All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 13 2017 // As Florida residents return home after being evacuated by Hurricane Irma, the pressure is on the insurance industry to keep a bad situation regarding assignment of benefits abuse in the state from getting worse.Florida...
Sep 13 2017 // I wasn’t planning on writing about hurricane season again, but circumstances made it feel like the right thing to do. This hurricane season is already memorable, and it’s still got over two months to go. The...
Sep 12 2017 // In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is calling for the construction of flood control infrastructure in the Houston area — things he said should have been built “decades and decades...
Sep 11 2017 // Storm-shocked Floridians returned to shattered homes on Monday as the remnants of Hurricane Irma pushed inland, leaving more than half of all state residents without power and city streets underwater from Orlando and...
Sep 11 2017 // Louisiana residents who had damage from last summer’s widespread flooding have more time to submit the proof of loss form required for a flood insurance claim.The deadline’s been extended until the end of the...
Sep 11 2017 // Bryan Harvey is frequently reminded that he shares a name with the storm that dumped 50 inches of rain on metropolitan Houston and unleashed the floods that have him working 14-hour days towing water-logged cars.Even in...
Sep 11 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.As hurricane Harvey made landfall north of Corpus Christi last week, this Category 4 hurricane left devastation in its wake. CoreLogic® estimates that the total...
Sep 11 2017 // Insurers jumped in markets from Europe to Florida amid signs that predictions about Hurricane Irma’s damage were excessively dire.Giant reinsurers like Swiss Re and Munich Re, which shoulder risks for local insurers...
Sep 11 2017 // In Maryland, which historically has ducked many of the worst storms of the last 50 years, the question is increasingly not if, but when the next big one will strike. And while some believe the state has often been spared...
Sep 11 2017 // Insurers are scrambling to find inspectors in Texas and Florida after fierce hurricanes battered the states one after the other, causing tens of billions of dollars’ worth of property damage in less than two...
Sep 11 2017 // President Donald Trump last Friday signed legislation reauthorizing the National Flood Insurance Program until Dec. 8, 2017, which buys more time for Congress to consider reforms of the program.The NFIP was set to expire...
Sep 11 2017 // Prospect General Insurance Agency has expanded Flood Guard, an admitted residential flood insurance product, into Utah.Flood Guard is an alternative to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Through its rating...
Sep 10 2017 // Downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, Irma flooded several northern Florida cities with heavy rain and a high storm surge on Monday as it headed out of the state after cutting power to millions and ripping roofs...
Sep 8 2017 // A week before Hurricane Harvey walloped Houston, workers for Union Pacific Corp. began moving rail cars out of the railroad’s Englewood switching yard near downtown and brought in enough generators to fill 70 tractor...
Sep 8 2017 // How do you remove hundreds of thousands of damaged cars from a massive city still mired in water and muck? Tow-truck driver Alex Toll will tell you: one vehicle at a time.Toll is part of an army of more than 1,000 tow...
Sep 8 2017 // Federal prosecutors will lead a new Houston-based group created to help law enforcement agencies respond to an inevitable wave of fraud and other criminal activity set off by Harvey’s punishing rains.Authorities are...
Sep 8 2017 // Traveling from Louisiana, four 18-wheelers and more than a dozen workers rolled into the heart of Houston last Tuesday morning. The Cajun crew was there to unfurl and install a unique form of flood protection: three-foot...
Sep 7 2017 // The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency will run out of disaster assistance funding on Friday unless Congress approves more money, two Florida senators warned on Thursday.As Hurricane Irma barrels through the...
Sep 7 2017 // New York is reviewing its plans for a massive rainstorm after the flooding that has left parts of Houston underwater for days.“We’re looking at what a Harvey-type event would mean in New York City,” said...
Sep 7 2017 // Boston-based catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has estimated property losses from the flooding in Texas caused by Hurricane Harvey’s record-breaking rainfall will be between $65 billion and $75 billion.These...