All the headlines from our Coastal Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2007 // The head of Alabama’s teachers’ organization is concerned that legislation designed to improve the availability of insurance along the Alabama coast could have another effect – eliminating tax dollars for...
Oct 11 2007 // New York lawmakers are considering taking action to improve coastal insurance availability while insurance agents are telling them they fear market restrictions are worsening.Insurance companies, meanwhile, claim the...
Oct 8 2007 // The need for solutions to address insurance costs and availability in natural catastrophe-vulnerable U.S. coastal regions — including a federal safety net — was the general theme at a public hearing in Mobile,...
Oct 8 2007 // A major hurricane making landfall in Massachusetts could cause billions of dollars worth of property damage while also severely straining the resources of the state’s residual homeowners’ insurance market, the...
Oct 8 2007 // Proponents push plans for natural catastrophe insurance solutionsFederal backstop proposals aired at NAIC public hearing in Alabama The need for solutions to address insurance costs and availability in natural...
Oct 2 2007 // Alabama legislators unveiled a law designed to help the Gulf Coast real estate industry and coastal homeowners hit by high insurance rates but Gov. Bob Riley said there is no current consensus to address it in a special...
Sep 28 2007 // The National Flood Insurance Program is over $17 billion in debt according to the American Academy of Actuaries, adding further anxiety to a proposal to add wind peril coverage to the national plan.While the U.S. House of...
Sep 26 2007 // Whether the nation needs a federal or other governmental program to deal with insurance costs and availability for natural catastrophes in U.S. coastal states was the central question at a public hearing in Mobile, Ala.,...
Sep 24 2007 // Owners of thousands of condominiums that line the Alabama Gulf Coast say they’re getting burned by soaring insurance premiums and insurance legislation to make coverage available and affordable on the coast...
Sep 24 2007 // Owners of thousands of condominiums that line the Alabama Gulf Coast say they’re getting burned by soaring insurance premiums and insurance legislation to make coverage available and affordable on the coast...
Sep 21 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon and state regulators from Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina will host a public hearing Sept. 24 on insurance issues affecting the Gulf Coast.The event is...
Sep 21 2007 // National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) President and Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell, along with other members of the NAIC’s Southeastern Zone, is holding a public hearing to address...
Sep 20 2007 // A major hurricane making landfall in Massachusetts could cause billions of dollars worth of property damage while also severely straining the resources of the state’s residual homeowners’ insurance market, the...
Sep 11 2007 // In testimony today before the North Carolina Building Code Council, the American Insurance Association urged that stronger hurricane resistant construction standards be required for all areas of the coast vulnerable to...
Sep 5 2007 // Washington’s low-lying capital city is a bit nervous in planning a new $38 million City Hall near the shoreline of Puget Sound, fearing that global warming and rising waters could submerge much of the downtown in...
Sep 4 2007 // As Labor Day tourists take an end-of-summer beach trip, owners of thousands of condominiums that line the Alabama Gulf Coast say they’re getting burned by soaring insurance premiums.Insurance legislation aimed at...
Sep 3 2007 // Southern governors and insurance executives met late last month in Biloxi, Miss., about the challenges of keeping insurance coverage in coastal areas that are vulnerable to hurricanes, but they reached no consensus on how...
Sep 3 2007 // Southern governors and insurance executives met late last month in Biloxi, Miss., about the challenges of keeping insurance coverage in coastal areas that are vulnerable to hurricanes, but they reached no consensus on how...
Aug 29 2007 // Insurance companies in New York may not refuse to renew homeowners insurance policies based on whether a policyholder has other business such as an auto or life policy with them, under a new order from the state insurance...
Aug 27 2007 // A national independent agency leader is urging Southern governors to use their “bully pulpits” to bring together the leaders in the insurance industry and help restore competition as they look for ways to ease...