A Katrina-Scale Hurricane Hitting Florida Will Trigger Mass Insurer Insolvency
Koki Mochida · We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts · May 28, 2025 · at 2:17:27
Thiel Fellow Koki Mochida discusses systemic financial fragility in coastal disaster insurance markets in the face of mega-hurricanes.
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“But when a next Hurricane Katrina happens in, you know, Florida, for example, then insurance is just going to be insolvent in many ways.”
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