GEICO, the second-largest vehicle insurance underwriter in the US, has decided it will no longer cover Tesla Cybertrucks. The company is terminating current Cybertruck policies and says the truck “doesn’t meet our underwriting guidelines.”

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    3 months ago

    Semi-unrelated but insurance as a whole is bonkers right now and I’m not sure how much the average person knows. I work on commercial real estate. The whole industry is having to review tons of insurance waiver requests because insurance in some properties is out of control. Business either can’t get it for can’t afford it. Especially, in flood zones. I’m actually kind of worried about the damage these hurricanes are doing in the US. Not just in the lives lost, which is devastating, but also the financial damage of all the uninsured losses.

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      3 months ago

      Climate change is a big reason for the policy denials for property insurance. What wasn’t risky 20 years ago is much riskier today. Data doesn’t lie.

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      If an event chance is too high the cost of insurance increase to a point where it stops making sense.

      If every house in an area is 100% guaranteed to get at least one flood event over a 5 years period, that means that every 5 years the insurer need to get in enough money to rebuild all houses, so the cost of insurance will be more than 1/5th of value of a house per year (plus operating cost, profit, and so on). There’s no other way, it’s just maths.

      Ok, the actuarial math is more complex but it boils down to getting enough cash in to pay for claims and pay the operating cost.

      At a that point people need to realize that if the risk is too high they need to accept it, plan to rebuild every 5 years on their dime, or move.

      Unfortunately people suck at understanding risk.

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      3 months ago

      Sounds kind of like exactly what insurance is for? If you can’t get insurance for a flood zone, then maybe there’s a fucking reason for that.

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        The problem is people have gone and built entire cities in unsafe areas. If we were being sensible basically the entirety of Florida should not be occupied, the place is a disaster waiting to happen, or more accurately is a disaster that has already happened, but somehow nobody’s learnt from it.

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          Sounds like their problem? I know that sounds callous, and I’m not necessarily referring to the millions of Floridians who can’t afford to relocate (ideally, we’d have a functioning government that could relocate them)… But how many times does your home need to be destroyed on a bi-yearly basis before you decide to move a couple hundred miles away?

          If we were being sensible basically the entirety of Florida should not be occupied

          I mean… yeah.

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          Generally speaking, every house in Florida didn’t need to be replaced every five years.

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        I agree! And, I know government was bailing these people out for a long time, which just makes them double down. I’m not worried about those people. I’m worried about the ones that don’t want to be there and can’t afford to relocate, or for some and even worse, evacuate.

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      3 months ago

      Climate change is clearly a hoax, the Republicans were right all along!

      /s

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        So I had to look online because I don’t know where it is and North Carolina is nowhere near a coastline, so I’m not sure how much the people who live there are to blame.

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          North Carolina has a coastline though. Granted the issue this time was that the storm came in from the southwest and hit communities that were completely unprepared for the heavy rain, high winds and flash floods

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      You’re telling me. I just started a small construction company on the side and have to do it uninsured because it cost at a minimum $4,000 a year just for liability. Seems ridiculous

      Edit: I’m in Iowa too so clearly away from any possible large disasters. I know liability insurance is different from homeowners but I think it having a large effect on insurance as a whole. Also when the derecho went though Iowa, everyone and their brother apparently became a contractor and collected insurance money and that ruined it for a lot of other people.