All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 3 2006 // An estimated 500,000 cars were damaged by hurricanes last year. Unfortunately, many of these vehicles have been purchased by dishonest auto dealers, cleaned up and then sold, with their flood damage history illegally...
Apr 3 2006 // The northeast U.S. coast is “long overdue” and could be the target of a serious hurricane, perhaps as early as this season, according to forecasters.Weather experts at the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center say...
Apr 3 2006 // North Carolina officials believe tougher and better building codes are essential to protect property along the coast and safeguard the state’s strong property insurance market.News Currents Tougher building code...
Apr 3 2006 // A high-profile litigator in Moss Point, Miss. said that a whistleblower is helping him build a case against insurers who denied thousands of claims from policyholders whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.Richard...
Apr 3 2006 // City have the same protections as the people in Miami who have stronger building codes in place?”Legislative Update Stronger building codes called for in Florida PanhandleResidents in Florida’s Panhandle will...
Apr 3 2006 // Texas home insurers turned substantial profits last year despite Hurricane Rita’s destruction, prompting state regulators to question whether some companies’ rates are too high, the Associated Press...
Apr 3 2006 // With record hurricane losses in back to back seasons, states along the U.S. Gulf Coast are aiming to boost reserves for their insurers of last resort through the issuance of catastrophe bonds. Louisiana is hard at work...
Apr 3 2006 // TDI’s Selden explains department’s high tech, high touch approachAnd tells a good news/bad news story along the way Texas Department of Insurance Senior Associate Commis-sioner for Consumer Affairs Audrey...
Apr 3 2006 // Totally ready or just terrorism ready?Is the nation’s terrorism-centric focus hurting its efforts to plan for other disasters? Dr. James L. Valverde Jr., director of economics and risk management for the Insurance...
Apr 3 2006 // While homeowners and businesses can physically pickup the pieces following a natural disaster, mending the hearts and minds of those in the field is not so easy.Four industry CEOs recently described the emotional impact...
Apr 3 2006 // Risk Management Solutions, Newark, Calif., expects increases in hurricane landfall frequencies will increase modeled annualized insurance losses by 40 percent on average across the Gulf Coast, Florida and the Southeast,...
Apr 3 2006 // “The ultimate objective is for an insurer is to use an ERM framework to better understand and manage the correlation and diversification of risk across the company and uses this information to determine overall risk...
Apr 3 2006 // An estimated 500,000 cars were damaged by hurricanes last year. Unfortunately, many of these vehicles have been purchased by dishonest auto dealers, cleaned up and then sold, with their flood damage history illegally...
Mar 31 2006 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance reported that the rating agency Standard & Poor’s has given the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) bond issue an ‘A’-minus rating,...
Mar 30 2006 // Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and Speaker Tom Craddick recently released the names of Senate and House of Representatives appointees to the Joint Select Committee on Windstorm Coverage.The Joint Select Committee...
Mar 29 2006 // Ewan Gilmour, Chief Executive of the U.K.’s Chaucer insurance group and Lloyd’s Deputy Chairman, issued a statement praising the market’s underwriters for delivering a series of good results, following...
Mar 29 2006 // After the thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damage from last year’s record hurricane season, emergency planners must “imagine the unimaginable” in preparing for a storms, South Carolina Gov....
Mar 28 2006 // According to Aon’s first “Global Market Property Tracker” the “slide in international property insurance rates” appears to be continuing despite “a number of terrorism incidents around...
Mar 28 2006 // The unprecedented devastation along the Mississippi Gulf Coast wrought by Hurricane Katrina has prompted an outpouring of public and private resources to communities and individuals who have lost everything, Governor Marc...
Mar 28 2006 // Tips about how to obtain wind insurance incentives have been issued by the Florida Department of Financial Services on the department’s website. According to DFS, Floridians may be entitled to discounts on insurance...