All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 5 2005 // At press time, forecasters were predicting insured losses from Hurricane Katrina-which made landfall 45 miles west of Biloxi, Miss., and 35 miles east of New Orleans on Aug. 29-would be in the $10 billion to $30 billion...
Sep 5 2005 // Extreme Weather Hits Europe: Devastating wild fires in Portugal; torrential rains in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Romania; drought in much of France. There seems to be no end to the list of extreme weather conditions...
Sep 5 2005 // Despite three major Delaware River floods in the past 13 months, the Department of Environmental Protection is reneging on promises to revise rules that would make it tougher for developers to build in flood-prone areas,...
Sep 5 2005 // Extreme Weather Hits Europe: Devastating wild fires in Portugal; torrential rains in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Romania; drought in much of France. There seems to be no end to the list of extreme weather conditions...
Sep 3 2005 // In what has and will in the weeks to come be only described as a grisly job, search and rescue teams announced Sunday that 59 deaths in Louisiana have been confirmed as a result of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Bayou...
Sep 2 2005 // Swiss reinsurer Converium has issued the following statement concerning expected losses from Hurricane Katrina and from the floods that ravaged Switzerland, Austria and other European countries in August. “Based on...
Sep 2 2005 // Risk Management Solutions announced that the economic loss from Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding in New Orleans is expected to exceed $100 billion.Losses are resulting from two separate catastrophic events: first,...
Sep 1 2005 // In response to Hurricane Katrina, A.M. Best Co. has begun to aggregate public and private information in order to assess the financial impact it will have on the global property/casualty insurance and reinsurance...
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...