All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 8 2020 // As the devastation from Australia’s bushfires widens, the insurance industry is calling for concerted action to mitigate the impact of climate change.Months of out-of-control fires have burnt an area more than five...
Jan 6 2020 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) FEMA reported its 2020 traditional reinsurance placement for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in a transaction in which 27 private reinsurers assumed $1.33 billion...
Jan 3 2020 // Missouri’s levees need to be strengthened and repaired, especially in rural areas hit hard by prolonged flooding in 2019, according to an advisory group appointed by Gov. Mike Parson.St. Louis Public Radio reported...
Jan 3 2020 // At least 42 people have died from the New Year’s Day flooding in Indonesia, and hundreds of thousands were evacuated, as the greater Jakarta area suffered the most intense rain in 24 years.More than 400,000 people,...
Jan 2 2020 // Indonesian authorities re-opened the Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta for limited operations, as the death toll rises from the city’s worst flooding in almost seven years.At least 16 people have died from the...
Jan 2 2020 // A new year is a time of reflection for some, and last year, the city of Boston began 2019 by reflecting on an important piece of the city’s history: the 100-year anniversary of The Great Molasses Flood.The flood,...
Jan 2 2020 // It was a relatively quiet year for the Southeast in terms of major catastrophes compared with 2018 when Hurricane’s Michael and Florence caused major damage in the region. This year, Hurricane Dorian sideswiped the...
Dec 31 2019 // An emergency declaration was extended in an Alaska borough where residents were forced to evacuate when an ice jam caused a creek to flood, official said.Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly members met with state officials...
Dec 30 2019 // “Every stone is a treasure,” says the technical director of St. Mark’s Basilica’s vestry board, indicating the prized gold-leaf mosaics overhead, the inlaid stone pavement and the marble clad walls...
Dec 27 2019 // The fourth and final insured property loss estimate for the hailstorms that hit the greater Sydney region in December 2018 rose to A$798 million ($553.2 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based...
Dec 23 2019 // Venice’s hoteliers association estimates that the city’s hotels suffered about 30 million euros ($34 million) worth of structural damage during November’s floods.The overall losses, though, are higher...
Dec 20 2019 // The Senate yesterday went along with House measures that fund the military and rest of the federal government through next September.The government funding measure includes two provisions of particular interest to the...
Dec 19 2019 // Florida-based insurtech, Neptune Flood Incorporated has hired Jean-Luc Eckstein has been hired as executive director.Eckstein joins Neptune Flood from Fortune 500 technology provider, CDW, where he sold software and...
Dec 17 2019 // Hundreds of Houston homeowners near U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-managed reservoirs may receive compensation for flooding of their properties during 2017’s Hurricane Harvey, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.The U.S....
Dec 17 2019 // Georgia’s governor has issued an emergency declaration because of capacity issues at Atlanta-area hospitals after a flooding incident at the state’s largest trauma center last week.Grady Memorial Hospital in...
Dec 17 2019 // Congress is planning to use a $1.4 trillion package of two must-pass spending bills to repeal Obamacare taxes, raise the age for tobacco purchases to 21 and extend the U.S. Export-Import Bank for seven years, according to...
Dec 16 2019 // Tropical Storm Imelda landed on the Texas Gulf Coast on September 17, 2019. Over the three-day duration of the storm, 43 inches of rain saturated some locations, with nearly 30 inches falling over a 12-hour period. Some...
Dec 13 2019 // If it weren’t for Hurricane Katrina, Chris Greene might not have become an expert in all things flood related.Greene, a Georgia-based independent flood insurance agent, and founder and owner of The Flood Insurance...
Dec 12 2019 // Historic cities and towns along the Southeastern U.S. coast have survived wars, hurricanes, disease outbreaks and other calamities, but now that sea levels are creeping up with no sign of stopping, they face a more...
Dec 11 2019 // Flooding and inland storms led to multi-billion-dollar economic loss in western and southern Europe during November, according to insurance broker Aon’s latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap...