Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Safeguarding home insurance : reducing exposure and vulnerability to extreme weather

MAP20250007215

Safeguarding home insurance : reducing exposure and vulnerability to extreme weather / Maryam Golnaraghi, Zhelyan Vichev. — Zurich : The Geneva Association, 2025

68 p.

The rising insurance challenge -- Socioeconomic drivers of property risks related to extreme weather -- Stakeholder impacts on exposure and vulnerability -- Reducing risks by investing in local resilience -- Challenges ahead -- Appendix 1: Projected increases in the frequency and severity of floods and wildfires -- Appendix 2: Litigation cases brought against local governments and agencies -- Appendix 3: Government-owned or -subsidised insurance schemes. — Sumario: Insured losses due to extreme weather events have reached unprecedented levels and threaten to destabilise the global household insurance market. Localised risks, such as floods, forest fires and severe convective storms, already account for around 50% of total insured losses worldwide. This increase in risk coincides with growing pressure on the affordability of insurance. The problem is not only economic, but also structural. Many building codes are outdated or not effectively enforced at the local level; critical infrastructure lacks maintenance; and urban development in areas of interface with nature (such as forest edges) significantly increases fire risk

1. Seguro multirriesgo del hogar . 2. Mercado de seguros . 3. Riesgos meteorológicos . 4. Costes económicos . 5. Normas básicas de la edificación . 6. Mantenimiento . 7. Infraestructuras críticas . 8. Perspectivas del seguro . I. Vichev, Zhelyan . II. The Geneva Association . III. Título.