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#1 Rebuilding from Hurricanes Hinges on Immigrants at Center of US Election

Oct 28 2024 // The efforts to rebuild in Southeastern states after a pair of destructive hurricanes are at risk of being drawn out by shortages of a critical supply of workers: migrants.Builders are anxious about proposals laid out by...

#2 Allstate Turns in Net Income of $1.2B After Q3 Hurricanes

Oct 31 2024 // Allstate Corp. said its net income attributable to common shareholders for the third quarter was about $1.2 billion compared to a loss of $41 million during the same time a year ago.The Northbrook, Illinois-based insurer...

#3 Liberty Mutual Quadruples Q3 Net Income Despite Catastrophe Losses

Nov 7 2024 // Liberty Mutual Holding Company said consolidated third quarter net income more than quadrupled to $897 million compared to $215 million during the same period a year ago.Catastrophe losses remained elevated at nearly $1.1...

#4 Spain’s Hurricane Katrina Moment Saw Officials Ignoring Warnings

Nov 8 2024 // As a deadly storm bore down on Valencia on Oct. 29, the regional president was attending a ceremony to recognize his work on sustainable tourism.Three hours earlier, Spain’s national climate agency had issued a red...

#5 Will People Leave Florida After Hurricanes? History Suggests Not

Nov 4 2024 // ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The news rippled through Treasure Island, Florida, almost like a third storm: The mayor planned to move off the barrier island a month after Hurricane Helene flooded tens of thousands of homes along...

#6 AIG CEO Zaffino on Approach to Catastrophe Losses in Today’s Reinsurance Market

Nov 6 2024 // American International Group CEO Peter Zaffino said he expects the reinsurance market’s attachment points to remain on top of losses generated by the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes.Losses will instead...

#7 Florida Citizens’ Brass Tired of ‘Clickbait’ News on its Hurricane Claims Denials

Nov 22 2024 // Officials with Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. took issue Thursday with a number of national and Florida news reports that have suggested that the insurer has the “worst rate” on paying claims...

#8 Driver Dies in Crash Off Hurricane-Damaged North Carolina Highway

Nov 15 2024 // A driver has died after going around a barricade and driving off the edge of a hurricane-damaged North Carolina highway that became a symbol of Hurricane Helene’s destruction.Photos of Interstate 40 with multiple...

#9 Claims From Hurricane Milton Continue to Rise in Florida

Nov 4 2024 // Two weeks after Hurricane Milton made landfall near Sarasota, Florida, as a Category 3 storm, claims and loss totals continue to rise. As of Oct. 21, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation said carriers reported more...

#10 Global Natural Catastrophe Insured Losses Exceed $102B During Q1-Q3 2024: Aon

Oct 29 2024 // The third quarter of 2024 saw a significant number of natural disaster events, which drove year-to date economic losses above at least $258 billion and insured losses of at least $102 billion, according to Aon plc in its...

#11 California Wildfire Destroys 243 Structures, Cancellation Moratorium Issued

Nov 18 2024 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance companies to preserve residential insurance coverage for more than 200,000 policyholders affected by the Mountain Fire,...

#12 Catastrophe-Bond Funds Suffered Virtually No Losses From Hurricane Milton

Oct 25 2024 // After two weeks of number-crunching, it now seems clear that investors in catastrophe bonds emerged from Hurricane Milton relatively unscathed.In fact, holders of the bonds may be looking at returns of as much as 12%,...

#13 AI Weather Models Have Shown Promise This Hurricane Season

Nov 19 2024 // When Hurricane Beryl was rushing across the Atlantic basin in July, the weather forecasting tool made by Google Deepmind, the tech company’s artificial intelligence unit, saw something other models missed....

#14 Delta Sues CrowdStrike Over ‘Catastrophic’ Software Glitch

Oct 29 2024 // Delta Air Lines Inc. sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. over the chaos caused this summer by a “catastrophic” software update that disabled millions of computers worldwide and grounded much of...

#15 Storm-Weary Philippines Forcibly Evacuates Thousands as Another Typhoon Hits

Nov 12 2024 // A new typhoon barreled across an agricultural region in the northeastern Philippines on Monday after thousands were evacuated to safety while still struggling to recover from the devastation caused by three successive...

#16 Hurricane Helene Isn’t the Only Big Storm North Carolina Is Recovering From

Nov 20 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Almost two months after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on western North Carolina, Republican lawmakers grilled officials Monday over how they handled two other hurricanes that hit the state several...

#17 Regional Banks With Florida Operations Brace for Loan Defaults After Hurricanes

Nov 1 2024 // Several regional lenders allocated loan-loss provisions in the third quarter to cover potential defaults by borrowers grappling with recent hurricanes, primarily in Florida, highlighting the risks extreme weather and...

#18 Allstate October Catastrophe Losses of $286M Include Milton, Helene

Nov 21 2024 // Allstate today said it estimated pretax catastrophe losses of $286 million for the month of October.Losses during October included $102 million, pretax, from Hurricane Milton as well as $144 million in unfavorable reserve...

#19 Washington Commissioner: Most Homes in 2023 Wildfire Were Underinsured

Oct 29 2024 // An analysis of the claims paid out after the Gray and Oregon Road fires in Washington last year found that most of the homes destroyed were underinsured.The fires destroyed 366 homes, burning more than 20,000 acres outside...

#20 15 Homes Evacuated as Crews Battle Another Wildfire in New Jersey

Nov 8 2024 // The latest forest fire to break out in New Jersey spurred authorities to evacuate more than a dozen homes Wednesday as crews worked to contain the blaze, but no injuries or property damage has been reported.The New Jersey...