 1898 farm-style house in the Eaton Fire, one of two...
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 22 2025 // The National Weather Service on Friday issued a rare warning for part of Colorado’s Front Range as hurricane-force winds and tinder dry conditions boosted the threat of wildfire across several counties, while flood...
Jan 6 2026 // Millions of people living on the expanding outskirts of Australia’s major cities face an increasing risk of urban wildfires similar to the deadly blazes in Los Angeles last year.Suburbs on the fringes of centers...
Jan 6 2026 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom said a group of major banks have agreed to extend mortgage relief for Los Angeles wildfire victims, as the area struggles to rebuild one year after the devastating blazes.Wells Fargo & Co.,...
Dec 23 2025 // Specialty managing general underwriter Risksmith Insurance Services announced the launch of its new difference in conditions (DIC) earthquake insurance program.Built for large, complex and true excess & surplus...
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...
Jan 6 2026 // Heavy rain, flooding, storms and hail – also known as severe convective storms (SCS) – brought below-average claims for German insurers in 2025, defying the long-term trend for such perils, given the impact of climate...
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...
Jan 9 2026 // On the first anniversary of the most destructive wildfires in the L.A. area, the scant home construction projects stand out among the still mostly flattened landscapes.Fewer than a dozen homes have been rebuilt in Los...