The impact of the historic Los Angeles-area wildfires is being broadly examined and continually refined, with updates almost daily on insured losses, total economic losses and damages, credit ratings—and lately worrying outlooks for the effect of the fires on insurance rates. Tens of thousands of properties will be ultimately lost when final counts come in, … Read more
Catastrophe risk modelling specialist Karen Clark & Company (KCC) estimates that the insured loss (from privately insured and FAIR plan policies) to residential, commercial, and industrial properties, and autos from both the Palisades and Eaton wildfires in Los Angeles will sit close to $28 billion.KCC becomes the latest risk modeller to release an initial estimate … Read more
Mercury General Corporation, one insurance company with meaningful exposure to claims from the Los Angeles, California wildfires, has said today that it has not yet determined whether it will consider the fires as two separate events under its reinsurance arrangements.Previously, Mercury had explained that it expected the California wildfires would result in losses for the … Read more
Insurer Mercury General Corporation has said that it expects the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, California will result in losses for the company that will exceed its reinsurance retention of $150 million.It will be some time until Mercury has an estimate for its ultimate losses from the ongoing wildfire event, the company said today. But, … Read more
Overnight, more details on the scale of the devastation caused by the wildfires burning in the Los Angeles region of California have emerged, with officials saying 10,000 structures have been destroyed across the two main fires, while estimates of losses continue to rise.Wildfires are still burning and containment percentages remains very low for the main … Read more
