{"id":90082,"date":"2025-08-24T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90082"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:31:42","slug":"are-natural-disasters-driving-up-the-price-of-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/are-natural-disasters-driving-up-the-price-of-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Are natural disasters driving up the price of insurance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k1jHveK8TnVwBzDHSeQ\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nYes, natural disasters are driving up insurance prices and making coverage harder to find by increasing the cost and frequency of damage from extreme weather events. Insurers are responding by raising premiums, tightening underwriting, and limiting coverage in high-risk areas to manage their escalating financial risks.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, natural disasters are driving up insurance prices and making coverage harder to find by increasing the cost and frequency of damage from extreme weather events. Insurers are responding by raising premiums, tightening underwriting, and limiting coverage in high-risk areas to manage their escalating financial risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[7917,38161,9177],"class_list":["post-90082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-insurance","tag-natural-disasters","tag-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90084,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90082\/revisions\/90084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}