All the headlines from our Coastal Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Mar 17 2010 // Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has vetoed a bill that would have continued a program that designated part of the state’s insurance premium tax to fund the state’s property insurer of last resort.Barbour said...
Mar 7 2010 // The coastal home insurance market continues to tighten. State Farm is only writing a new homeowners policy in Mississippi if another is dropped and Allstate has stopped writing mobile homes on the South Carolina coast....
Mar 2 2010 // The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that “urgent action should...
Mar 1 2010 // Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said a partnership agreement between the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and the South Lafourche Levee District will dedicate $19.8 million in state surplus funds to make...
Jan 24 2010 // A North Carolina appeals court is weighing whether to reverse a decision that resulted in homeowners insurance prices going up by almost 30 percent along the coast and down by a third in inland counties.A three-judge Court...
Jan 19 2010 // A North Carolina appeals court is weighing whether to freeze or even reverse homeowners’ insurance premiums that soared by up to almost 30 percent along the coast while sliding by a third in counties farthest from...
Dec 1 2009 // Insurance rates for about 26,000 State Farm homeowners in three Mississippi coastal counties will rise 19.5 percent beginning in February.Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney announced the rate increase, noting...
Nov 22 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has approved rates hikes for about 330,000 of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s so-called high-risk coastal property accounts. The statewide average increases include a...
Nov 16 2009 // The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for coastal areas of Washington State. The warning covers six areas: San Juan County, Whatcom County, Skagit County, the Adiralty Inlet area, the North Coast, and...
Nov 1 2009 // Though it may seem like the debate over the creation of a national catastrophe insurance plan is a relatively recent phenomenon, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners actually began addressing the issue as...
Oct 8 2009 // The economic outlook should brighten in 2010-2011 for the Mississippi and Alabama coasts, but that’s not the case for the New Orleans area, an economist said this week at a regional economic forum.Lack of business...
Sep 24 2009 // Scientists are surprised at how extensively coastal ice in Antarctica and Greenland is thinning, according to a study on Wednesday that could help predict rising sea levels linked to climate change.Analysis of millions of...