All the headlines from our Catastrophe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 9 2022 // With just over three weeks to go until the official end of the 2022 North Atlantic Hurricane season, Subtropical Storm Nicole – the fourteenth named storm of the year, could be a rarely seen event – a hurricane in...
Nov 8 2022 // Insurers have paid or reserved to pay $13.9 billion on all types of Hurricane Ida-related claims in Louisiana through September 30, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced today. This data is the final measure of...
Nov 8 2022 // One of the largest providers of reinsurance for Florida carriers is predicting major increases in rates next year, a move that could add fuel to the fire for a reform package at the upcoming special session of the Florida...
Nov 7 2022 // Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance business recorded an after-tax underwriting loss of $962 million (a pre-tax loss of $1.15 billion) in the third quarter, a decrease of $178 million from 2021, as catastrophe losses and...
Nov 7 2022 // A federal court in late October found the US government liable for $455,000 in damages to six claimants whose homes were flooded by water backed up behind two dams near Houston during Hurricane Harvey — but that’s...
Nov 7 2022 // Residents in southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas began assessing weather damage Saturday, working to recover and thankful to have survived after a storm stretching from Dallas to northwest Arkansas spawned...
Nov 7 2022 // A wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and businesses in suburban Denver last winter caused more than $2 billion in losses, making it by far the costliest in Colorado history, the state insurance commissioner...
Nov 7 2022 // Manuel and Marcy Silva combed through the charred rubble that used to be their home, searching for any salvageable bits in the wake of the largest wildfire in New Mexico history.Manuel found two of his high school...
Nov 7 2022 // A federal judge in Louisiana is threatening to fine a Houston-based law firm $200 for each duplicate or baseless lawsuit he finds among the 1,642 that the firm has filed against insurers for alleged hurricane damages.US...
Nov 4 2022 // Hurricane Ian not only ravaged southwest Florida on land but was destructive underwater as well. It destroyed man-made reefs and brought along red tide, the harmful algae blooms that kill fish and birds, according to...
Nov 3 2022 // Lisa weakened into a tropical storm as it moved across Belize Wednesday, leaving much of the country’s largest city in the dark, although there were no reports of deaths or major damage so far in the Caribbean nation...
Nov 3 2022 // In an Executive Order dated September 25, California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed all agencies of state government to double down on their efforts to address climate change. The governor, state agencies and the Legislature...
Nov 2 2022 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reminding flood insurance policyholders hit by Hurricane Ian that they have an extra three months to renew their expiring policies.The agency said last week that Florida property...
Nov 1 2022 // Residents and businesses are cleaning up after at least five tornadoes touched down in a severe weather outbreak along the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast.No injuries or deaths were reported after the Saturday twisters....
Nov 1 2022 // Initial insurance industry losses from Typhoon No. 14, aka Nanmadol, which hit Japan in September 2022, are an estimated 114 billion Japanese yen (US$768 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based...
Nov 1 2022 // Tropical Storm Lisa has spun up in the Caribbean Sea south of Jamaica, on track to strike Belize late Wednesday as the 12th storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season.Lisa’s top winds have reached 40 miles...
Oct 31 2022 // A wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and businesses in suburban Denver last winter caused more than $2 billion in losses, making it by far the costliest in Colorado history, the state insurance commissioner...
Oct 31 2022 // Survivors of storms that pounded several U.S. states say the nation’s disaster aid system is broken and that they want reforms to get money into victims’ hands faster, with less red tape.On the 10th anniversary...
Oct 30 2022 // It has been a month since Hurricane Ian wiped out parts of southwest Florida. Now multimillion-dollar cleanup contracts are generating new tempests in the Category 4 storm’s wake.Contractors who remove debris and...
Oct 28 2022 // The enormous amount of uninsured loss from Hurricane Ian will lead to a “veritable swamp” of trial lawyers waiting to sue the insurance industry, according to one industry expert at AAIS Pulse.“This could...