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How climate disasters are shaping insurance markets
Premiums are rising. Insurers are leaving markets. But people keep building in risk-prone areas, and the climate disasters just keep coming.
Can insurance markets adapt?
In this episode, Shayle talks to Dr. Judd Boomhower, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California-San Diego and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He studies how insurance markets are reacting to climate change. Shayle and Judd cover topics like:
Why insurers are limiting coverage in California, Florida, and other high-risk markets
How disaster insurance, unlike auto…
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