All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 13 2019 // Climate change presents “high exposure risk” to insurers and their policyholders on many fronts:General liability claims for third-party bodily injury and property damage, directors and officers claims for a...
Jun 13 2019 // A key House committee has passed legislation to renew the National Flood Insurance Program for five years and institute various reforms.The House Financial Services Committee, by a bipartisan vote of 59 to 0, approved the...
Jun 13 2019 // The Federal Association for Insurance Reform (FAIR), formerly the Florida Association for Insurance Reform, is expanding nationwide with a focus on reducing uninsured flood risk across the United States.FAIR is a...
Jun 12 2019 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) released an online quiz, “What the Flood!,” as part of its #YourRiskIsReal campaign, an ongoing effort to educate consumers about flood risks and the...
Jun 11 2019 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking into ways to allow farmers who have been unable to plant crops due to rains and waterlogged fields to qualify for farm aid payments, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on...
Jun 11 2019 // A chunk of North Carolina’s mountains and foothills are facing flash flooding that’s being blamed for three deaths.The National Weather Service said Sunday that six inches or more of rain had fallen in parts of...
Jun 10 2019 // About 600 Tulsa County homes and business were inundated during last week’s historic flooding along the swollen Arkansas River, city officials said.Joe Kralicek, executive director of the Tulsa Area Emergency...
Jun 10 2019 // Arkansas’ governor has asked President Donald Trump to declare a major disaster for eight counties that have been hit by historic flooding along the Arkansas River. Gov. Asa Hutchinson asked Trump in a letter dated...
Jun 10 2019 // As the waters of the swollen Arkansas River rose in Little Rock, and threatened to reach record heights, Samuel Ellis had to make the tough, but prudent, decision to indefinitely shutter kayak rentals from his tour...
Jun 10 2019 // A floodgate in Mississippi has again closed to prevent the swollen Mississippi River from spilling inland and worsening flooding in parts of the Mississippi Delta.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it closed the Steele...
Jun 10 2019 // The U.S. dealt with close to 4,400 reports of tornadoes, hail and straight-line winds in May, the most since 2011, according to weather data cited by Aon’s monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report.According to the...
Jun 7 2019 // Authorities in Louisiana are investigating reports of a possible tornado damage in the Baton Rouge area.The Advocate reports one home was severely damaged by a possible tornado in the community of Central. Baton Rouge...
Jun 6 2019 // The flooding Missouri and Mississippi rivers tested sandbag fortifications on June 5 as surging waters making their way downstream rose to some of their highest levels in more than two decades in parts of Missouri.The...
Jun 6 2019 // For the Parkers of Houston, Texas, there will be no summer vacation this year because they are still paying off the dent in their finances left by 2017’s Hurricane Harvey.The couple joins a growing list of people...
Jun 6 2019 // A toxic stew of coal ash has spilled repeatedly and apparently unnoticed from storage pits at a Wilmington power plant into an adjoining lake, according to a Duke University scientist who said Monday that flooding last...
Jun 6 2019 // Personal lines insurer National General Holdings Corp. (NGHC) will begin offering private flood insurance in Florida later this summer after its acquisition of Syndeste LLC, an insurance technology company.National General...
Jun 5 2019 // Communities along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers are piling up sandbags as another round of flooding strains levees.The Kansas City Star reports that more than 40 levees have been overtopped across Missouri in less...
Jun 4 2019 // Millennials — those born between 1981 and 1996— are nearly three times more likely to have purchased flood insurance than their older Baby Boomer counterparts born between 1944 and 1964, a new survey finds.Overall,...
Jun 3 2019 // The U.S. Congress on Monday approved legislation providing $19.1 billion in emergency funding for disaster recovery efforts throughout the United States, including Puerto Rico, sending it to President Donald Trump to sign...
Jun 3 2019 // Storm-weary residents in Oklahoma were gutting waterlogged homes Sunday as the Arkansas River continued its slow crest rolling hundreds of miles downstream, even as many kept a cautious eye on this week’s weather...