All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 28 2012 // Plans to provide nearly $500,000 in state funds that would help a northern New Jersey town buy eight flood-prone homes have cleared another hurdle.The state Department of Environmental Protection tells The Record that the...
Sep 26 2012 // Washouts of railroad track after heavy rains and revenue lost because of idled trains are likely to cost the Alaska Railroad more than $1 million, a spokeswoman said Monday.“We’re still tallying the...
Sep 26 2012 // A federal appeals court reversed itself this week and threw out a judge’s landmark ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers was liable for billions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina flood damage that property owners...
Sep 25 2012 // Jessica Henderson’s Minot home had just been painstakingly gutted and remodeled, from the basement on up, when the flooding Souris River put its main floor under four feet of water last summer.When it came time to...
Sep 24 2012 // While insured losses in the United States from Hurricane Isaac likely will fall between $1 billion and $2 billion, according to some risk management experts, the storm’s impact will not severely impact the...
Sep 19 2012 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has named Sen. David Vitter, R-La., one of its Federal Legislators of the Year for 2012. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., also won the award.“Senators Tester...
Sep 19 2012 // Flood insurance company Fidelity National Indemnity Insurance Co. is being renamed Wright National Flood Insurance Co.The name change must be approved by the Texas Department of Insurance. Wright National Flood is a member...
Sep 17 2012 // A federal judge has set a trial date in a lawsuit over 2010 flooding at the Kmart in Corinth.The Daily Corinthian reported that the trial is scheduled for Feb. 24 in Aberdeen before U.S. District Glen H. Davidson. In June,...
Sep 14 2012 // While insured losses in the United States from Hurricane Isaac likely will fall between $1 billion and $2 billion, according to some risk management experts, the storm’s impact will not severely impact the...
Sep 14 2012 // Alvin Livers lost his dream home when busted floodwalls unleashed a torrent of water that inundated his New Orleans neighborhood during Hurricane Katrina. Seven years later, Livers is one of several homeowners seeking to...
Sep 14 2012 // U.S. insured losses from Hurricane Issac’s wind and surge impacts on the U.S. Gulf Coast will fall between USD$1−2 billion, excluding rainfall driven flood losses and all National Flood Insurance Program losses,...
Sep 10 2012 // Gertrude Baker and her husband bought their cozy home in Owego in 1956. They raised three kids, befriended neighbors and weathered the occasional flood.But after Tropical Storm Lee bought five feet of water to her first...
Sep 10 2012 // Insurance claims from Hurricane Isaac, which made landfall in far Southeast Louisiana on Aug. 28, could climb to $1.2 billion, according to one catastrophe modeling firm.AIR Worldwide estimated losses at $1.2 billion, but...
Sep 10 2012 // A new flood coverage suite from Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange, or PURE, is offering high-value homeowners an alternative flood insurance option.PURE Flood Solutions works as an extension of the National Flood...
Sep 7 2012 // As hurricane season shifts into high gear, the Maryland Insurance Administration is reminding consumers that September is Disaster Preparedness Month.Maryland regulators are advising homeowners to check what their...
Sep 7 2012 // Some upper Midwest farmers who thought they caught a break when the federal government eased crop insurance rules for land hit by prolonged flooding are finding it isn’t as easy to cash in as they first...
Sep 7 2012 // Aon Benfield’s latest edition of its Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during August, notes that Hurricane Isaac was “the first land falling...
Sep 6 2012 // A new report from Swiss Re underscores the fact the “insured flood losses have increased from $1–2 billion in 1970 to $15 billion in 2011, which it describes as an “alarming rate” while posing...
Sep 5 2012 // Thousands of flood insurance claims are being filed in the wake of Hurricane Isaac, a slow-moving storm that hammered several parishes in southern Louisiana with prolonged, drenching rains and tropical-storm force winds,...
Sep 4 2012 // Mitt Romney wasted no time after accepting the GOP presidential nomination in heading to Louisiana to see the damage from Hurricane Isaac, changing his schedule on the fly to get there the very next day. President Barack...