All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Jun 29 2006 // The federal flood insurance program, still reeling from historic losses from Hurricane Katrina, may get a helping hand from Congress.The House voted 416-4 Tuesday to phase out subsidies on some vacation homes and...
Jun 29 2006 // Heavy rains caused flooding throughout eastern and central Pennsylvania, prompting evacuations and resulting in at least one death, as officials braced for the possibility of major inundations along cresting...
Jun 29 2006 // The deluge of rain that caused flooding in the nation’s capital and elsewhere in the East forced the evacuation of more than 2,200 people near a rising lake on Wednesday and washed out part of a four-lane highway. At...
Jun 28 2006 // In Washington, D.C., a city that always seems to be in a hurry, this week’s soggy weather forced almost everyone to slow down.Water and mudslides blocked highways. Commuter rail lines sputtered. Some federal office...
Jun 28 2006 // Fidelity National Property and Casualty Insurance Co. has received approval from the Circuit Court of Florida to purchase all of the existing flood insurance policies of Southern Family Insurance Co. through the Florida...
Jun 28 2006 // Florida’s Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has testified to a congressional committee in Washington, D.C. on the need for a national plan to respond to catastrophic events, and posed the question: “Is...
Jun 26 2006 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has adopted a statement on natural disasters that asserts a flexible regulatory environment in which insurers are free to price coverage based on risk will...
Jun 20 2006 // In response to June 19 flood conditions in the Houston area, Texas Governor Rick Perry deployed national guard crews and other state resources to support local officials. State assets that were activated include:–50...
Jun 19 2006 // N.J. pays premiumFlood insurance is a particularly salient issue for my home state of New Jersey. Surrounded by the Delaware River to the west and the Hudson River and Atlantic Ocean to the east, New Jersey is especially...
Jun 19 2006 // The prospect of another nasty hurricane season has everyone in the insurance industry braced for a white-knuckle ride. The spectre of a hurricane hitting a major Northeast population center is hardly the stuff of Hollywood...
Jun 19 2006 // According to Fitch, increases are running between 25 percent and 400 percent for windstorm and flood insurance premiums since the June 1 start of this year’s hurricane season.Six hurricanes in 2005 caused $57.3...
Jun 19 2006 // If there’s anything to be learned from last year’s hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, it’s that the value of relationships before, during and after a claim is immeasurable, according to Mel Bangs,...
Jun 19 2006 // The Pacific coast states of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, face the greatest tsunami hazard, but West Coast states could see the...
Jun 15 2006 // Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Waterbury Mayor Michael J. Jarjura said that preliminary damage estimates of the June 2-3 flash flooding in the city totaled $4.4 million. Other towns in Greater Waterbury have estimated...
Jun 13 2006 // The owners of the sagging, flood-stained home in New Orleans aren’t in. Above the front door, a banner explains their absence, and the lack of progress: “Allstate paid $10,113.34 on this house for storm...
Jun 12 2006 // Windstorm insurance companies would have to cover water damage caused by hurricanes under a proposal Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis released June 9, part of a multi-pronged proposal to solve the problems...
Jun 12 2006 // There were big gains this year in the number of Rhode Island homeowners with flood insurance, but the state still has one of the lowest rates in the country of participation in a federal flood insurance program, according...
Jun 12 2006 // U.S. commercial real estate (CRE) values in coastal areas, and in particular smaller multifamily properties, may suffer as insurance companies reduce loss exposure to hurricane-prone areas by increasing premiums, raising...