All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 20 2009 // Colorado State University researchers are predicting a more active Atlantic hurricane season next year, with six to eight hurricanes, at least three of them major. Philip Klotzbach and William Gray predict 11 to 16 named...
Dec 15 2009 // The Texas City Dike was not built to serve as a fishing pier or recreation area. But in the 74 years since it was built, the dike turned into more than just a way to protect the Texas City Ship Channel.Boat ramps, fishing...
Dec 11 2009 // Colorado State University researchers are predicting a more active Atlantic hurricane season next year, with six to eight hurricanes, at least three of them major.Philip Klotzbach and William Gray predict 11 to 16 named...
Dec 8 2009 // Galveston County residents needing home repair assistance resulting from 2008’s Hurricane Ike can get federal help through a nearly $100 million grant program.In addition, the Texas Department of Insurance reports...
Dec 6 2009 // 30The number of third quarter mergers and acquisitions of insurance brokerages, according to Audra M. Szollosy, senior vice president with Hales & Co., one of the oldest and most experienced advisory and investment...
Dec 3 2009 // Swiss Re announced that it has entered into a transaction with Successor X Ltd. a Cayman Islands exempted company financed through the offering of insurance-linked securities, to receive up to $150 million of payments.They...
Dec 3 2009 // A Dallas and New Orleans-based hurricane restoration company that has been subject to numerous lawsuits since Hurricane Katrina, and several of the company’s executives, have been charged by the Securities and...
Dec 2 2009 // The Atlantic hurricane season ended this Monday with barely a whimper: Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States.Since June, when the season began, just nine named storms developed. Only three of them became...
Nov 25 2009 // A Miami condominium association is suing its insurer, QBE Insurance Corp., and its Florida general managing agent, for more than $500 million in damages, claiming bad faith and deception in handling hurricane claims.Daniel...
Nov 24 2009 // Colorado-based weather researchers say three hurricanes formed in the Atlantic this year, two fewer than they predicted before the season and one less than their August update called for.Colorado State University...
Nov 19 2009 // Hawaii is escaping the 2009 hurricane season unscathed unless a last-minute storm strikes.There are about two weeks remaining in this year’s hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30. But officials at the Central Pacific...
Nov 15 2009 // Though it may seem like the debate over the creation of a national catastrophe insurance plan is a relatively recent phenomenon, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners actually began addressing the issue as...
Nov 10 2009 // A weakening Tropical Storm Ida lashed the U.S. Gulf Coast with drenching rain and high surf Tuesday as it moved ashore after shutting down almost 30 percent of Gulf of Mexico energy production.Ida, once a Category 2...
Nov 9 2009 // Hurricane Ida headed toward oil and gas facilities in the central Gulf of Mexico on Monday on a path to the U.S. Gulf Coast after killing 124 people in El Salvador following floods and mudslides.U.S. oil companies were...
Nov 9 2009 // Energy companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico shut in oil and natural gas production and a major gas hub was closed on Monday as Hurricane Ida spun toward the region.The Independence natural gas hub — the largest...
Nov 6 2009 // According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide and the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Hurricane Ida made landfall in eastern Nicaragua on Thursday morning, causing damage to homes and knocking out power to...
Nov 1 2009 // Though it may seem like the debate over the creation of a national catastrophe insurance plan is a relatively recent phenomenon, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners actually began addressing the issue as...
Oct 26 2009 // Poverty and climate hazards make the southeast United States the country’s most vulnerable area to climate change impact, Oxfam America said.A report released by the relief organization identified high-risk...
Oct 22 2009 // If the stock market and weather are any indication, third-quarter earnings reports from insurers will look a lot better than they did a year ago.The big companies, which began their reporting season today with Travelers...
Oct 22 2009 // Using data from Hurricane Katrina and four other destructive storms, researchers from Johns Hopkins and Texas A&M universities say they have found a way to accurately predict power outages in advance of a hurricane....