insurers

“So in general insurers are very afraid of nuclear risk. There's a common nuclear exclusion in in many policies.”

“There are insurers sending the signal, for example, that they're not going to insure coal mines or coal power plants anymore.”

“There is also absolutely a sense of kind of reactiveness here that something bad happens and let's get out of the place where the bad thing is happening. And that I agree that there's this ad hoc, a little bit of an ad hoc sense to it, but fundamentally I thin…”

“We think about insurers trying to protect their solvency, and one way that they can do that is that they can hold a bunch of surplus capital within the firm, but that's an expensive thing to do, to, you know, basically put capital in low-risk investments to be…”

“Almost all of the models that are applied by insurers today are developed by for-profit private companies. It makes them all a little bit of a black box. It makes them all basically impossible for objective third parties to evaluate”

“Natural disaster events are just fundamentally different because we, you know, thankfully have not had a thick enough historical record of disaster events that we can price these things using the statistical methods that are standard in other lines of insuranc…”