All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 28 2011 // From floods that crippled countries, to mega cyclones, huge blizzards, killer tornadoes to famine-inducing droughts, 2011 has been another record-breaker for bad weather.While it is too early to predict what 2012 will be...
Dec 28 2011 // Officials in Pascagoula, Mississippi are asking lawmakers to amend a state law and allow local governments to enforce federal floodplain codes at hunting and fishing camps so they can qualify for the National Flood...
Dec 28 2011 // North Dakota residents who have taken turns battling major floods the last three years may be in for a break, based on the first National Weather Service flood outlook of the season.Hydrologist Allen Schlag says the...
Dec 27 2011 // A levee isn’t perfect, but it exists and that should count for something when deciding if a property is at risk for flooding.That’s the position of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a new proposal that...
Dec 27 2011 // The Bermuda-based Everest Re Group announced that it expects to incur net losses of between $100 million and $125 million, after reinstatement premiums and taxes, for claims arising from floods in Thailand. The bulletin...
Dec 26 2011 // The federal flood insurance program has been extended until May 31, 2012 under another short-term consolidated appropriations bill (H.R. 2055) passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by President Obama on Dec....
Dec 21 2011 // Thanks to a dry fall across the northern Plains, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is months ahead of schedule in releasing water from reservoirs on the upper Missouri River to guard against another spring of record-setting...
Dec 20 2011 // There is a new study out that examines the U.S. flood insurance program. And it says that according to its calculations, there are some regions in the country where National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) premiums are too...
Dec 20 2011 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Tropical Storm Washi pummeled the northern part of the Philippine island of Mindanao late Thursday night. Heavy rainfall from Washi (locally called Sendong) lasted for...
Dec 19 2011 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, announced that it has extended its market coverage to include the peril of inland flooding in the UK.The bulletin...
Dec 19 2011 // As a storm that killed more than 530 in the southern Philippines raged outside the store where she works, Amor Limbago worriedly called home to check on her parents, but their cell phones just kept ringing and later went...
Dec 16 2011 // French reinsurer SCOR Group has estimated its losses from the floods in Thailand at €140 million [$185 million] net of retrocession and before tax.SCOR described the floods as a “major natural catastrophe, which...
Dec 16 2011 // Have you ever wondered how modern-day fire departments began? Or why agents buy E&O coverage? What about when the first business owners policy launched? These are just a few questions that Insurance Journal and Claims...
Dec 15 2011 // Flood protection might be the last concern of Texas wildfire survivors these days. Yet Texans — even those who live in areas not rated at high risk of flooding — should consider purchasing a flood insurance policy now,...
Dec 15 2011 // Midwestern farmers who saw their land swamped by summer flooding may be socked again with steep increases in their crop insurance premiums, the expensive result of the failure to fix broken levees before the winter snow...
Dec 14 2011 // Justice Department lawyers argued at trial on Dec. 12 that there is little evidence a shipping channel dug decades ago by the Army Corps of Engineers contributed significantly to the castastrophic flooding after Hurricane...
Dec 12 2011 // Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a new bulletin telling insurers that they should cooperate with state regulators on questions regarding federal flood insurance.There has been an ongoing turf battle...
Dec 9 2011 // This year’s hurricane season was an unusually costly and damaging one for New York State residents. And as the winter sets in, it will take several more months for people in areas ranging from Adirondack Mountains to...
Dec 8 2011 // In this era of sharp political differences, the need for a national flood insurance program is one area where just about everyone agrees. Even so, the program is a victim of Washington partisanship, actuaries were told at...
Dec 8 2011 // A northwest Missouri levee that was dropped from a federal repair program shortly before record flooding caused $4 million in damage has been reinstated to the program, landowners who oversee the levee said.Paul Markt,...