How One Insurtech Firm Formulated a Strategy for Climate Change
Brian Kenny: On September 2, 1666 in a bake shop on Pudding Lane in London, Thomas Farriner, baker for King Charles II, failed to properly extinguish his oven, sparking a fire that burned for five days, destroying 80 percent of the city, including 13,000 homes, 87 parish churches, the Royal Exchange, Guildhall, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Within months, “Insurance Office” for houses, the first homeowners insurance company, began offering fire…