All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 13 2005 // Insurers in Mississippi are expected to pay out $12 billion in insured losses stemming from Hurricane Katrina. According to Property Claims Services, the New Jersey-based subsidiary of the Insurance Service Office, which...
Dec 13 2005 // Two McLennan County, Texas women, apprehended after they claimed to be victims of Hurricane Katrina and attempted to obtain federal emergency benefits, have pleaded guilty to filing false, fictitious or fraudulent claims...
Dec 13 2005 // Texas-based American National Insurance Company reported that its subsidiary property and casualty companies, including American National Property and Casualty (ANPAC) and ANPAC Louisiana Insurance Company and their...
Dec 12 2005 // Recent increased in homeowners insurance rates in south Mississippi can not be attributed to Hurricane Katrina, according to Insurance Department officials, who indicate that Allstate, USAA and the Southern Farm Bureau all...
Dec 12 2005 // With Gulf Coast residents and the insurance industry trying to recover from the country’s worst natural disaster ever, two Insurance Journal reporters set out to see for themselves the effects of Hurricane...
Dec 12 2005 // Thanking insurance carriers on behalf of Louisiana insurance agents and the policyholders they represent for the carriers’ hard work and assistance in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Professional...
Dec 9 2005 // Hurricane Wilma darkened the outlook for Florida orange growers, reducing production estimates by 15 percent, the Agriculture Department said.Still, this year’s crop will outdo last year’s by about 8 percent in...
Dec 8 2005 // Predictions of 17 named storms in the Atlantic basin next year, with nine developing into hurricanes, have been predicted by William Gray and Philip Klotzbach of Colorado State University. The experts forecast five major...
Dec 6 2005 // Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited has updated its assessment of estimated losses from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.Based on the information available and evaluations to date, Aspen estimates that its...
Dec 5 2005 // A list of the 2005 hurricane season’s most unique characteristics and facts has been released by Colorado State University. A CSU statement said that the just-completed hurricane season was the most active and...
Dec 5 2005 // The hurricane “season” is largely expected to come to a finish by the end of November, and for the Caribbean and U.S. coastal regions hopefully it has. However, Hurricane Epsilon, the 29th named storm of this...
Dec 5 2005 // Florida has survived eight hurricanes in 15 months, but more destruction is coming, according to experts at last month’s National Catastrophe Insurance Summit in Burlingame, Calif. It’s just a matter of time,...
Dec 5 2005 // Hurricane Wilma was briefly the most intense Atlantic storm on record as it moved through the Caribbean toward the Gulf Coast. That was the last thing Gulf residents wanted to hear.Two months earlier, Hurricane Katrina had...
Dec 5 2005 // Insurance regulators from California, Florida, Illinois and New York, on the heels of last month’s National Catastrophe Insurance Summit, are peddling a national catastrophe insurance program that they say would aid...
Dec 5 2005 // A major hurricane making landfall in the New York City metropolitan area would result in approximately $50 billion of insured losses with total economic losses exceeding $100 billion, according to an expert. That scenario...
Dec 5 2005 // Insurance regulators from California, Florida, Illinois and New York, on the heels of last month’s National Catastrophe Insurance Summit, are peddling a national catastrophe insurance program that they say would aid...
Dec 5 2005 // Researchers On the Verge of Predicting How Strong and Big a Hurricane Will BecomeHurricane Wilma was briefly the most intense Atlantic storm on record as it moved through the Caribbean toward the Gulf Coast. That was the...
Dec 5 2005 // In public and in an interview with Insurance Journal, Misissippi Insurance Commis-sioner George Dale comes across as a laid-back Mississippi farm-boy, but the commissioner, who has been reelected for eight terms, has...
Dec 5 2005 // For all you lawsuit junkies out there (does it take one to know one?), a Gulf Coast-based law firm has set up a Web log, or blog, that monitors lawsuits filed in relation to the hurricanes that hit Alabama, Louisiana,...
Dec 5 2005 // Florida has survived eight hurricanes in 15 months, but more destruction is coming, according to risk modeling companies and economists who spoke at the National Catastrophe Insurance Summit in Burlingame, Calif.It’s...