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Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg receives direct message from activists during US China business event in New York October 15th, 2024 (New York, New York) — Evan Greenberg, CEO of Chubb Insurance, was the main focus for protestors outside of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations gala event Tuesday evening in Manhattan. Greenberg is the Executive …

Every year, more people across the United States experience climate disasters, forcing them to leave their homes, lose their belongings, and be separated from jobs and family. Meanwhile, home insurance markets are in a mounting crisis–and leaving people across the country behind. Media and policy makers are attuned to this crisis, but most are not …

Banks, and now insurers, drop project plagued with risk from community, cultural, and climate issues. RIO GRANDE, TX, August 6, 2024 — An insurance certificate obtained through a public information act request for Rio Grande LNG no longer lists Chubb as an insurer of the project. The insurance giant dropped the proposed controversial methane gas …

Events and actions will be held from June 24-28 targeting banks, insurers, and supporters of industries polluting gulf communities New York, NY — Community leaders, elders, young people, and families from the U.S. Gulf South will converge on Wall Street to demand that major financial institutions including BlackRock, Bank of America, Citi, Chubb, KKR, Mizuho, …

Cromwell CT – June 20, 2024 – Yesterday, a group of Connecticut climate activists attended the Travelers Championship Golf Tournament Pro Amateur event and handed out golf towels to tournament attendees with the inscription “Dropping Policyholders Is Not a Climate Solution.” More than 100 towels were distributed to the crowd. The New York Times reported …

In Budget Committee Hearing, Senators do a deep dive into the climate crisis’ impact on the insurance industry, finding disturbing systemic impacts that will undermine the system.  WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate Budget Committee on the Budget held a hearing this morning detailing the impacts climate change is having in states across the country. …

Insurance giants AIG, Berkshire Hathaway, Chubb, Fairfax Financial, Markel, The Hartford, and Travelers faced shareholder resolutions, questions from concerned investors and activists, and demonstrations outside of their general meetings. Concerned investors and activists focused their attention on these North American insurers in the past month over insurers’ lack of due diligence with respect to Indigenous …

New criteria falls short of aligning with 1.5°C San Francisco – In a SEC filing of “Additional Proxy Soliciting Materials” Chubb quietly updated its oil, gas, and conservation policies. RAN’s analysis, released ahead of Chubb’s Annual General Meeting Thursday, May 16th, has concluded that while the updates are a small improvement, the loopholes and narrow scope result in policies …

Hartford, CT — Today, Connecticut climate activists returned to the Travelers Annual Shareholder meeting to demand the company take real action on climate change and human rights. Activists from Connecticut Citizen Action Group (CCAG) and Third Act CT circled the Marriott Hotel in Downtown Hartford, while inside, activist shareholders engaged with management on the dangers …

As one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel insurers, insurance giants like Travelers can play a pivotal role in reaching global climate goals. As Travelers prepares for its annual general meeting, it faces a critical moment—yet again—to align its practices with the climate and human rights expectations of today’s workforce and Travelers’ community. Climate-Conscious Students …

Today, as the insurance industry convenes for the first Global Sustainable Insurance Summit in Los Angeles, the 32 campaign groups of the Insure Our Future network have sent a letter to the world’s leading fossil fuel insurers, detailing how they can accelerate the transition to a clean and just energy economy.   Demands in the letter …

The ‘Dirty Dozen’ insurers—that restricted coverage in California citing climate risks—have $113B of investments in and $3.6B of underwriting income from fossil fuels. California homeowners face a potentially staggering economic blow due to climate-related insurance non-renewals. Insure Our Future’s analysis finds homeowners could lose between $9.87-32.1 billion in property value as a result of more …

14 Insurers To Date Have Ruled Out Trans Mountain; 25 Actions Across 4 Continents Call for Remaining Insurers to Drop the Pipeline as Company Faces August 31 Deadline Photos will be available here (password: ranguest) June 16, 2021—As the Trans Mountain pipeline attempts to secure insurance coverage for 2021-2022, Indigenous Peoples, communities, and climate activists …

Argo joins more than ten companies that will not insure Trans Mountain, citing no “risk appetite” for tar sands pipelines.

For more information, contact: Jamie Kalliongis, (314) 651-7497, jamie.kalliongis@sunriseproject.net Photos from Zurich are here Photos from New York are here  May 19, 2021 (New York, NY) — 70 groups delivered a letter today calling on Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg to strengthen Chubb’s weak coal policy and stop insuring new oil and gas. Citizen groups wearing …

“A project which can only be insured secretly has lost its social license to operate.”

Today, 140 organizations representing 24 million people sent a letter to insurers of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Yesterday, Reuters reported that Swiss insurance giant Zurich will stop providing coverage for the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline when its policy expires on August 31.

A new campaign is demanding these companies respect Indigenous rights and drop their coverage.

Global campaign targets Liberty Mutual and remaining insurers of the Canadian tar sands pipeline German insurer Talanx will no longer back Canada’s controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, while Munich Re also signaled it will also drop the project after unveiling a new oil sands policy earlier this year. Subsidiaries of both companies were named on Trans …

In the last six months of 2019, four U.S. insurance companies took encouraging action to limit coal insurance, directly citing the risks of climate change to the economy and society.

Slowly but surely, climate ambition is growing among the U.S. insurance industry. AXIS’ policy is the strongest one yet for a U.S. insurer, as it applies to both tar sands and coal

In this op-ed, a risk management student argues that the insurance industry could help address the climate crisis by refusing to back environmentally-destructive projects.

Tell Liberty Mutual to ditch fossil fuels!