Simon Glairy brings a dual lens to California’s wildfire-relief bills: the on-the-ground realities of insurance markets and the precision of AI-driven risk assessment. With three measures advancing that would pause mortgage payments after a state disaster, extend forbearance for January 2025
The Affordable Care Act marketplaces had just notched a record sign-up season, yet the momentum slipped as the calendar flipped. Federal data showed roughly 23 million people selected plans, down from just over 24 million previously. The softer headline was not the real story. Beneath it sat a more
A breach clock did not start ticking when malware landed; it started the moment an insurer compared the security posture that was promised on an application with the controls that actually governed identities, endpoints, and backups across production systems. Cyber insurance has changed fast,
Sticker shock hit before the open house even started, because the first number many novices now check is not list price but the annual premium that shadows it at closing—and at $2,966 on average this year, that shadow grew long enough to change dreams, budgets, and zip codes. For one Tampa couple,
Coloradans facing relentless premium notices saw a concrete target this week: an average $800 reduction in annual homeowners insurance costs paired with a plan to keep private coverage available as wildfire, hail, and severe storms intensify across the state. Governor Jared Polis, working with the
Boards did not need another wake‑up call to see how brittle digital operations could be when a single vendor outage, an AI hallucination, or a ransomware spike could cascade through underwriting, claims, and capital in hours, and that urgency has propelled chief risk officers to redraw the map of
