The increasing rate of natural disasters like wildfires, frigid cold and hurricanes is leaving many Canadians and their insurers forking out billions of dollars, according to a new study from ...
Canada continues to see extreme weather events and wildfires at an increasing rate and with more severity— and it's leading to rising costs for both Canadians and insurers. As Sean Previl explains, ...
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events across the country has caused the sums paid out annually for catastrophic insurance claims to explode — and annual payouts for the last four ...
Maureen McGee searches for belongings in the ruins of her family's home after it was destroyed in a wildfire last June in the community of Hammonds Plains, outside of Halifax. (Darren Calabrese ...
Natural disasters are costing homeowners billions — and if new data indicates anything, those costs are only going to rise in the coming years. According to the latest National Hazard Report ...
National forecasting centers like the Met Office could apply the same tools used for weather forecasting to quantify how ...
IBC analysis based on industry data from GISA systems, Groupement des assureurs automobiles, ICBC (2023 data for ICBC is an estimation based on the average annual auto crime increase from 2020 to ...
"Billion-dollar weather and climate disasters broke U.S. record in 2023, NOAA says," reported PBS earlier this year. "NOAA: US sees record number of billion-dollar weather, climate disasters in ...
Two weather and climate scientists explain what these two vital industries consider extreme, and how the impacts of any given extreme can vary greatly between sectors.
The increasing rate of natural disasters like wildfires, frigid cold and hurricanes is leaving many Canadians and their insurers forking out billions of dollars, according to a new study from ...
The report says that between 1983 — the first year catastrophic insurance claims were tracked — and 2008, insurers paid out an average of $400 million per year. From 2009 to 2023, that yearly ...