avoid risk

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The insurer told state regulators in 2024 that it planned to drop about 30,000 residential policies in California, including 69% of its policies in Pacific Palisades, an increasingly common move by insurers to avoid risk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

This is the willingness to avoid risk by, for example, obtaining insurance.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

Shaffer said it was more likely the banks would cut ties with groups that enable sanctions violations to maintain good relations with American banks and avoid risk.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024

“Changing established systems and behaviors is never easy, but this is the choice we must make if we want to avoid risk tipping points,” the authors state.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023

Tversky and Kahneman conclude that people tend to avoid risk when seeking gains, but choose risk to avoid losses.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos