Nonprofit to Rescue NOAA Billion-Dollar Dataset

A climate nonprofit plans to revive a key federal database tracking billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that the Trump Administration stopped updating in May, Bloomberg reported. The database captures the financial toll of increasingly intense weather events and was used by insurers and others to understand, model, and predict weather perils across the United States.…

Auto Premium Growth Slows As Policyholders Shop Around, Study Says

Improved loss ratios, strong premium growth, and lower retention rates characterized the U.S. auto insurance industry in 2024, according to LexisNexis® Risk Solutions’ 2025 U.S Auto Insurance Trends Report. The report shows that, “while a number of insurers returned to profitability as the market softened,” the market was characterized by “record levels of policy shopping and…

Parents Eye IoTto Address Perilsof Teen Driving

Parents are increasingly open to using technology to keep their teen drivers safe on the road, a recent survey from Nationwide finds. The survey found 4 out of 5 parents would enroll their teens in telematics programs that reward safe driving. This enthusiasm for tech-based solutions comes despite mixed parental assessments of their teens’ driving…