All the headlines from our Coastal Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 18 2007 // Many people along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts still lack a hurricane survival plan and don’t feel vulnerable to storms, despite Katrina’s dramatic damage and pleas from emergency officials for residents to...
Jun 13 2007 // Gov. Mark Sanford signed a bill into law Monday that he says should lower insurance costs for residents along South Carolina’s coast.Sanford’s signature comes three months after the Republican governor and his...
Jun 12 2007 // It took O’Charley’s regional operations director in Hattiesburg, Miss., most of a week to get in touch with the restaurant chain’s Nashville, Tenn. headquarters after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf...
Jun 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America commends Gov. Mark Sanford and the South Carolina Legislature for advancing an agenda of reform aimed at strengthening the state’s coastal insurance market.Today...
Jun 4 2007 // Insureds would receive premium discounts for storm mitigation efforts and be able to establish tax-free personal catastrophe savings accounts while insurers would receive tax breaks for writing coastal properties under...
Jun 4 2007 // Insureds would receive premium discounts for storm mitigation efforts and be able to establish tax-free personal catastrophe savings accounts while insurers would receive tax breaks for writing coastal properties under...
Jun 1 2007 // The South Carolina Senate has approved omnibus legislation that backers hope will ease the insurance cost and availability crunch facing coastal property owners in the state by providing discounts and tax breaks.The...
May 31 2007 // The leaders of a special Rhode Island House commission studying the effects of natural disasters on property insurance costs have introduced legislation they say is aimed at protecting coastal homeowners from...
May 17 2007 // Bermuda-based Ironshore Insurance Ltd. has been approved to provide property and catastrophe insurance on an excess and surplus basis for risks located in the State of South Carolina. Ironshore will provide commercial...
May 15 2007 // Grants to help with post-Katrina revitalization projects in 15 coastal Mississippi communities totaling more than $97.2 million will help fund projects such as new fire stations in Bay St. Louis, Moss Point, Picayune,...
May 15 2007 // Construction of new high-rise developments on vulnerable barrier islands will continue to exacerbate Florida’s property insurance crisis, according to Robert Hartwig, Ph.D., president and chief economist of the...
May 11 2007 // Texas emergency officials are struggling to assure their local counterparts that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won’t damage the state’s ability to respond to a major hurricane striking the Gulf Coast.Local...
May 10 2007 // Residents on the South Carolina coast could see home insurance costs drop with a bill that received key approval Tuesday in the House.The legislation is part of Insurance Director Scott Richardson’s response to...
May 7 2007 // Mississippi insurance regulators have approved a statewide rate increase of 29 percent for Allstate homeowner policyholders, the Northbrook, Ill.-based insurer reported.The company, in a written statement, attributed the...
Apr 23 2007 // TEXAS AG, BERMUDA INSURER Settle $2.1M antitrust suit INSURANCE PLAN FOR LA. Blanco, Donelon promote bills
Apr 23 2007 // The U.S. population in hurricane-prone coastal states continues to rise, a trend that is likely to impact adversely the nation’s coastal property insurance market for years to come, according to Dr. Robert Hartwig,...
Apr 23 2007 // The U.S. population residing in hurricane-prone states continues to rise, a trend which is likely to impact adversely the nation’s coastal property insurance market for years to come, according to testimony by Dr....
Apr 20 2007 // Homeowners on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast face another insurance rate hike in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath.Mississippi insurance regulators this week approved a statewide rate increase of 29 percent for Allstate...
Apr 11 2007 // The private insurance marketplace, not the federal government, is the best vehicle to address coastal insurance issues and natural disasters in the U.S., according to insurers. Even so, the federal government can play a...
Apr 9 2007 // A state-run insurance program has been expanded slightly to provide relief for some South Carolina coastal homeowners grappling with skyrocketing premiums, and Gov. Mark Sanford and other lawmakers promised a tax-incentive...