All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 12 2007 // Alabama and Florida officials started a jointly funded project this week that will provide a four-lane hurricane evacuation route from the Florida Panhandle to Interstate 65 in Alabama.It’s a rare case in which a...
Sep 11 2007 // In testimony today before the North Carolina Building Code Council, the American Insurance Association urged that stronger hurricane resistant construction standards be required for all areas of the coast vulnerable to...
Sep 10 2007 // Hurricane expert William Gray downgraded his 2007 Atlantic storms forecast slightly, but he still predicted above-average activity for the rest of the season, with five more hurricanes, two of them major.As Hurricane Felix...
Sep 10 2007 // Florida’s property insurance industry is in the middle of the hurricane season — the political hurricane season.The state’s politicians promised voters their insurance premiums would go down after the state...
Sep 10 2007 // The owners of a nursing home in St. Francisville, La., where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were acquitted Sept. 7 of negligent homicide and cruelty charges for not evacuating the facility as the storm...
Sep 7 2007 // Policy language that a major insurance company invoked to deny Gulf Coast homeowners’ claims after Hurricane Katrina is at the center of a case that was scheduled for a hearing Sept. 6 in a federal appeals court in...
Sep 4 2007 // Both AIR Worldwide and Risk Management Solutions have issued bulletins commenting on Hurricane Felix. Its sudden formation and rapid strengthening into a category 5 storm are virtually unprecedented.“Since 1900, only...
Sep 4 2007 // Hurricane Felix, which is poised to come ashore along the border of Nicaragua and Honduras later today, is a strange storm (See following article). It developed suddenly from a tropical depression on Friday, Aug. 31 into a...
Sep 4 2007 // Felix has a little sister in the Pacific Ocean that has already caused the deaths of 8 people from landslides triggered by heavy rains near Acapulco. The storm first formed last Thursday, Aug. 30, and has been steadily...
Sep 4 2007 // As Labor Day tourists take an end-of-summer beach trip, owners of thousands of condominiums that line the Alabama Gulf Coast say they’re getting burned by soaring insurance premiums.Insurance legislation aimed at...
Sep 3 2007 // A preliminary report from the federal government has found no evidence to support allegations that private insurers improperly shifted wind damage claims from Hurricane Katrina onto the federal government’s flood...
Sep 3 2007 // Report: insurers did not shift wind claimsA preliminary report from the federal government has found no evidence to support allegations that private insurers improperly shifted wind damage claims from Hurricane Katrina...
Sep 2 2007 // The second strong hurricane of the season, Felix, is currently roiling the waters of the Southern Caribbean, as it passes over the Netherlands Antilles. The islands – Bonaire, Curaçao and Aruba are close to the...
Aug 30 2007 // Two years after Hurricane Katrina decimated the homes of thousands of Gulf Coast residents insurance companies are still systematically denying policyholders fair and just claims payments following this and other natural...
Aug 29 2007 // The head of a Texas National Weather Service office will join the staff of the National Hurricane Center, officials announced Monday.Bill Read will become acting deputy director Sept. 4, National Weather Service spokesman...
Aug 29 2007 // South Carolina’s beaches overall are well prepared to withstand the winds and waves of this year’s hurricane season, but there are a few spots along the coast to worry about, a state official...
Aug 29 2007 // Insurance companies in New York may not refuse to renew homeowners insurance policies based on whether a policyholder has other business such as an auto or life policy with them, under a new order from the state insurance...
Aug 28 2007 // Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were a $100 billion blow to Louisiana buildings and infrastructure, and federal aid and insurance payments fall about $34 billion short of making up for the losses, a state agency says.The $100...
Aug 27 2007 // Courts in Louisiana already inundated by a wave of litigation against insurance companies over damage from Hurricane Katrina are bracing for a last-minute barrage of lawsuit filings as a deadline nears.Thousands of...
Aug 27 2007 // The board that invests state money is delaying a bond issue meant to shore up Florida’s backup Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, waiting until financial markets stabilize before completing the bond sale.The state Board of...