All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 20 2020 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on May 19 declared a state of emergency in Midland County after the Edenville and Sanford Dams on the Tittabawassee River breached following several days of heavy that produced flooding and...
May 18 2020 // Tropical Storm Arthur inched closer to the U.S. East Coast on Sunday, although its impact was expected to be limited to some minor flooding and rough seas along the North Carolina coast.Arthur formed off the coast of...
May 18 2020 // Business interruption insurance has been a much-debated topic during the coronavirus crisis, with some businesses already pushing back against virus-related claim denials.In several cities, groups of businesses have filed...
May 12 2020 // Guy Carpenter & Co., the reinsurance broker and subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Cos., announced the launch of a new Philippines Flood Model. The probabilistic model provides countrywide coverage and enables insurers...
May 8 2020 // Extensive severe weather events in the United States during April cost insurers billions of dollars, according to the latest edition of Aon’s Global Catastrophe Recap report.There were 14 killer tornadoes in the U.S....
May 6 2020 // The Willis Research Network (WRN) has formed a new partnership with “Cloud to Street,” a global flood-mapping and monitoring platform that aims to help governments, humanitarian organizations and private sector...
May 6 2020 // Business interruption insurance has been a much-debated topic during the coronavirus crisis, with some businesses already pushing back against virus-related claim denials.In several cities, groups of businesses have filed...
May 5 2020 // RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based risk modeling and analytics firm, announced the release of new European Severe Convective Storm (EU SCS) High Definition Models.The models represent 50,000 years of simulation of hail and...
May 5 2020 // Neptune Flood, an online flood insurance company, has entered into strategic underwriting partnerships that double its capacity at Lloyd’s.Neptune, a Lloyd’s Coverholder since 2017, is now working with three...
Apr 30 2020 // Villages in an Alaska region are preparing for possible evacuations because of an increased possibility of spring flooding.The state’s emergency operations center is monitoring melting ice on rural rivers in the...
Apr 28 2020 // Floods have forced mandatory evacuations in parts of Fort McMurray, the hub for Canada’s oil sands industry, even as the province of Alberta tries to stem the spread of the coronavirus.The Regional Municipality of...
Apr 24 2020 // Severe weather moved through the South on April 23 after killing at least seven people in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a worker at a factory hit by an apparent tornado, a man whose car was blown off the road...
Apr 16 2020 // “Sea-level rise will radically redefine the coastline of the 21st century.”That’s from a new study that shows rising sea levels could lead to extreme flooding events in some U.S. coastal areas doubling...
Apr 8 2020 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says Oregon will receive federal help for flooding and storms that happened in February in the northeastern section of the state.Federal disaster assistance will supplement state,...
Apr 8 2020 // Global warming will lead to growing intensity and frequency of severe weather events, rising losses, as well as greater uncertainty in the assessment of these events by the insurance industry, which could make some weather...
Apr 2 2020 // Initial insured losses for the floods that hit the UK in February are estimated at £297 million (US$367.8 milion), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe...
Apr 2 2020 // With flood concerns already high in the Midwest, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is warning that many levees on the Missouri and Kansas rivers that were damaged during devastating floods last spring remain vulnerable to...
Mar 30 2020 // Mississippi businesses and residents who were hurt by Pearl River flooding in February are now eligible to receive disaster assistance. Gov. Tate Reeves, in a news release Thursday, said the U.S. Small Business...
Mar 30 2020 // A severe weather system tore through the Midwest over the weekend, bringing damaging high winds, tornadoes and flooding.Authorities say severe weather in Ohio spawned what forecasters are calling a “100-year...
Mar 30 2020 // The initial insured property loss estimate for Europe’s extratropical cyclone “Victoria,” also known as “Dennis,” is an estimated €286 million (US$318.4 million), according to PERILS, the...