All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 30 2005 // With the possibility that severe weather associated with Hurricane Katrina will cause heavy rains and potential flooding, Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin is urging Ohioans to plan for emergency...
Aug 29 2005 // Policyholders with questions regarding their coverage for damage caused by Hurricane Katrina should contact their insurance agent or company representative. To assist consumers, special toll-free numbers have been set up...
Aug 29 2005 // The National Hurricane Center has downgraded Katrina to a tropical storm in the last few hours and issued warnings from Lake Ponchartrain and the mouth of the Pearl River, eastward to the Alabama/Florida border.All other...
Aug 26 2005 // Attorney General Charlie Crist has advised Floridians affected by Hurricane Katrina to use extra caution when hiring workers to help clean up the damage caused by the storm. In particular, the Attorney General warned those...
Aug 24 2005 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents has announced it will study “another avenue” for covering hurricane wind damage in Florida and would like to establish its own “vehicle” to insure...
Aug 23 2005 // North Carolina farmers who suffered flooding losses from last year’s hurricanes will soon receive disaster-assistance grants from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The checks issued...
Aug 19 2005 // Flooding from Hurricane Ivan’s rain and storm surges prompted more than a billion dollars in claims, making it the costliest hurricane of 2004, U.S. officials said.Ivan’s damage also made it the third most...
Aug 9 2005 // Zurich, one of the nation’s largest property/casualty insurance companies, announced that Daniel Flood has joined its North American operations as crime product manager. In this role, Flood will have oversight for...
Aug 7 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matthew Denn wants to restrict insurers from canceling homeowners’ insurance policies because they have made a few claims and require insurers to more fully disclose to insureds...
Jul 22 2005 // During this already active hurricane season, officials at the Texas Department of Insurance are reminding all Gulf Coast home and business owners that is important to periodically review your insurance policies to ensure...
Jul 18 2005 // To paraphrase an old adage: “Nothing concentrates the overall mind of the property/casualty insurance community as much as the approaching certainty of large loss events.” So, it’s no wonder that many...
Jul 15 2005 // Residents along the Gulf Coast of Texas can learn a lot from the experiences of those people in Florida who were victims of multiple hurricanes last year, according Sandra Ray, public affairs director of Southwestern...
Jul 13 2005 // The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure to exclude from consideration as income certain payments under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).Introduced by Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government...
Jul 12 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) praised the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity for holding a hearing on the future of the National Flood Insurance...
Jul 5 2005 // The U.K.’s Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) notes that “legislation to implement the EC Water Framework Directive could seriously limit our ability to implement flood management schemes in future.”The...
Jun 30 2005 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has released a ground-breaking report, “Financial Risks of Climate Change,” which shows that the worldwide costs of major storms is likely to increase by as much as...
Jun 22 2005 // Flash floods that hit the North Yorkshire region of Britain on Sunday night have left a heavy toll in their wake. While no loss of life has been reported, many houses have been destroyed, a number of roads and bridges were...
Jun 20 2005 // More than 140 claimants are suing federal flood insurance officials and the program’s insurance industry partners claiming they conspired to low-ball their claims payments after their properties were hit by Tropical...
Jun 20 2005 // Circuit Court Judge Kevin Davey ruled in a class-action lawsuit in Tallahassee, Fla., that Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s insurer of last resort, must pay the full amount of damage homes were insured...
Jun 20 2005 // The American Insurance Association strongly disagrees with the Florida Circuit Court ruling confirming the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2004 decision in Mierzwa v. Florida Windstorm Underwriting Association,...