All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2005 // Tropical Storm Arlene sailed through the Gulf of Mexico, missing Texas and Louisiana, and causing minimal damage when it came ashore on June 12 in Gulf Shores, Ala. It dropped more than 5 inches of rain and had weakened to...
Jun 14 2005 // Tampa, Fla.-based Southern Family Insurance Company, a member of Poe Financial Group, was recognized by the National Flood Insurance Program during its recent annual conference in Marco Island, Fla. Southern Family...
Jun 9 2005 // Tropical Storm Arlene, the first named tropical storm of the 2005 hurricane season, is developing in the northwest Caribbean. Tropical storms have top sustained winds of 39 mph to 74 mph.NOAA forecasters predict the storm...
Jun 9 2005 // More than 140 victims of the 2003 tropical storm Isabel are suing Homeland Security Undersecretary Michael Brown, David Maurstad, who runs the National Flood Insurance Program, 17 insurance companies and others charging...
Jun 6 2005 // Got an extra $125,000 lying around? Spending that much would get rid of boring, uncomfortable stays in shelters when the next monster hurricane hits.A pricey safe room by Acoustic Innovations Inc. is among the products...
Jun 6 2005 // An insurance agency that allegedly failed to tell a beverage company that its warehouse sat in a 100-year flood plain is being sued by the beverage company, which later suffered an $8.4 million in flood...
Jun 6 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSWorkers Comp Rates Up 3%: Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has approved a 3.0 percent overall average rate reduction in workers’ compensation rates, a savings of $32.6 million in...
Jun 6 2005 // Got an extra $125,000 lying around? Spending that much would get rid of boring, uncomfortable stays in shelters when the next monster hurricane hits.A pricey safe room by Acoustic Innovations Inc. is among the products...
Jun 1 2005 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley issued a reminder to citizens of his state that hurricane season is here and any unfinished hurricane preparation needs to happen now. The Atlanta Storm Season runs from...
May 31 2005 // Early-morning thunderstorms crashed across northwest Florida on Tuesday morning, almost as if to announce the arrival on Wednesday morning of the 2005 hurricane season.At the same time, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and other...
May 31 2005 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills has urged the state legislature to extend the deadline to give Broome County homeowners whose properties were damaged in last month’s floods more time to file for...
May 31 2005 // May 30 through June 3 has been dedicated as Hurricane Awareness Week in Mississippi by the Mississippi Emergency Management Association.High wind speeds, tidal surge and tornadoes associated with hurricanes always grab...
May 27 2005 // The federal government is giving $2.7 million to help the University of Hawaii recover from October’s flooding in Manoa Valley.The money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will cover the deductible portion...
May 27 2005 // The American Insurance Association strongly disagrees with yesterday’s Florida Circuit Court ruling confirming the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2004 decision in Mierzwa v. Florida Windstorm Underwriting...
May 26 2005 // Circuit Court Judge Kevin Davey has 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...
May 24 2005 // With the start of hurricane season, June 1, just days away, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is advising policyholders to make preparations now, before a possible storm. The state’s insurer of last resort is...
May 23 2005 // Just in time for the Memorial Day weekend, public and private sector partners, including the Allstate Foundation and Southwestern Insurance Information Service, are joining forces to expand flood safety awareness in Texas...
May 23 2005 // The Pacific Northwest is coming out of one of its driest winters on record, and emergency responders are bracing for an early and possibly severe wildfire season. But even in the midst of a drought, spring rains and...
May 23 2005 // An insurance agency failed to tell a beverage company its warehouse sat in a 100-year flood plain, causing the company to suffer $8.4 million in flood damage, a lawsuit claims.Latrobe-based LeNature’s Inc. recently...
May 23 2005 // Florida Gov. Jeb Bush pledged during the May 11 opening of the annual Governor’s Hurricane Conference at the Tampa Convention Center to sign and approve Senate Bill 1486, controversial legislation that consumer...