All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 3 2010 // Aon Benfield’s latest release of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which provides an analysis of global natural perils in August, reports the month was “dominated by historic floods in Pakistan destroying over 1.25...
Sep 2 2010 // With Hurricane Earl on a path to skim the barrier islands and the coast of North Carolina beginning this evening, state Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is reminding all North Carolinians to take precautions before the...
Sep 2 2010 // City officials are trying to salvage some of the homes damaged by flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2008 by offering them to builders and nonprofit groups for free.In exchange, the homes would be renovated and sold at a...
Aug 26 2010 // Controlling urban growth and increasing forested land are the most effective ways to decrease future water runoff and flooding, according to a Purdue University study.Bryan Pijanowski, an associate professor of forestry...
Aug 23 2010 // Federal officials have received nearly 10,000 applications for disaster assistance from seven Illinois counties hit by flooding last month.The Federal Emergency Management Agency is urging residents and business owners to...
Aug 20 2010 // Gov. Phil Bredesen says Tennessee will receive a higher percentage of federal matching funds to cover costs due to severe flooding in early May. Bredesen recently announced that the state’s federal match will be 90...
Aug 20 2010 // A group of eastern Kentucky residents have sued two coal companies, saying improper surface mining and reclamation caused or worsened flooding that destroyed dozens of homes in Pike County last month.The Lexington...
Aug 17 2010 // Extreme weather in 2010 will spur more strident calls for action to combat global warming but is unlikely to break a deadlock at U.N. climate talks about sharing the burden between rich and poor.Islamabad, for instance,...
Aug 16 2010 // Landowners are voting on a proposed $2.7 million flood control project to divert pooling sheet water away from the northeast North Dakota city of Michigan. Officials say the Michigan Spillway project also would relieve...
Aug 16 2010 // Officials in Des Moines are looking for money to buy more properties in a flood-prone area of the city.City Manager Rick Clark says that flooding in the Four Mile Creek area is “uncontrolled” — and that...
Aug 16 2010 // U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to provide more aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Sunday as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate and new torrents inundated villages.Survivors...
Aug 16 2010 // The federal government is affirming it will pay 90 percent of the disaster recovery costs from tornadoes and floods that hit Mississippi in late April and early May. U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran announced the federal share...
Aug 16 2010 // Alabama will get some $1 million in federal cash for the city of Albertville’s recovery from April’s tornado and storms.U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of...
Aug 16 2010 // GEICO, State Farm, Progressive, e-surance and other major insurance marketers currently employ humor in their advertising. There’s GEICO’s prolonged use of the gecko, State Farm’s whyagent.com Web site,...
Aug 16 2010 // Insurance Journal is pleased to publish the 2010 Education and Training Directory. This exclusive resource directory has been designed to help independent agents and brokers find educational and training opportunities to...
Aug 16 2010 // GEICO, State Farm, Progressive, e-surance and other major insurance marketers currently employ humor in their advertising. There’s GEICO’s prolonged use of the gecko, State Farm’s whyagent.com Web site,...
Aug 13 2010 // Asia’s heavy monsoons, a record heatwave in Russia and severe droughts in Africa show the need for new yardsticks to rate extreme weather to guide everybody from road builders to insurance companies, a U.N. expert...
Aug 11 2010 // The federal government’s flood insurance program that had mostly been concerned with protecting homes and businesses must now protect salmon and killer whales.Federal fisheries experts have told the Federal Emergency...
Aug 10 2010 // Devastating floods in Pakistan and Russia’s heatwave match predictions of extremes caused by global warming even though it is impossible to blame mankind for single severe weather events, scientists say.This year is...
Aug 9 2010 // Farmington, N.M., city councilors have passed an ordinance that will keep residents eligible for flood insurance coverage backed by the federal government. The vote came less than a week after the northwestern New Mexico...