All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 9 2006 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department was the first in the nation when it was created in 1851 with a mission to administer the state’s insurance laws. Roger Sevigny, current commissioner, was recently elected an...
Oct 9 2006 // Flood policy purchases rising nationwide and in Eastern statesThe purchase of flood insurance in New Hampshire has risen by 26.2 percent since May of last year – a jump attributed to last October’s flooding and...
Oct 9 2006 // * Number of Insurance ** WrittenState Policies In-Force In-Force ($) Premium In-Force Alabama 47,166 7,650,924,800 22,330,614Connecticut 32,179 6,280,217,200 25,116,027Delaware 20,491 3,958,905,900 10,529,933District...
Oct 5 2006 // Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and New Jersey have agreed to share the costs of a $500,000 study to examine the effects of operational changes at major reservoirs throughout the entire Delaware River basin.The state will...
Oct 4 2006 // EQECAT, Inc. has released its upgraded German Flood model, part of its EuroFlood™ platform, which it said would enable “the European and international insurance industry to manage more effectively exposures from...
Sep 27 2006 // New York City has agreed to periodically lower the water level in three of its upstate reservoirs in an attempt to ease flooding along the Delaware River, according to environmental officials.By leaving the reservoirs...
Sep 25 2006 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has adopted a model bulletin regarding training requirements for insurance producers who offer policies through the National Flood Insurance Program. This effort relates...
Sep 22 2006 // It took only four hours for a Louisiana grand jury to charge the owners of St. Rita’s Nursing home – where 35 people died in post-Hurricane Katrina flooding – on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty...
Sep 22 2006 // As we approach the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Rita’s visit to Texas, residents along the Gulf Coast of Texas can and have learned a lot about the devastating effects of a hurricane, an insurance industry...
Sep 14 2006 // The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, Consumer Relations Division, is assisting New Mexicans who have experienced rain or flood damage with information on insurance coverage, and filing flood, property and...
Sep 13 2006 // The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, heard testimony today from industry advocates to discuss the need for public and private sectors to work...
Sep 13 2006 // All 34 pump motors that Army Corps of Engineers contractors installed in New Orleans’ 17th Street, Orleans Avenue and London Avenue canals have been rebuilt, but retesting over the weekend showed that many of them...
Sep 12 2006 // Risk Management Solutions, a Newark, Calif.-based provider of products and services for the management of natural hazard risk, released its probabilistic Germany River Flood model to assess both off and on-flood plain...
Sep 12 2006 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has adopted a model bulletin regarding training requirements for insurance producers who offer policies through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).This...
Sep 7 2006 // New York City’s thirst for drinking water is clashing with Anthony Harlacher’s desire not to be flooded.Harlacher, who has endured three major floods in two years, is spending tens of thousands of dollars to...
Sep 5 2006 // A Rockingham County, N.H. relief agency estimates it will cost $3.8 million to help 76 families who haven’t been able to return to their homes since May’s flooding, but it could take months before the state can...
Sep 4 2006 // News CurrentsOne year later: Gulf Coast agents & Katrina recovery How 3 Mississippi Gulf Coast agents, their families and communities are progressingLast October, Insurance Journal spent two days in Mississippi...
Sep 4 2006 // Hurricanes Katrina and Rita exposed many misconceptions and misunderstandings that consumers had, or claimed to have had, with respect to their insurance coverage for hurricane related damage. The aftermath of these two...
Sep 4 2006 // On Aug. 15, 2006, a decision was handed down in the first post-Katrina insurance lawsuit to go to trial. Because there are thousands of lawsuits raising the same claims with millions, if not billions, of dollars at stake,...
Sep 4 2006 // Insurance agents and insurers in Pennsylvania were breathing a sigh of relief following a court ruling that says agents do not have a duty to inspect all properties before binding or renewing flood insurance coverage.Had...