Embedded insurance promises to disrupt insurance distribution as well as product and help close the “protection gap”--the 50% of all economic losses not covered by insurance.
While climate discussions often focus on the indirect effects of rising temperatures, such as intensifying hurricanes and wildfires, some innovators think we can write insurance covering the direct effects on people and property.
ITL Editor-in-Chief Paul Carroll talks with Jordan Clark, a senior policy associate at Duke University, about his research into how the industry might insure against heat.
Even taking the low estimate for losses and high estimate for insurance coverage, we still face $200 billion in uninsured losses from Hurricane Helene. We need to talk.