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Senators Agree Federal Hurricane Prevention for New Orleans Worked During Ida

Oct 12 2021 // U.S. senators on Oct. 6 promoted a federal hurricane system’s performance in New Orleans during Hurricane Ida, but noted that other regions experienced devastation that is likely to worsen as climate change produces...

Swiss Re Estimates Hurricane Ida Could Cost Insurers $30 Billion

Oct 6 2021 // On an industry level, Swiss Re now estimates that total insured market losses from Hurricane Ida to be in the range of $28–30 billion, excluding federal flood insurance losses.Hurricane Ida, the second-most intense...

Swiss Re Estimates Hurricane Ida Could Cost Insurers $30 Billion

Oct 5 2021 // On an industry level, Swiss Re now estimates that total insured market losses from Hurricane Ida to be in the range of $28–30 billion, excluding federal flood insurance losses.Hurricane Ida, the second-most intense...

Louisiana Extends Hurricane Ida Insurance-Related Emergency Rule

Sep 28 2021 // Louisiana extended the emergency rule that allows suspension of insurance related statutes in the 25 parishes affected by Hurricane Ida, the insurance department said.The Louisiana Department of Insurance reported that...

Shell Plans Mid-October Post-Hurricane Restart for Louisiana Refinery

Sep 28 2021 // Royal Dutch Shell Plc tentatively plans the first restart of a production unit at its 230,611 barrel-per-day (bpd) Norco, Louisiana, refinery for mid-October, sources familiar with plant operations said on Monday.A Shell...

Damage from Hurricane Ida to Cut Shell Oil Production Until Early Next Year

Sep 21 2021 // Royal Dutch Shell, the largest U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil producer, said damage to offshore transfer facilities from Hurricane Ida will cut production into early next year, slashing deliveries of a type of crude oil prized by...

Analysis: Ida’s Destruction May Help Louisiana’s Hurricane Laura Victims

Sep 20 2021 // Hurricane Ida’s thrashing left homes in mangled heaps across southeastern Louisiana, but in an uncomfortable twist, the storm might have been a boon to southwestern parishes still struggling to recover from last...

AIR: Hurricane Ida Losses Could Reach $30B

Sep 20 2021 // Modeling firm AIR Worldwide updated its insured loss estimates for Hurricane Ida and now projects that Ida’s insured industry losses will range from $20 billion to $30 billion.The estimate includes inland flood...

RMS Estimates US$31– $44 Billion in Total U.S. Onshore and Offshore Insured Losses from Hurricane Ida

Sep 17 2021 // Estimates reflect insured wind, storm surge, and inland flooding impacts in the U.S., including losses to the National Flood Insurance Program and the private flood market.Newark, CA – September 17, 2021 – RMS®, the...

AccuWeather: Nicholas Hits Texas as Cat 1 Hurricane

Sep 14 2021 // Nicholas made landfall as a hurricane, packing 75-mph winds, on the coast of Texas on Monday night, and AccuWeather forecasters say the slow-moving storm will unleash life-threatening flooding along the Texas Gulf Coast,...

AIR Says Hurricane Ida Insurance Losses Could Reach $30 Billion

Sep 13 2021 // Modeling firm AIR Worldwide has updated its insured loss estimates for Hurricane Ida and now projects that Ida’s insured industry losses will range from $20 billion to $30 billion.The estimate includes inland flood...

U.S. Hurricane Ida, Haiti Quake, Multiple Major Wildfires Among August’s Disasters: Aon

Sep 13 2021 // Hurricane Ida will likely become one of the costliest U.S. mainland hurricanes on record both on a nominal and inflation-adjusted basis, according to Aon’s monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluated the...

Louisiana Orders Insurers to Pay Hurricane Ida Evacuation Expenses

Sep 9 2021 // Louisiana’s top insurance regulator on Sept. 7 directed insurance companies pay policyholders’ Hurricane Ida evacuation expenses as damaged infrastructure and dangerous living conditions in Southeast Louisiana...

U.S. Probing Nearly 350 Reports of Oil Spills in Hurricane Ida’s Wake

Sep 7 2021 // The U.S. Coast Guard said on Sept. 6 it was investigating nearly 350 reports of oil spills in and along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in the wake of Hurricane Ida.Ida’s 150 mile-per-hour (240 kph) winds wreaked havoc on...

Entergy Louisiana: Hurricane Ida Power Restoration Could Take Weeks

Sep 7 2021 // Full restoration of electricity to some of the hardest-hit areas of Louisiana battered to an unprecedented degree by Hurricane Ida could take until the end of the month, the head of Entergy Louisiana warned Sept. 4.At...

AIR Worldwide Estimates Insured Losses for Hurricane Ida Could Be Up to $25 Billion

Sep 3 2021 // Insurance industry insured losses to onshore property resulting from Hurricane Ida’s winds and storm surge will range from $17 billion to $25 billion.AIR’s modeled insured loss estimates include insured...

Ida’s Inland Path May Reveal Hidden Risk, Test Mapping Methods of Hurricane Floods

Sep 2 2021 // With remnants of Ida delivering downpours and fierce winds from North Carolina to New Jersey, U.S. government methods for assessing flood risks may be put to the test this week.While coastal communities would seem to have...

Floods, Outages Stall Oil Companies’ Efforts to Restart After Hurricane Ida

Aug 31 2021 // Widespread flooding from Hurricane Ida and power outages slowed efforts on Tuesday by energy firms to assess damages at oil production facilities, ports and refineries.Nearly all of Louisiana lost electrical power on...

Higher Rebuilding Prices Expected to Boost Hurricane Ida’s Insurance Costs

Aug 31 2021 // Insurers are bracing for $15 billion to $30 billion in claims from Hurricane Ida, but the figure could jump higher, in part because of pandemic pricing that has pushed up the cost of lumber and labor to rebuild, insurance...

CoreLogic: Hurricane Ida Threatens 941K Homes with $220B in Rebuilding Cost

Aug 29 2021 // Severe wind, surge inundation and extended heavy rainfall endanger more than 941,000 homes with a reconstruction cost value of all at-risk homes totaling more than $220 billion, catastrophe modeling firm CoreLogic reported...