All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 22 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance industry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
Aug 22 2006 // Trial attorneys’ charges that the insurance industry is putting profits over people in the handling of claims from Hurricane Katrina are being dismissed by industry trade groups.The Florida Insurance Council (FIC),...
Aug 21 2006 // Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco met with insurance industry executives on Aug. 17, seeking ways to keep insurers writing homeowners policies in Louisiana after the twin punches of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.The private...
Aug 21 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he has sued an economy motel operator for charging exorbitant rates to evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita in September 2005. The suit alleges the Lone Star Motel in Waco, Texas,...
Aug 21 2006 // Every year, just before daylight savings time rolls around, I get a package in the mail with a 9-volt battery.The package is from my mortgage company, sending me a reminder to change the battery in my smoke detector. That...
Aug 21 2006 // Forecasters are saying that the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season should be slightly less active than earlier predicted.The National Hurricane Center and other National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agencies said...
Aug 21 2006 // Louisiana officials expect 123,000 homeowners with damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita are eligible to receive grants from the state’s $7.5 billion “Road Home” housing aid program, The Associated...
Aug 21 2006 // Every year, just before daylight savings time rolls around, I get a package in the mail with a 9-volt battery. The package is from my mortgage company, sending me a reminder to change the battery in my smoke detector.That...
Aug 21 2006 // A lot of Floridians have had their homeowners insurance company — call it XYZ Florida Insurance — increase their premium because of huge losses. Weeks later, the residents see XYZ Insurance USA, based in...
Aug 18 2006 // In its recently issued global insurance report A.M. Best Co. concludes that “almost a year after three massive hurricanes—Katrina, Rita and Wilma—the global reinsurance industry is still struggling to manage its...
Aug 18 2006 // A study conducted by the Earth Policy Institute (http://www.earth-policy.org) concludes that a number of people who evacuated their homes in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma may have left permanently.The EPI...
Aug 18 2006 // A federal judge’s ruling that damage from wind-driven water isn’t covered on standard homeowner policies should motivate more Mississippians to purchase flood insurance, says state Insurance Commissioner George...
Aug 18 2006 // Gov. Kathleen Blanco met with representatives of at least a dozen of Louisiana’s largest property insurers on Aug. 17, hoping to ease jitters and keep them in the state after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.Blanco wants...
Aug 17 2006 // Florida homeowners on Aug. 15 flocked to a new state program that offers free hurricane-preparedness inspections and grants to help cover the cost of improvements.More than 3,500 people applied online within hours after...
Aug 17 2006 // An insurance company legally denied coverage to a business seeking to renew its policy in the days before Hurricane Isabel struck North Carolina, the state’s Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 15.HPB Enterprises, the owner...
Aug 16 2006 // Representatives of State Farm Insurance Co. are on a media tour in Mississippi to give a more positive image to the company as it and others in the industry fend off lawsuits filed in the aftermath of Hurricane...
Aug 16 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse an additional $55.89 million to Houston and the Texas Department of Public Safety for costs associated with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, officials said. Houston will...
Aug 16 2006 // According to the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc.’s RIMS Benchmark Survey, commercial insurance premiums were flat to slightly lower in the second quarter of this year compared to the prior year. The RIMS...
Aug 15 2006 // Florida has begun My Safe Florida Home program, a $250 million mitigation program to help Floridians strengthen their homes against hurricanes and to reduce property losses.Tom Gallagher, Florida’s chief financial...
Aug 15 2006 // In a highly anticipated ruling in one of the first wind vs. water insurance claims arising out of Hurricane Katrina, a Mississippi judge has upheld the exclusion for damage caused by water and water-borne materials in an...