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The safety and insurance claims arising from such fires must be also addressed.
Considered, maybe. I am not hearing any alarm bells from insurance companies, and when it is they who have to pay when things go up in smoke, and they are the masters (and mistresses) of worst-case scenarios, you have to wonder how great the threat really is.
As discussed elsewhere on this website, petrol-drive cars are much more likely to catch fire, and battery fires may be harder to put out, but they tend not to explode in high-octane balls of fire. Hybrid cars are another matter.
But it’s a case of “choose your risk factor”. Nobody is telling buildings with flammable cladding to get smokers and barbecues off their balconies.