All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 7 2016 // HCI Group, Inc. (HCI) has appointed Ted Blanch as president of TypTap Insurance Company, HCI’s new online insurance company.Blanch brings years of industry experience to TypTap, which offers an online platform to...
Jun 7 2016 // Insurers will face higher-than-expected claims related to floods in Germany, according to Fitch Ratings, dealing another blow to an industry squeezed by low interest rates and decreasing prices for policies.Claims linked...
Jun 6 2016 // The heavy rain that’s been hovering over parts of southeast and central Texas and caused deadly flooding began to lift on Saturday, June 4, but officials said the flooding emergency near the Gulf Coast was worsening...
Jun 6 2016 // A disorganized Tropical Storm Colin in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to cross Florida overnight threatening evacuations in the state’s northern and central regions before striking the Georgia and South Carolina...
Jun 6 2016 // Insurance executives meet with government officials in Paris Monday to assess the cost of flooding in the Centre and Ile-de-France regions as the Seine river recedes from its highest levels in more than three decades.The...
Jun 6 2016 // South Carolina’s coastal property insurance market is strong, but the state’s significant catastrophe risk remains an ongoing threat and not one that should be taken lightly. That is the message South Carolina...
Jun 6 2016 // Assurant, Inc. has launched Assurant Primary Flood Insurance for Florida customers.The new Assurant Primary Flood Insurance offers structural coverage up to $800,000 and up to $250,000 in contents coverage, at competitive...
Jun 6 2016 // Information about pill shipments that prescription drug distributors being sued by the state had sought to keep secret show that the firms flooded rural West Virginia with hundreds of thousands of painkillers.The...
Jun 6 2016 // South Carolina lawmakers in both the House and Senate voted to override Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto of a bill offering $40 million in state aid to farmers who lost their crops in last year’s massive floods.The...
Jun 3 2016 // The insured property loss estimate for floods that hit the UK from Dec. 4 to 24, 2015, following Storm Desmond and other low pressure systems, has been revised to £597 million ($861.4 million), according to PERILS, the...
Jun 2 2016 // Paris’s Seine River rose to its highest level in more than 34 years, disrupting train traffic and prompting the Louvre museum to shut to move some its artwork from flood-prone storage areas.As torrential rains lashed...
Jun 2 2016 // Residents of some rural southeastern Texas counties are bracing for more flooding along a river that has already reached a record high as more rain was expected in the coming days.Large swaths of suburban communities...
Jun 2 2016 // Torrential rain, thunderstorms and flash floods that have inundated towns in southeastern Germany in recent days took the death toll to at least eight as forecasters warned of continuing severe weather spreading northward...
Jun 2 2016 // Tower Hill Insurance has expanded its residential property insurance coverage offerings in Florida to include stand-alone flood policies with coverage up to $5 million. Standard coverage through the National Flood...
Jun 1 2016 // Residents of some rural southeast Texas counties braced for more flooding along a river that is expected to crest at a record level just two years after it had run dry in places because of drought.National Weather Service...
Jun 1 2016 // The Canadian government needs to do more to mitigate climate disasters such as floods and wildfires, a top green watchdog said on Tuesday as the Alberta town of Fort McMurray struggled to recover from a huge...
May 31 2016 // The operator of a Kentucky spelunking attraction says he is analyzing what happened last week after 19 people barely escaped a flooded cave by trudging through neck-deep water to reach the caverns only exit.David Foster,...
May 31 2016 // Authorities in central Texas have found two more bodies along flooded streams, bringing the death toll from flooding in the state to six.It was unclear Sunday whether a body found in Travis County near Austin was one of...
May 31 2016 // South Carolina’s coastal property insurance market is strong, but the state’s significant catastrophe risk remains an ongoing threat and not one that should be taken lightly. That is the message South Carolina...
May 27 2016 // A citizen’s group and homeowners who have recently suffered repeat flood damage sued Houston, Texas, in federal court, alleging the city backed improvements at a commercial development they say were made without...