
Hal King on Food Safety, Outbreak Risk, and Financial Cross-Contamination
his summer's record cyclosporiasis outbreak did something unusual: it took money out of companies that had nothing to do with it. Five food companies cut or constrained guidance over the outbreak. Non...
9 Sep 50min

Karen Clark on AI, Frequency Perils, and Why Reinsurers Stopped Trusting the Models
Karen Clark, founder and CEO of Karen Clark & Company, returns to Risky Science to discuss KCC's new white paper on artificial intelligence in catastrophe models — where AI genuinely improves the scie...
2 Sep 44min

Insurance Isn't Just Transferring Risk Anymore
Private credit didn't just find a new source of capital—it may have changed the role of life insurance itself. Andrew Granato and Pranjal Yadav explain why insurance regulation, guaranty funds and opa...
5 Aug 53min

Can Big Tech Become The Next Insurance Company?
For years, the biggest competitive battles in insurance have been between insurers. Underwriting. Pricing. Capital management.But artificial intelligence may be changing the rules.What if the next maj...
29 Jul 42min

Private Capital, Public Flood: Risky Science Live
Listen to the full replay of the latest Risky Science Live "Private Capital, Public Flood: Risky Science Live". The panel examines what a larger private flood market actually requires: the modeling so...
24 Jul 55min

Jane Kim and California's Insurance "Hostage Situation"
Jane Kim just finished first in the race to become California's next insurance commissioner. She's a former San Francisco supervisor and worked for Bernie Sanders. And where Allen wants to draw privat...
22 Jul 32min

The Price Is the Forecast
Weather derivatives have struggled with liquidity for 25 years. Jim Huang thinks prediction markets can finally fix that — but only if the contracts are built around events people actually watch.In th...
15 Jul 36min

Risk Doesn't Disappear, It Gets Allocated
In this week’s episode we are digging into California's insurance market — and specifically, into the fight over who actually owns wildfire risk. Is it the insurers pulling back from high-risk areas? ...
8 Jul 39min



















