All the headlines from our Catastrophe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 30 2025 // “The reports that are coming in are catastrophic,” Daryl Vaz, Jamaica’s Minister of Transport, Telecommunications and Energy, told Sky News Australia in a televised interview on Tuesday. “Not very...
Oct 30 2025 // The devastation from Hurricane Melissa came into focus after the record-setting storm moved past Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba with at least 33 deaths and almost $8 billion of damage in its wake.Across the Caribbean, the...
Oct 29 2025 // Southern California Edison said on Wednesday it would pay several million dollars each to families who lost loved ones in the January wildfires that scorched 14,000 acres in greater Los Angeles and destroyed thousands of...
Oct 29 2025 // Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful category 5 storm – a record for the Caribbean island nation — which brought storm surge, torrential rain, strong winds and massive damages.Making landfall...
Oct 29 2025 // Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba less than a day after it became the strongest recorded storm to strike Jamaica, where it left hundreds of thousands without power and forced hospitals to evacuate.Melissa crossed the...
Oct 29 2025 // Recent cyberattacks on public defenders’ offices in multiple Western US states have spotlighted the technological vulnerabilities of an often overlooked but critical part of the US judicial system.Public defenders,...
Oct 28 2025 // Investors in Jamaica’s catastrophe bond now face a full trigger event that would force payment of the entire $150 million bond to help the island deal with fallout from Hurricane Melissa.That’s according to...
Oct 28 2025 // Europe may soon get its first exchange-traded fund based on catastrophe bonds.An application to register the ETF was filed in Ireland, according to Rick Pagnani, co-founder and chief executive officer of King Ridge Capital...
Oct 28 2025 // Hurricane Melissa is churning toward Jamaica as the island’s worst-ever storm, with high winds and flooding rains already pummeling coastal areas in the hours before landfall.Melissa’s top winds reached 185...
Oct 28 2025 // Investors in a catastrophe bond tied to Jamaica look set to experience a trigger event as Hurricane Melissa barrels toward the Caribbean island as a Category 5 storm.“Based on current models there is a high chance...
Oct 27 2025 // Hurricane Melissa plowed toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm, threatening to bring widespread destruction to the island.Melissa’s top winds reached 165 miles (266 kilometers) per hour, up from 160 mph...
Oct 27 2025 // One or more intruders broke into an Iowa mink farm and released 2,000 of the furbearing animals in what a trade group called a “terrorist act” under federal law.Sometime between last Monday night and Tuesday...
Oct 23 2025 // Tropical Storm Melissa began dumping heavy rain on Hispaniola on Tuesday as forecasters warned of a significant flood risk in parts of the Caribbean region later this week.The rains snarled traffic in the Dominican...
Oct 23 2025 // Insurance industry trades praised a Senate committee for the passage this week of the Fix Our Forests Act, a measure to address high-risk wildfire regions.“The risk of wildfire can no longer be ignored or...
Oct 21 2025 // The seemingly unstoppable rise of catastrophe bonds may now be eroding the market share of reinsurers.After years of raising prices, reinsurers are finding that primary insurers have started relying less on them and more...
Oct 20 2025 // Criminal charges have been dropped against a Florida man who authorities said abandoned his tied-up dog in floodwaters near a highway as residents evacuated Florida’s Gulf Coast last year shortly before Hurricane...
Oct 16 2025 // Third quarter net income at The Travelers Cos. increased 50% compared with the same period a year ago, to about $1.9 billion on lower catastrophe losses.Catastrophe losses for the third quarter this year were $402 million...
Oct 16 2025 // The cybersecurity company F5 Inc. said nation-state hackers breached its networks, gaining “long-term, persistent access” to certain systems and stealing some source code. The breach prompted alerts from...
Oct 15 2025 // One person was dead and two were missing in western Alaska after the remnants of Typhoon Halong over the weekend brought hurricane-force winds and ravaging storm surges and floodwaters that swept some homes away,...
Oct 10 2025 // La Nina, the cooler and at times costlier flip side of El Nino, has arrived to warp weather worldwide, meteorologists said Thursday. This natural weather phenomenon often turbocharges the Atlantic hurricane season, but...