Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc.
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022)
Reporting Period: 2022
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Environment
- Social
- Governance
Environmental Achievements
- Currently focused on becoming more energy efficient, mitigating and adapting to climate change, conserving water and reducing waste.
Social Achievements
- Emphasis on creating an inclusive equal opportunity workplace and inspiring employees to support community relations.
Governance Achievements
- Committed to creating an ethical and transparent organization.
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Rising reinsurance and loss costs in the property insurance sector.
- Rising inflation in the form of increased labor and material costs, which drive up claim costs.
- Claim costs impacted by litigated claims in Florida.
- Higher reinsurance costs and more constrained availability for catastrophe excess of loss reinsurance.
Mitigation Strategies
- Implementation of increased rates and inflation guard factors.
- Investment in data analytics to continuously evaluate underwriting criteria and manage exposure to catastrophe and other losses.
- Managing exposure by reducing new business written in certain geographies, non-renewing unprofitable business, increasing rates, and narrowing underwriting requirements.
- Carefully managing exposure by reducing new business written in certain geographies, non-renewing unprofitable business in compliance with regulatory requirements, increasing rates, where permitted by regulators, and narrowing our underwriting requirements.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- hurricanes, severe convective storms, tropical storms, snowstorms, tornadoes, earthquakes, hailstorms, explosions, power outages, fires