All the headlines from our Coastal Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 10 2011 // The oil industry may be to blame for millions of dollars of damage and lost business along Alabama’s coast but it’s the insurance industry that holds the key to the state’s coastal recovery.This truth is...
Jan 4 2011 // Eighty-five South Carolina homeowners who live on the coast are the latest recipients of grants to help them strengthen their homes against storms.Scott H. Richardson, state insurance commissioner, said the SC Safe Home...
Dec 22 2010 // Windstorm claims from Hurricane Ike continue to be reported more than two years after the storm made landfall. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) continues to average receiving at least one new claim every...
Dec 21 2010 // Coastal Alabama should seize the BP Gulf oil disaster as an opportunity for “resiliency planning” that will not only help the region recover from the oil damage but also put it in a position to better recover...
Oct 18 2010 // A key trade group for insurance agents in New York is lauding a proposal by regulators to reform the coastal homeowners insurance market in the state.The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY)...
Oct 7 2010 // An insurer specializing in pricey properties is moving into North Carolina with a particular eye toward coastal real estate.Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) offers its homeowners insurance policies for...
Oct 1 2010 // A world-class convention center in Gulf Shores. Low-fare airline service at Mobile Regional Airport. A permanent solution to Alabama’s coastal insurance crisis.Those ideas and dozens more were flying through the fall...
Oct 1 2010 // A key trade group for insurance agents in New York is lauding a proposal by regulators to reform the coastal homeowners insurance market in the state.The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY)...
Sep 27 2010 // Insurers are blasting a proposal by New York regulators to reform the state’s coastal homeowners insurance market, a plan one exec called “a solution in search of a problem.”“The insurance industry...
Sep 23 2010 // New York insurance regulators are proposing a new set of consumer protection measures as part of a package of rules aimed at improving the availability and pricing of homeowners insurance in high-risk areas along the...
Jul 5 2010 // As the hurricane season gains momentum, a new U.S. Census Bureau report, Coastline Population Trends in the United States: 1960 to 2008, helps put into perspective the number of Americans living along the coast who could...
May 20 2010 // Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, District Attorney Joe Waitz has filed suit against oil giant BP, seeking money for wildlife killed or hurt by the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.The lawsuit, filed May 17, is among the...
May 17 2010 // A newly-formed Mississippi company with backing from a Florida insurer and local private investors including six independent agencies will begin writing homeowners policies on the coast in Mississippi.Gulfport-based...
May 17 2010 // Homeowners can mitigate against wind damage, but they’re powerless, really, to do anything against storm surge,” said one researcher whose job it is to develop ways to determine the vulnerability of homes and...
May 10 2010 // New York lawmakers hold a roundtable discussion today with insurance agents and industry leaders over the difficulties facing the coastal homeowners insurance market.The meeting at the state legislature was called for by...
May 3 2010 // The North Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1 and lasts through November 30. Facts from the U.S. Census Bureau highlight the number of people living in areas that could be most affected by these dramatic acts of...
Apr 30 2010 // “Homeowners can mitigate against wind damage, but they’re powerless, really, to do anything against storm surge,” says one researcher whose job it is to develop ways to determine the vulnerability of...
Apr 29 2010 // A newly-formed Mississippi company with backing from a Florida insurer and local private investors including six independent agencies will begin writing homeowners policies on the coast in Mississippi.Gulfport-based...
Apr 20 2010 // The North Carolina Court of Appeals has declined to upset a 2008 agreement between the state’s former insurance commissioner and insurers that hiked insurance rates for some coastal homeowners up to 30 percent and...
Mar 22 2010 // In the wake of last month’s tsunami in Chile and less than six months after a tsunami hit American Samoa — both events that resulted in loss of life and property — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric...