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14 April 2026Insurance

California, fixated on fire and quake, awash in major flood risk

Flood exposure may be the under-appreciated killer risk in cat-prone California, ballooning precisely at the confluence of natural risk drivers risks and insurance market fragilities stemming from higher-profile catastrophe concerns, private flood insurer Neptune Insurance Holdings is arguing.

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