All the headlines from our Coastal Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2008 // A hurricane that hit Miami in 1926 would cause up to $157 billion in damage if it were to strike today, according to a recent study.U.S. storm costs are rising because of higher populations and wealth on the coasts, not a...
Mar 3 2008 // Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance, Mike Chaney, and the Mississippi Insurance Department will hold an informational public forum this week for the state’s coastal residents.Featured speakers from the...
Feb 25 2008 // A hurricane that hit Miami in 1926 would cause up to $157 billion in damage if it were to strike today, according to a recent study.U.S. storm costs are rising because of higher populations and wealth on the coasts, not a...
Feb 11 2008 // Phoenix-based MiniCo Inc. reported it signed an agreement with Boulder, Colo.-based International Catastrophe Insurance Managers LLC (ICAT), to begin offering property and wind coverage for coastal locations in Florida,...
Feb 11 2008 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler today accepted Allstate Insurance Co.’s decision to refuse new homeowners’ policies in coastal areas.Tyler said his agency’s hands were effectively tied from...
Jan 30 2008 // The state’s new insurance commissioner says Mississippi Gulf Coast residents can expect an insurance rate increase this year.Commissioner Mike Chaney spoke Monday at the opening of the Insurance Department’s...
Jan 17 2008 // Climate change is having “a significant impact” on the marine environment in the UK, according to a new report from the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP).The organization was established in...
Dec 31 2007 // New leaders tackled old issues and the region battled fire and rain.1. No day at the beach Insurance markets for coastal properties continued to challenge insurers, agents, policymakers and property owners, despite an...
Dec 27 2007 // Acknowledging the ongoing concern over coastal property insurance in his state, Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan maintained that the state’s coastal property insurance market is in pretty good shape...
Dec 23 2007 // Insurance markets for coastal properties continued to challenge insurers, agents, policymakers and property owners, despite an inactive hurricane season. For the most part, while policymakers debated, private markets went...
Dec 17 2007 // Some coastal residents could see a spike in their insurance rates because of a recent decision by the North Carolina Building Code Council.The council toughened the coastal housing code for wind-borne debris. The code now...
Dec 7 2007 // Improvements to New York’s coastal property insurance program and a prohibition against denying some late-reported claims top the list of issues the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New York said it will...
Dec 6 2007 // An exhaustive study of the threat posed by coastal flooding warns that “as many as 150 million people in the world’s major cities could be reliant on flood defenses by 2070 – more than three times the 40...
Dec 4 2007 // As many as 150 million people in the world’s major cities could be reliant on flood defenses by 2070 – more than three times the 40 million people today – as a result of climate change and urban...
Dec 2 2007 // Connecticut consumers dealing with the state’s insurance regulatory agency should be left feeling they were given “mints on their pillow,” according to the no-nonsense man in charge.Insurance Commissioner...
Nov 18 2007 // Disaster legislation is hot on the minds of congressional leaders this month as a handful of bills made their way to both the House and the Senate addressing the issue. Some legislation takes aim at making the property...
Nov 12 2007 // The nation’s reinsurance industry is criticizing Congressional natural disaster legislation as raising false hopes about addressing the homeowners insurance market in areas prone to hurricanes, at the expense of U.S....
Nov 5 2007 // Homeowners and businesses are finding it harder to afford, or even obtain, insurance in coastal states after catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina, and global warming is going to make the situation worse, according to a...
Nov 4 2007 // Natural catastrophes — and the affordability and availability of property insurance in disaster-prone areas — have been on center stage in coastal states from the Northeast to the Gulf Coast. This fall, the...
Nov 1 2007 // Some 3,305 coastal residents in New York whose homeowners insurance policies had not been renewed by Liberty Mutual partly because they did not have other policies with the company – such as life or automobile...