Time to tally BP oil spill’s toll on wildlife, habitat

The Evolving US Homeowners Insurance Market: Four Major Trends and What We Know About Them

This issue brief dives into four important issues with the current US homeowners insurance market: rising premiums, increasing policy cancellations and nonrenewals, growth in residual market plans, and coverage gaps.

The Value of Wetlands in Reducing Riverine Flood Losses

Wetlands play a vital role in reducing flood risk, yet they are vanishing from the American landscape at a growing rate. A new study finds that wetland loss has significantly increased insurance payouts that help communities recover after floods.

Bloomberg: “Fire-Zone Insurance Broker RockRose Risk Raises $12.5 Million”

Yanjun (Penny) Liao comments on insurance affordability issues.

Managing Heat Risk: Crop Insurance and Rural Economic Resilience

This working paper explores how extreme heat impacts crop insurance enrollment, finding that declines in crop yield from extreme heat do, in fact, increase enrollment.