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These are securities that protect issuers, mostly insurers and governments, from severe losses in the event of a natural disaster by paying out when certain conditions are met. In fact ...

For every health concern, someone on social media is touting a quick-fix solution—often in the form of a drink. Most of these concoctions are harmless, like the “Sleepy Girl Mocktail” and the “Adrenal ...

Disasters also cause communal responses – many unaffected Americans donate to the Red Cross and other nonprofits to support victims – and a strict focus on accuracy in underwriting could ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have welcomed friends and others who lost their homes in the wildfire to their $14 million Montecito mansion and went to the Los Angeles wildfire region. They were ...

The site of the once-legendary mall now hosts FEMA and other agencies assisting fire victims. The Disaster Recovery Center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the next several weeks. Amid ...

In the months preceding the outbreak of the infernos now raging through Los Angeles County, home insurance carriers began withdrawing new coverage in response to the rising threat from wildfires ...

For the past two years, I have been studying the effects of natural disasters like this one on rental housing markets. As a professor of real estate, I have analyzed the question from a distance ...

A longtime effort to make tax breaks more generous for victims of natural disasters is finally coming to fruition just as wildfire victims are staring at billions of dollars of devastation around ...

The wildfires were worsened by a perfect storm of conditions, experts said. The fires blazing through Los Angeles County are the latest unprecedented natural disaster likely amplified by our ...