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Weather & Climate Risk Management Part IV: Taxation of Weather Risk Management Products

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Are there differences in the way in which weather derivatives and weather insurance are taxed? Yes. Weather insurance products, including parametric insurance, are taxed as insurance; and derivatives are taxed in accordance...more

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Global Insurance Perspectives on Climate Change

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Evolving climate change data presents an ominous trend that has the potential to upend historical assumptions of actuarial science. For example, in the last several years global risk markets have weathered historically...more

Dechert LLP

Flood Insurance, Commercial Real Estate and Climate Change

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Climate change is forcing the commercial real estate industry to re-think the effectiveness of flood insurance that developers, lenders and investors have relied on for decades. Rising sea levels and more extreme weather...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

House Bill 1774 Requires Urgent Action by Texas Policyholders to Preserve Coverage for Hurricane Harvey Flood Claims

Even as Hurricane Harvey’s effects continue to unfold, Texas policyholders face another imminent threat. On September 1, 2017, a new Texas law becomes effective that dramatically limits insurance recoveries for Texan...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Hurricane Harvey: Insurance Implications

Hurricane Harvey, projected to be the most powerful storm to strike the United States since 2005, is bearing down on the Texas coastline and may make landfall as soon as Friday, August 25. Forecasters say it will likely have...more

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When it Rains it Floods: California Rainstorms and Flood Insurance

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Until very recently, the scarcity of water and the decline in oil prices in California prompted the joke that oil was being used as fracking fluid to get water out of the ground. In the last week, however, so much rain has...more

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Can Disputes Related To Procurement Of Federal Flood Insurance Policies Be Litigated In State Court?

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It is well-established that claim processing and wrongful denial of coverage disputes involving federal flood insurance policies belong in federal court because they present substantial questions of federal law. The U.S....more

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