All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2011 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp., has released the latest edition of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during...
Feb 3 2011 // Fourteen years after being hit by flooding, Reno, Nev., elected officials appear split on a plan to create a multi-jurisdictional flood control management authority.The Reno Gazette-Journal reported that while Washoe...
Feb 1 2011 // Just as TC Anthony dissipated over Queensland the flood ravaged State received a warning that another tropical cyclone is heading its way. According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Cyclone Yasi was “about...
Feb 1 2011 // Tropical Cyclone Anthony made landfall over the coast of the Australian State of Queensland on Sunday, close to the town of Bowen, and approximately 275 miles (440 kms) southeast of Cairns.An analysis of the storm from...
Jan 28 2011 // The Chubb Corp. reported that net income in the fourth quarter of 2010 was $620 million, compared to $695 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. For the year ended Dec. 31, 2010, net income was $2.2 billion, the same as in...
Jan 28 2011 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has reacted quickly to the disastrous flooding in the State of Queensland earlier this month with two new initiatives aimed at “developing a more effective and sustainable...
Jan 27 2011 // Australia’s minority Labor government imposed a reconstruction tax and cut environmental spending on Thursday to help fund the recovery from this month’s devastating floods, and immediately ran into opposition...
Jan 26 2011 // Fargo officials told residents this week that they need to start preparing soon for what’s expected to be a third straight year of major spring flooding along the Red River.‘I don’t think anybody is ready...
Jan 25 2011 // A federal judge has ruled that a barge that landed on top of several homes in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans did not cause the floodwall to break during Hurricane Katrina.U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. of New...
Jan 25 2011 // The Des Moines River in Iowa is rising higher and more often, which means floods like those that swamped the city in 1993 and 2008 are more likely to occur again than experts had previously estimated, according to a study...
Jan 24 2011 // River forecasters for the National Weather Service underestimated the flood level that a major river would reach during Nashville’s fatal May floods because they relied on inaccurate data from the U.S. Army Corps of...
Jan 24 2011 // A vast lake created by floodwaters will spread across southeastern Australia and threaten rural towns in its path for up to 10 more days, an official said Saturday as the nation’s flood crisis continued to create...
Jan 21 2011 // A surging river Thursday flooded and isolated the latest community hit in Australia’s deadly flood disaster, straining a levee serving as the main protection between the muddy waters and residents’ homes.The...
Jan 20 2011 // The likelihood of significant Red River flooding has risen in North Dakota and Minnesota, the National Weather Service said in its latest outlook for the river that has overflowed the past two springs and sent officials...
Jan 20 2011 // At least 207 people are still missing after Brazil’s worst landslides in decades, authorities said Wednesday, as the death toll from the disaster in a scenic mountain region reached 741.The list of missing people...
Jan 19 2011 // Insured losses from the recent flooding in Australia could top $6 billion, and earnings estimates for Bermudan reinsurers are at risk as a result, Barclays Capital said Tuesday.Barclays analyst Jay Gelb cited early...
Jan 18 2011 // Floods that ravaged Australia’s northeast and swamped a major city could be the country’s most expensive natural disaster ever, the government said Monday.Flooding inundated new areas in the south Monday, where...
Jan 18 2011 // Two counties in the northeastern part of Mississippi are fighting flood zone designations on new maps that are part of a modernization program spearheaded by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.Officials in...
Jan 14 2011 // California could be subject to a powerful series of storms, capable of costing $300 billion in damages — three times as much as a severe earthquake in the southern part of the state, according to a new report by the...
Jan 14 2011 // River forecasters for the National Weather Service underestimated the flood level that a major river would reach during Nashville’s fatal May floods because they relied on inaccurate data from the U.S. Army Corps of...