All the headlines from our Catastrophe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 3 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a notice to all California property/casualty insurance companies urging them to cover additional living expenses for policyholders who remain under mandatory evacuation...
Sep 3 2020 // Growing numbers of Louisiana residents are turning to the state to find a place to stay after Hurricane Laura ravaged the state’s southwestern region, wrecking homes, ripping away roofs and leaving hundreds of...
Sep 3 2020 // State authorities have released new simulations that show how a powerful tsunami could overwhelm Washington state’s coastal and shoreline communities.The Department of Natural Resources says there are some locations...
Sep 2 2020 // Several major wildfire bills were left on the table when the California Legislature ended its session earlier this week, but one bill is expected to make a comeback in some form.Assembly Bill 2167, authored by Assemblyman...
Sep 2 2020 // A southwest Mississippi city has paid $1.45 million to clean up from an April 23 tornado and now awaits reimbursement from federal and state disaster agency.The Enterprise-Journal reports McComb made its final payment to a...
Sep 1 2020 // The Colorado State Forest Service has launched a wildland-urban interface risk index.The county-by-county index uses housing density combined with modeled fire behavior to determine where the greatest potential impact to...
Sep 1 2020 // The federal government will begin offering low-interest loans to homeowners and small business owners who were impacted by North Carolina’s earthquake.The Winston-Salem Journal reports that the U.S. Small Business...
Sep 1 2020 // Hazardous emissions from a chlorine plant fire, abruptly shuttered oil and gas refineries and still-to-be assessed plant damage are seeping into the air after Hurricane Laura, regulators say, but some key state and federal...
Sep 1 2020 // An earthquake rated with a preliminary magnitude of 3.7 struck near Marked Tree in northeastern Arkansas, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck just after 9:30 p.m. Saturday near Marked Tree, about 120...
Sep 1 2020 // A firefighter was killed and another injured Monday battling a wildfire in the Northern California forest, authorities said.The firefighter was killed in Mendocino National Forest north of San Francisco, where a wildfire...
Sep 1 2020 // While few, if any, organizations saw the coronavirus pandemic and all of its death and disruption coming, some were better positioned to deal with it than others.According to risk expert Jim Wetekamp, some organizations...
Sep 1 2020 // With hurricane season barreling down on Florida, the state is seizing on low interest rates to borrow $2.25 billion for its catastrophe insurance fund.The State Board of Administration Finance Corp. is joining state and...
Aug 31 2020 // Estimates for insured property losses associated with Hurricane Laura by catastrophe risk modeling firms Air Worldwide and Karen Clark and Co. (KCC) are similar — both fall into the $8 billion range — but they are not...
Aug 31 2020 // It is only a simulation. It’s also the worst-case scenario. One day, it could be reality.“Hurricane Phoenix” is the hypothetical disaster that would change life in the Tampa Bay area forever. Imagine a...
Aug 31 2020 // Insurance adjusters who descended on Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after the Aug. 10 derecho storm are using drones to check roofs and asking homeowners with less severe damage to take their own photos.Some of this is due to the...
Aug 30 2020 // A chlorine chemical fire that erupted last Thursday, triggering shelter-in-place orders and closing roadways in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, has been brought under control, the plant’s owner said on Friday.KIK...
Aug 28 2020 // Property information, analytics and data provider, CoreLogic, has estimated residential and commercial insured losses from Hurricane Laura in Louisiana and Texas will come in at between $8 billion and $12 billion.That...
Aug 28 2020 // Hurricane Laura tore through Louisiana on Thursday, killing six people and flattening buildings across a wide swatch of the state before moving into Arkansas with heavy rains.Laura’s powerful gusts uprooted trees...
Aug 28 2020 // Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Thursday asked residents in three southwestern communities to stay indoors with windows and doors shut as a plume rose from a chemical fire at a Biolab plant in an area hit by...
Aug 28 2020 // A destructive storm rising from warm waters. Again.America and the world are getting more frequent and bigger multibillion dollar tropical catastrophes like Hurricane Laura, which menaced the U.S. Gulf Coast, because of a...