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Annual insured catastrophe losses above $100 billion are no longer tail events. They are becoming a recurring feature of the global insurance market. Munich Re estimates that natural disasters generated $108 billion in insured losses during 2025, following $147 billion in 2024. The composition is also changing. Floods, wildfires, and severe convective storms produced approximately $98 billion in insured losses in 2025. Individually, these events are smaller than major hurricanes or earthquakes. Collectively, they create substantial losses across regions and portfolios. Insurers have four basic responses: * Increase rates. * Reduce limits. * Raise deductibles. * Withdraw capacity. California and Florida show how regulation affects that adjustment. California now allows forward-looking catastrophe models and certain reinsurance costs in ratemaking while requiring insurers to expand coverage in wildfire-distressed areas. Florida took a different path. Citizens Property Insurance grew to 1.42 million policies in 2023 as private insurers reduced exposure. By June 2026, it had declined to approximately 274,000 policies as private capacity returned. Citizens also reduced homeowners’ multiperil rates by an average of 8.8% in 2026, reflecting lower reinsurance costs, litigation reforms, and market depopulation. Hurricane risk did not decline. The financing and allocation of that risk changed. For companies with significant physical footprints, three considerations matter: * Insurance budgets should reflect catastrophe models, reinsurance cycles, deductibles, exclusions, and coverage limits—not simply historical premium inflation. * Property valuations should test insurance availability as well as cost. Limited coverage can affect financing, capitalization rates, and transaction liquidity. * Geographic exposure should be assessed across the value chain. Repricing can affect facilities, suppliers, employees, and customers simultaneously. Climate exposure becomes financial exposure through several channels. Insurance is one of the first—and most visible. The strategic question is not whether catastrophe risk will be repriced. It is whether companies understand where that repricing will appear on their income statements, balance sheets, and capital plans. Underwriters are increasingly influencing which properties can be financed, which projects can be built, and where businesses can operate economically. Follow for more analysis on how structural risks move onto corporate income statements and balance sheets. #CommercialInsurance #ClimateRisk #CFO

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