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Insurance companies facing bankruptcy due to climate disasters are a warning sign of an impending banking crisis, and urgent action is needed from regulators to prevent financial crashes and costly bailouts.
Frequent weather catastrophes, fueled by climate change, are causing disruptions in the home insurance market, with insurers pulling out of high-risk areas, raising prices, and reducing coverage, leading to tougher choices and higher costs for consumers.
The increasing risks of extreme weather events from climate change are causing insurance companies to raise rates and pull back from high-risk areas, which could potentially lead to losses for banks that rely on insurance-backed collateral for loans.
Florida-only insurers like Citizens Property Insurance expect less damage and fewer claims from Hurricane Idalia compared to previous storms, easing concerns of further market pullback, but industry experts still predict challenges for the insurance market and the possibility of increased premiums for customers.
Rising insurance premiums, caused by climate change and insurers pulling out of coverage areas, will disproportionately affect low-income policyholders and hinder disaster recovery efforts in heavily affected regions.
Millions of American homeowners are facing increasing insurance costs and reduced coverage due to climate change-related risks, with properties in high-risk areas potentially becoming overvalued as insurance underprices the risk, according to a new analysis from the First Street Foundation.
The risk of insurance coverage changes due to climate-related events is high in coastal regions and is increasing in non-coastal areas, leading to potential financial hardships for homeowners.
A new report by nonprofit First Street Foundation suggests that a quarter of residential properties in the U.S. are overvalued in relation to their climate risk, with homes in states like California and Florida being more vulnerable to damages from extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, fires, and earthquakes. The number of homes likely to be destroyed by fires each year is projected to double in the next 30 years, reaching nearly 34,000 in total, according to the research. The overvaluation of properties due to climate risk could potentially have disastrous consequences for the housing market, leading to a deflation of the climate bubble.
The global risk of housing bubbles has significantly decreased in 2023, with only two out of 25 cities surveyed being at risk, down from nine in previous reports, due to rising interest rates and the end of cheap financing in the real estate sector.
A climate-risk intelligence firm has warned that some of the most overvalued housing markets in the US, particularly in California and Florida, are at high risk of climate-related damage from extreme weather events, leading to potential losses of $1.3 trillion to $2.2 trillion in a market rationalization.
A non-profit research group has found that nearly a quarter of all properties in the continental United States are overvalued due to a climate-insurance bubble inflated by government subsidization, with private insurers leaving risky markets and homeowners turning to state-backed insurers of last resort; policymakers should allow private insurers to set actuarially sound rates to deter reckless building and ensure the financial burden of living in high-risk areas is shouldered by those who enjoy the benefits.
Insurers in the US are struggling as climate change increases the likelihood of disaster, undermining their ability to profit from betting against such events.
The U.S. home insurance market is facing a crisis as policy premiums skyrocket and private insurers withdraw from high-risk states, leaving millions of homeowners at risk of inadequate coverage.
Despite years of reforms, insurance experts and analysts do not expect homeowners insurance premiums in Florida to decrease in the foreseeable future, potentially leaving residents struggling to afford sky-high rates.
