Insurance, Politics and Climate Change
Part 2
Table of Contents
Chapter 5: Climate Change Affects Insurance Companies & Policyholders |
168 |
The Lawsuits Continue to Rise in Numbers |
168 |
Examples of Severe Weather Events in 2021 |
169 |
It Is Still Just Weather!? |
171 |
Fact #1-#5 |
171 |
Fact #6-#12 |
172 |
Federal Policies on Climate Change Between 2017and 2020 |
173 |
An Ever-Growing Wave of Lawsuits Helps the Insurance Industry |
175 |
Will Litigation be the Savior of the Insurance Industry? |
178 |
Wind Insurance in Wind Pool Areas |
180 |
What Defines a Windstorm? |
180 |
Windstorm Insurance Deductibles in Florida |
181 |
Insurer Risk-Knowledge & Management |
182 |
Assessing Risk & Avoiding Losses |
187 |
Life & Health Insurance Will be Affected |
193 |
Changing Landscape Affects Health Issues & Health Insurance |
194 |
Chapter 6: Insurers Have Limited Abilities |
196 |
Persuasion Through Premium Rates |
196 |
Insurance penetration rates |
198 |
Department of Commerce Estimations |
205 |
NFIP: What is the Message for Taxpayers? |
207 |
National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) |
210 |
1. Premium Increases & Surcharges |
210 |
Pre-FIRM Subsidized Policies |
211 |
Other Subsidized Policies |
211 |
V Zones |
212 |
A Zones |
212 |
X Zones |
212 |
Miscellaneous |
212 |
Changes to Become Effective 1/1/19 |
212 |
2. Policy Reformation for Use of Incorrect Standard Flood Ins Policy Form |
213 |
3. Premium Receipt Date for Guidance for Invalid Payments |
213 |
4. Primary Residence Determination |
213 |
5. Clarification of Increased Cost of Compliance Premium |
214 |
6. HFIAA Section 28, Clean Communication of Risk – Phase 2 Re-underwriting |
214 |
7. Datum Conversion |
214 |
8. Updated Claims Data Elements |
215 |
NFIP Risk Rating 2.0 |
215 |
What is not Changing |
216 |
Premium Rates under Risk Rating 2.0 |
217 |
Phase I and Phase II |
218 |
General Property Form / Standard Flood Insurance Policy |
220 |
Europe Ahead of America in the Reality Category |
248 |
Litigation Risk Due to Both Actions & Inactions Related to Climate Change |
250 |
Physical Risks |
254 |
Transition Risks |
254 |
Liability Risks |
254 |
Driving Factors |
254 |
Insurer Risk is Increasing |
256 |
Insurance Categories |
257 |
Business Interruption Insurance and Resulting Claims |
258 |
Food Safety & Insurance |
258 |
Global Security Also Impacted |
259 |
General Insurance & Liability Affected |
259 |
It is All in the Math |
260 |
Insurance Company Wake-Up Calls |
260 |
Insurers Invest Too |
261 |
Dealing with Transition Risks |
261 |
Liability Risks |
262 |
Professional Indemnity |
265 |
Making Assessments |
266 |
As Always, Opinions Vary |
267 |
Tipping Events |
271 |
International Collaborations & Finance: Premium Rise as Claims Rise |
271 |
Developing New Insurance Products |
272 |
Insurance Impacts from Global Warming |
273 |
Life Insurance |
273 |
Health Insurance |
273 |
Insurers Recognized It First (Along with Scientists of course) |
278 |
Concepts of Insurability |
279 |
Chapter 7: The Ethics of Climate Change |
282 |
Climate Change: An Ethical Issue |
282 |
The Poorest of the Poor |
283 |
Predicting & Coping |
285 |
New Technology & the Hope that it Will Heal |
285 |
Power |
287 |
Transport Technology |
287 |
Funding from an Ethical Obligation |
287 |
What’s in a Name? |
289 |
Three primary issues that relate to climate change |
289 |
IPPC report identified the ethical considerations |
295 |
Climate Change: A Moral Issue |
301 |
Aerosol Pollution |
303 |
In insurance Uncertainty is a technical term. |
307 |
Adaption where possible |
309 |
Change Starts at the Top |
312 |
Giving the Subject Legitimacy |
312 |
Making Global Warming Personally Relevant |
313 |
Making Ethical Choices for our World |
313 |
Regulatory & Political Risks |
314 |
From a Practical Standpoint |
319 |
Choosing Ethical Conduct |
320 |
Ethics Beyond Philosophers |
321 |
Being Ethically Responsible is Hard Work |
322 |
Responsibility to Others |
323 |
A Legal Liability |
325 |
Free Choice |
327 |
Egoism |
329 |
Objectivist Theory |
330 |
Example # 1 & #2 |
330 |
Ethical Conduct Varies |
331 |
Moral Persuasion |
332 |
Rationalizing Morals |
333 |
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