All the headlines from our Coastal Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 22 2004 // Massachusetts officials, searching for ways to ease a homeowners insurance availability crisis on Cape Cod and other coastal areas, are researching how Florida dealt with its insurance difficulties 10 years ago when it set...
Mar 2 2004 // Louisiana State Sen. James David Cain, R-Dry Creek, the chairman of a state Senate committee on insurance wants to study the costs of coastal erosion on homeowners’ insurance rates. According to the Associated Press,...
Jan 26 2004 // If the Professional Insurance Agents of Louisiana, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Louisiana (IIABL) and Louisiana’s insurance commissioner have their way, the state will soon be flooded with insurers...
Jul 23 2003 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long and State Senator Scott Thomas announced a new law which is expected to alleviate the homeowners insurance crisis currently felt by residents of North Carolina’s 18...
Jun 25 2003 // A Louisiana bill that would overhaul the state’s FAIR and Coastal plans passed both the Senate and House and is headed to Gov. Mike Foster’s desk for his signature.House Bill 1788, which creates the Louisiana...
May 6 2003 // The Louisiana House Insurance Committee approved a bill combining the Coastal and FAIR Plans, two of the state’s so-called “insurers of last resort,” under a new state-created entity called the Louisiana...
Oct 8 2002 // The latest version of a coastal insurance bill requires that the North Carolina Beach Plan provide a homeowners policy with rates that are not “inadequate, excessive or unfairly discriminatory,” and which must...
Jul 10 2000 // One out of every four houses within 500 feet of the U.S. shoreline will become a casualty of erosion within the next 60 years.This hard-hitting fact is among many included in the report, Evaluation of Erosion Hazards,...
Jun 27 2000 // A study by the Federal Emergency Management Agency shows that 25 percent of the buildings within 500 feet of the country’s coastlines will be threatened by erosion in the next 60 years. The study, released Tuesday,...