All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 27 2011 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has issued a bulletin advising “anyone who has suffered flood damage as a result of the heavy rain that has so far hit Northern Ireland, Wales and south-west England to...
Oct 27 2011 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has issued a bulletin on the “torrential rainfall” that has “caused widespread disruption and damage on both sides of the Irish Sea.” The Dublin area has been...
Oct 25 2011 // As frustration has built in flood-ravaged upstate New York towns nearly two months after back-to-back tropical storms, Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy is visiting the sites to assess progress.Despite state and federal...
Oct 25 2011 // Japan has offered extra loans, insurance and a baht cash line to help Japanese companies in flood-ravaged Thailand, signaling growing concerns over the disaster’s impact on the world’s third biggest...
Oct 21 2011 // Thailand battled to protect the capital Bangkok from being swamped by water on Friday, with canals full to the brim after devastating floods across the region that sources in neighbouring Myanmar said had killed at least...
Oct 19 2011 // Two senators are pressing to remove a federal requirement that homeowners and businesses near levees and dams purchase flood insurance.Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) have launched an effort to...
Oct 19 2011 // Floods are the most commonly occurring natural catastrophes in the world and insurance companies are using science to better predict risks, yet most people underestimate flooding’s destructive power, German insurer...
Oct 18 2011 // In a year when severe drought scorched the Southwest, a hurricane drowned crops in the East, and river flooding swamped farms in the Midwest, one of the worst places to be a farmer may be just west of the Mississippi...
Oct 17 2011 // A number of Bermuda-based re/insurers have announced their respective loss estimates for the third quarter of 2011. The figures given include loss adjustment expenses, and are net of any applicable reinsurance recoveries,...
Oct 17 2011 // The government expressed confidence Sunday that Bangkok will escape Thailand’s worst flooding in decades, as the capital’s elaborate barriers held strong and floodwaters receded from submerged plains to the...
Oct 17 2011 // The U.S. House of Representatives in early October passed legislation that keeps the federal flood insurance program running until Nov. 18, 2011.The House voted 352-66 to extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP);...
Oct 17 2011 // No matter what we mere humans do, nature does whatever she wants, whenever she wants. All we can do is pick up the pieces and rebuild from the devastation that she brings. The latest destructive forces in the United...
Oct 14 2011 // A lawsuit filed by residents in southeastern Kentucky blames a mining company’s surface mining practices for stoking a flood that killed a man and damaged homes in Knox County this summer.The suit against Nally &...
Oct 14 2011 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, estimates that insured losses caused by Hurricane Jova from flood-induced damage, as well as from some isolated wind damage along Mexico’s southern coastal areas, will be...
Oct 13 2011 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide’s Dr. Tim Doggett, even though hurricane Jova has weakened to a tropical depression, it’s still capable of causing further damage. “Jova’s slow...
Oct 13 2011 // Hurricane Jova flooded the streets of Mexico’s main Pacific port with torrential rain Wednesday, inundating popular beach resorts and killing at least four people in mudslides.While Jova ravaged the coast, a tropical...
Oct 12 2011 // Honda Motor Co said its Thai plant remains underwater as flooding in the center of the country worsens, closing down 4.7 percent of its global output in a disaster that is hammering other Japanese firms that have made the...
Oct 11 2011 // Hurricane Jova bore down on the Pacific coast of Mexico Tuesday threatening to pound one of the country’s busiest cargo ports and tourist resorts with destructive waves, heavy rainfall and flooding.The Category 3...
Oct 11 2011 // Thailand raced on Tuesday to build floodwalls on the outskirts of Bangkok to prevent the worst floods in half a century from inundating parts of the capital later this week when water flowing from the north reaches the...
Oct 7 2011 // Eighteen north Vicksburg homeowners who suffered damage from the Mississippi River flooding this spring have signed up for the city’s buyout program.The Vicksburg Post reported the voluntary buyout will be conducted...