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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>🌊 '''Catastrophe insurance''' refers to coverage designed to protect [[Definition:Policyholder | policyholders]] — and ultimately [[Definition:Insurance carrier | carriers]] themselves through [[Definition:Reinsurance | reinsurance]] — against the financial impact of large-scale natural or man-made disaster events, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and acts of terrorism. While standard [[Definition:Property insurance | property]] and [[Definition:Homeowners insurance | homeowners]] policies often include windstorm coverage, certain catastrophe perils like earthquake and flood are typically excluded from base policies and must be purchased separately or through government-backed programs such as the [[Definition:National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) | National Flood Insurance Program]] or the [[Definition:California Earthquake Authority (CEA) | California Earthquake Authority]].<br />
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🔧 Underwriting catastrophe-exposed business demands specialized tools and approaches. [[Definition:Insurance carrier | Carriers]] rely on [[Definition:Catastrophe modeling | catastrophe models]] to estimate probable maximum losses and set [[Definition:Premium | premiums]] that reflect the true tail risk of rare but severe events. Exposure management teams monitor [[Definition:Aggregation risk | aggregate accumulations]] by geography, construction type, and coverage limit to prevent concentrations that could threaten [[Definition:Solvency | solvency]]. On the [[Definition:Reinsurance | reinsurance]] side, catastrophe excess-of-loss treaties and [[Definition:Catastrophe bond (cat bond) | cat bonds]] provide layers of protection above the insurer's net retention, enabling carriers to write more [[Definition:Gross premium | gross premium]] than their balance sheets could otherwise support.<br />
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🛡️ The availability and affordability of catastrophe insurance directly affects communities, economies, and government budgets. When private-market coverage retreats from high-risk zones — as has occurred periodically in coastal Florida and wildfire-prone California — [[Definition:Residual market | residual-market mechanisms]] and state-sponsored plans step in, often at subsidized rates that can create moral hazard. [[Definition:Insurtech | Insurtech]] innovation in [[Definition:Parametric insurance | parametric products]], real-time [[Definition:Catastrophe modeling | risk modeling]], and [[Definition:Embedded insurance | embedded distribution]] is working to close protection gaps by making catastrophe coverage faster to issue, easier to understand, and more precisely priced. For the industry as a whole, catastrophe insurance remains both the greatest source of volatility and one of the most socially essential functions insurers perform.<br />
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'''Related concepts'''<br />
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* [[Definition:Catastrophe modeling]]<br />
* [[Definition:Catastrophe bond (cat bond)]]<br />
* [[Definition:Property insurance]]<br />
* [[Definition:National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)]]<br />
* [[Definition:Aggregation risk]]<br />
* [[Definition:Parametric insurance]]<br />
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