All the headlines from our Coastal Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 25 2023 // ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia experienced flooding Saturday after Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island, bringing rain, damaging...
Aug 28 2023 // The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state can continue work on a new bridge that will give motorists an alternate route to state beaches.Justices reversed an injunction issued by a Montgomery judge that had...
Aug 4 2023 // Birmingham-based Valent Group, an insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Coastal Professional Insurance Inc., an independent agency in Mobile, Alabama. Coastal, or CPI, has been in the business for...
Aug 1 2023 // Six months after its namesake insurance carrier was deemed insolvent, United Insurance Holdings is rebranding itself in the name of its surviving insurer, as American Coastal Insurance Corp.The St. Petersburg,...
Jul 24 2023 // Many of the lowest-lying coastal areas of the Southeastern United States, including some heavily populated parts of Florida, will be subject to increased annual flooding in less than 30 years, according to scenarios mapped...
Jul 21 2023 // Insured losses from hurricanes have risen steadily over just the past 15 years, with nine of the 10 costliest hurricanes in U.S. history occurring since 2005, according to the Insurance Information Institute...
Jun 9 2023 // A divided Alabama Supreme Court on Friday declined to lift a preliminary injunction blocking construction of a new coastal bridge.Justices in a 5-3 decision declined the emergency request from the Alabama Department of...
Oct 17 2022 // A storm packing strong winds and heavy rain lashed the New England coast on Friday with the greatest impact in Maine, where more than 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. The storm brought a gust of 72 mph (116 kph),...
Oct 5 2022 // Hurricane Ian is going to affect commercial and personal property rates “significantly” – not just in Florida, predicted MarketScout.The Dallas-based insurance distribution and underwriting company released...
Aug 11 2022 // There’s a new option to escape a tsunami for people on the southwest coast of Washington.The Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe dedicated a 50-foot tall evacuation tower in Tokeland, Washington, the Northwest News Network...
Aug 3 2022 // Louisiana has completed one of its biggest coastal restoration projects yet, and is at work on even bigger ones.The dredge used to suck up sediment from the Gulf of Mexico to add 1,000 acres (405 hectares) of habitat to...
Jun 29 2022 // Starting Friday, July 1, state and local governments will have to conduct a sea-level impact study if they build anything near Florida’s coastline, the result of a state law passed in 2020.Although the law applies...
Apr 29 2022 // Cross Insurance announced the acquisition of Newburyport, Massachusetts-based Harold Humphrey Insurance Agency, Inc. and its sister agency, Byfield Insurance Agency, Inc., both offering personal and small business...
Jan 11 2022 // Despite studies showing a new federal flood-risk rating is more equitable and accurate, opposition to higher flood insurance rates continues to build in some parts of the country.In coastal Harrison County, Mississippi,...
Nov 16 2021 // Members of Congress are still bickering over the wisdom of passing a $1 trillion infrastructure package, but Louisiana lawmakers and state officials have moved to developing plans for spending the influx of cash for roads,...
Oct 18 2021 // While lawmakers from various coastal states are decrying the new flood insurance rating system rolled out by FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) on Oct. 1, Michigan insurance regulators expect Risk Rating...
Sep 15 2021 // The University of New Hampshire has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to study how and why coastal hazards like excessive flooding are causing roads to crack and crumble. “We’re trying to better understand the...
Sep 13 2021 // Authorities in Shanghai and neighboring coastal regions canceled flights, and suspended schools, subways and trains as Typhoon Chanthu approached China after drenching Taiwan though causing little damage there.The storm,...
Aug 24 2021 // The Coastal Windstorm Insurance Coalition in Texas is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.Established originally as the Windstorm Action Committee in Galveston, the coalition has expanded in recent years to include...
Jun 23 2021 // California wildfires were burning in tinder dry vegetation in rugged central coast mountains and near an Eastern Sierra trailhead where hikers begin treks to the summit of Mount Whitney.More than 500 firefighters were...