Home insurance costs are rising because disaster costs have risen. It is shaping up to be the next housing-affordability shock, Jonathan Crystal writes in a guest commentary.

Seen through an actuarial lens, the changing climate is not an ideology. It’s a risk management challenge already reshaping ...

When markets get loud, discipline- not predictions, makes the difference. Darnel Berntz shares how probability, planning, and ...

Homeowners insurance has traditionally been a background cost of owning a home, but in many markets, it is becoming a defining factor in housing affordability. Recent industry research and real estate ...

Zomato and Swiggy are locked in a battle with their own delivery partners. The foodtech giants claim that they are investing in insurance, upskilling and incentives to expand the social safety net for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

The mayoral election highlighted the fact that increasing numbers of New Yorkers cannot afford the high cost of living in our city. The solutions to the affordability crisis are complicated, but a ...

Shauna Ursery-Syms moves a box of donations at the Collaboratory, a multiagency relief center in Altadena connecting residents with resources for food, housing, permitting, mental health and childcare ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

Is the affordability issue making President Trump schizophrenic? “I don’t want to hear about the affordability!” Trump declared in a Fox News interview last month after falsely claiming the cost of a ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Successful reforms targeting medical malpractice in 1975 and workers’ compensation in 1991 solved Louisiana’s insurance crises of those times. Putting the current auto liability crisis into that ...