All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 14 2005 // The Association of British Insurers has issued a call to the country’s voters to “make flood management an election issue,” as it publishes its “flood manifesto.”The ABI is targeting 100...
Apr 13 2005 // A reassessment of damages caused in three flood-damaged Mississippi counties has been requested by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, which has requested additional preliminary damage assessment teams from the...
Apr 11 2005 // The grim task of damage assessment continued last week as officials in nine Pennsylvania counties took note of houses, businesses, roads and bridges stricken by flooding from rains last weekend.Thousands of structures up...
Apr 8 2005 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has formed a working group to examine issues with the National Flood Insurance Program in light of Hurricane Isabel complaints and experiences with other recent storms by...
Apr 7 2005 // Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell has sent a letter to President George W. Bush regarding last weekend’s flooding along the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers. Because many of the flood-impacted areas suffered extensive,...
Apr 6 2005 // Cindy Fillman, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department’s consumer liaison, is inviting consumers to regional consumer advisory meetings to talk, ask questions and bring items of interest to the direct attention of the...
Apr 6 2005 // After Hurricane Ivan filled their little ranch house in Easton, Pa. with several feet of water, Dale and Charlotte Barr spent $40,000 to get it back in shape, doing most of the work themselves. They were just about to...
Apr 4 2005 // As Los Angeles inches toward its highest annual rainfall total on record, the property damage left in the wake of the storms is devastating. All across the Southland, homes have toppled down hillsides as if they were toys....
Mar 31 2005 // A report, prepared by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), entitled “The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment,” concludes that many of the planet’s essential systems are endangered, primarily due to...
Mar 28 2005 // The recent announcement by the U.K. Government revealing a new strategy for flood management provides “a welcome step towards ensuring that the increasing flood risk is effectively managed,” said the...
Mar 21 2005 // Transparency will reportedly bring fundamental changes in how the industry operates, resulting in more open communication between the client, the broker and the underwriter.A change in the dynamics of the business also...
Mar 11 2005 // Two Aon subsidiaries, Aon Re Global and Impact Forecasting, LLC, have released a report on 2004’s natural catastrophes, describing “a year of freakish weather patterns, ending with the worst natural disaster in...
Mar 7 2005 // News from Worldcom, Enron and Spitzer Invades PLUS SymposiumSettlements that reach beyond insurance and into the pockets of firms’ former directors draw attention to the limits of insurance, professional liability...
Mar 7 2005 // News from Worldcom, Enron and Spitzer Invades PLUS SymposiumSettlements that reach beyond insurance and into the pockets of firms’ former directors draw attention to the limits of insurance, according to professional...
Mar 7 2005 // Insurers must not be lulled into thinking that the Directors and Officers liability market has recovered because the quantity of cases remain high and the complexities of litigation are overwhelming.As a result, carriers...
Mar 7 2005 // News from Worldcom, Enron and Spitzer invades PLUS SymposiumSettlements that reach beyond insurance and into the pockets of firms’ former directors draw attention to the limits of insurance, according to professional...
Mar 4 2005 // States will soon require minimum training, education and knowledge requirements for insurance agents who write flood insurance, Ed Pasterick, an industry relations spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency told...
Mar 1 2005 // A Pennsylvania congresswoman wants more oversight of the federal flood insurance program, saying local victims were shortchanged last year.Rep. Melissa Hart, R-Pa., has joined representatives from Maryland, Virginia,...
Feb 21 2005 // Citizens Property Insurance Co. is in the limelight again, this time because it is refusing to pay property losses, even after losing a South Florida appeals court decision.Hurricane Irene brought both wind and water when...
Feb 8 2005 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced it has obligated $1.35 million to the state of Texas to fund flood protection measures in Jefferson County. The project...