All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 24 2008 // Long-Term Vision Needed“The nation needs to develop a new long-term vision for its highway system that would include improving conditions and safety and reducing traffic congestion.” —William M. Wilkins,...
Mar 21 2008 // For the past two and a half years, Louisiana’s fishermen have relied on their natural gift for resourcefulness and made do with jury-rigged docks cobbled together from hurricane debris and spent countless hours in...
Mar 21 2008 // Reacting to Gulf Coast hurricanes and potential future storm losses, State Farm said it will limit coverage in Alabama for new policies in Mobile and Baldwin counties beginning April 1.State Farm, based in Bloomington,...
Mar 20 2008 // Americans in the hurricane danger zone may soon be able to use Google to find out if their own home is threatened by a dangerous storm surge, the director of the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.Storm surge, the...
Mar 14 2008 // The Florida Senate Select Committee on Property Insurance Accountability wants to restrict reinsurance costs in rates and strengthen the excess profits law among other things.Co-chaired by Sen. Jeff Atwater, R- North Palm...
Mar 11 2008 // Conflicting rulings by federal judges in New Orleans and in Lake Charles, La., are having major effects on how much money homeowners can collect on damage from the 2005 hurricanes, and there is no quick end to the conflict...
Mar 11 2008 // AIG Private Client Group said it will begin offering its Hurricane Protection Unit service to some of it high net worth policyholders in New York, New Jersey and Florida.The service provides a hurricane mitigation...
Mar 10 2008 // A hurricane that hit Miami in 1926 would cause up to $157 billion in damage if it were to strike today, according to a recent study.U.S. storm costs are rising because of higher populations and wealth on the coasts, not a...
Mar 10 2008 // Property insurance wasn’t supposed to be the big issue in the 2008 Florida Legislature. To the chagrin of many lawmakers, it just won’t go away.Legislators thought they’d largely taken care of the issue...
Mar 10 2008 // A Louisiana Insurance Department report shows that the state-sponsored Citizens Property Insurance Corp. had trouble handling claims for hurricanes Katrina and Rita because it was switching to new outside contractors and...
Mar 6 2008 // The new head of the National Hurricane Center says the big challenge for forecasters is predicting the intensity of hurricanes.Bill Read says there’s been a lot of improvement in track models in recent years. But he...
Mar 6 2008 // The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have reacted sooner to concerns about hazardous fumes in government-issued trailers housing thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims, a CDC official told a...
Mar 3 2008 // The federal official in charge of rebuilding the Gulf Coast after the 2005 hurricanes said he has submitted his resignation because he wants to return to Texas to get back into banking.Donald Powell, former chairman of the...
Feb 25 2008 // A hurricane that hit Miami in 1926 would cause up to $157 billion in damage if it were to strike today, according to a recent study.U.S. storm costs are rising because of higher populations and wealth on the coasts, not a...
Feb 25 2008 // The insurance market in Florida is adjusting to changing conditions – some man-made, others resulting from forces of nature – all of which make property insurance for Florida homeowners more available and more...
Feb 22 2008 // Property insurance wasn’t supposed to be the big issue in the 2008 Florida Legislature. To the chagrin of many lawmakers, it just won’t go away.Legislators thought they’d largely taken care of the issue...
Feb 21 2008 // A report for the Louisiana Insurance Department shows that the state-sponsored “insurer of last resort” had trouble handling claims for hurricanes Katrina and Rita because it was switching to new outside...
Feb 14 2008 // President Bush’s proposed budget would include millions more in funding to improve hurricane forecasts and further research the storms, a federal official said at a recent regional discussion of the budget.The...
Feb 13 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency may expand the use of passenger trains to evacuate the sick and elderly in advance of hurricanes across the Gulf Coast, a FEMA official said.Glenn Cannon, a FEMA assistant...
Feb 10 2008 // New research on the link between the formation of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin and U.S. landfall activity suggests that using Atlantic basin hurricane activity as a proxy for landfall activity can lead to erroneous...