Encouraging Adaptation to Climate Change: Long Term Flood Insurance

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.

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.

The Seattle Times: “Spokane Wildfires Raise Homeowner Fears over Insurance Coverage”

RFF Senior Fellow Margaret Walls comments on rising insurance prices.