All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2022 // Agriculture losses in Florida from Hurricane Ian’s high winds and drenching rains could reach $1.56 billion, with citrus, cattle, vegetable and melon operations among the hardest hit, the University of Florida...
Oct 19 2022 // Hurricane Fiona is estimated to have caused C$660 million (US$436.8 million) in insured damage, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), which quoted initial estimates from Catastrophe Indices and Quantification...
Oct 18 2022 // Swiss Re forecast on Tuesday a third-quarter net loss of around $500 million after the reinsurance company absorbed preliminary claims from Hurricane Ian of approximately $1.3 billion.“While the 2022 target of 10%...
Oct 17 2022 // Four years before Category 4 Ian wiped out parts of southwest Florida, the state’s Panhandle had its own encounter with an even stronger hurricane, Michael. The Category 5 storm all but destroyed one town, fractured...
Oct 17 2022 // A Florida senator is calling for action from the Transportation Department and automakers after a series of electric vehicle fires tied to Hurricane Ian.The storm caused flooding and destruction across the state, and fire...
Oct 17 2022 // While some analysts are predicting that the property insurance industry will be able to manage Hurricane Ian and its estimated $50 billion in insured losses, a few are now warning that the storm could significantly erode...
Oct 12 2022 // According to Stonybrook Capital, the damage from Hurricane Ian will result in the largest-ever insured loss event in nominal dollars.The advisory and investment banking firm focused on the insurance industry said the...
Oct 11 2022 // As Hurricane Ian bore down on Florida, normally reliable computer forecast models couldn’t agree on where the killer storm would land. But government meteorologists are now figuring out what went wrong – and...
Oct 10 2022 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) has launched the IICF Hurricane Ian Relief Fund to support those in need in the wake of Hurricane Ian.Funds will benefit Team Rubicon, a nonprofit providing emergency...
Oct 10 2022 // MEXICO CITY (AP) – Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast on Sunday after lashing Colombia’s San Andres island, and a weakened storm was expected to emerge over the Pacific.Julia hit as a...
Oct 10 2022 // Property data and analytics provider CoreLogic included new and updated projections of storm surge and flood losses for Hurricane Ian for a final tally of between $41 billion and $70 billion in insured and uninsured flood...
Oct 7 2022 // The waters have receded, but the stink lingers. As Emma Reynolds Ezell surveys the damage that a night of 100 mile-per-hour winds wrought on her orange groves, she just can’t get over the stench. It’s nothing...
Oct 4 2022 // On September 28, 2022, the nearly Category 5 Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida with maximum sustained winds clocked at approximately 150 MPH. Reports out of Lee County, Florida have been particularly...
Oct 3 2022 // Insured losses from Hurricane Ian to onshore property will be between $42 billion and $57 billion, with much of the damage – $38-51 billion – coming from wind damage, according to Verisk.“Damage was more severe...
Oct 3 2022 // Actor Anthony Mackie was not carrying his Captain America shield when he returned to his hometown of New Orleans to help repair hurricane-damaged roofs. But for people in his old neighborhood, knowing their tarp-covered...
Oct 2 2022 // Catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Company (KCC) late Friday said the firm estimates insured losses from Hurricane Ian will near $63 billion.Should KCC’s calculations hold true, Ian will surely be remembered as...
Sep 30 2022 // Wind and storm-surge losses from Hurricane Ian could reach as $47 billion in Florida alone, a figure made larger by inflation and rising interest rates, the property analytics firm CoreLogic said in a new...
Sep 30 2022 // Hurricane Ian swamped a Florida hospital from both above and below, the storm surge flooding its lower level emergency room while fierce winds tore part of its fourth floor roof from its intensive care unit, according to a...
Sep 30 2022 // Investors who backstop Florida’s insurance industry by buying catastrophe bonds are girding for substantial losses from Hurricane Ian, threatening to crimp a key source of capital for the sector and push up insurance...
Sep 28 2022 // With maximum sustained winds of 150 mph at just after 3 p.m. on Sept. 28, Hurricane Ian was just shy of Category 5 status when it made landfall in Cayo Costa, Fla.Ian, one of the strongest hurricanes to ever make U.S....