The climate crisis is becoming a financial crisis. This month, the largest homeowner insurance company in California, State Farm, announced that it would stop selling coverage to homeowners. That’s not just in wildfire zones, but everywhere in the state. “We’re just now seeing it.”In parts of eastern Kentucky ravaged by storms last summer, the price of flood insurance is set to quadruple. In Louisiana, the top insurance official says the market is in crisis, and is offering millions of dollars in subsidies to try to draw insurers to the state.

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Persons: That’s, ”, Roy Wright, “ We’re Organizations: State Farm, . Insurance, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Insurance Institute, Business, Home Locations: California, Kentucky, Louisiana