All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 28 2005 // The U.K.’s Brit Insurance Holdings PLC announced that it has preliminarily estimated its combined loss claims from Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Flood and Rita at 145 million pounds ($256 million).“This...
Sep 28 2005 // The Louisiana Department of Labor announced that those affected by Hurricane Rita have until Nov. 30 to file for Disaster Unemployment Assistance.Because of the widespread devastation to homes and businesses in...
Sep 28 2005 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has sent a letter to federal officials requesting that Texas get the same level of reimbursement for Hurricane Rita as for Hurricane Katrina.Perry also joined with Houston Mayor Bill White and Harris...
Sep 28 2005 // There is a strong likelihood another hurricane will occur in October and the most likely landfall will be Florida and Gulf region, according to meteorologists with the Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic...
Sep 27 2005 // Before Hurricane Rita made landfall, AppRiver, a Gulf Breeze, Fla. provider of business email security solutions, offered companies in the path of Hurricane Rita a free service to protect and preserve email traffic in case...
Sep 27 2005 // Seattle-based Safeco announced estimated after-tax catastrophe losses from Hurricane Katrina of $78 million, or $0.61 per diluted share.Safeco’s gross pretax losses before reinsurance are estimated to be $170...
Sep 27 2005 // Texans who can’t return home because of the damage caused by Hurricane Rita can file a claim without seeing what has happened to their property, according to the Insurance Council of Texas.By filing a claim now, the...
Sep 26 2005 // Fitch Ratings said Monday it expects Hurricane Rita will represent a material loss to the insurance industry and will create further strain on insurers’ claims-adjusting resources. However, Fitch does not expect any...
Sep 26 2005 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has advised Floridians affected by Hurricane Rita to use extra caution when hiring workers to help clean up the damage caused by the storm. In particular, Crist warned those who are...
Sep 26 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) will reopen some of its field offices on Sept. 26 as local areas clean up from Hurricane Rita. Other field offices will remain closed until at...
Sep 26 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that beginning Sept. 26, staff members are being deployed to its Houston Insurance Assistance Center (IAC) to assist Hurricane Rita victims with their insurance questions and...
Sep 26 2005 // A new, expanded database to track vehicles flooded by Hurricane Katrina has been set up to prevent them from turning up on used car lots around the country, the Associated Press and New Orleans Times-Picayune...
Sep 26 2005 // Crawford & Company Catastrophe Services has kept a watchful eye on Hurricane Rita, the year’s 17th named storm, as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico to Texas and Louisiana. Crawford, which already had...
Sep 26 2005 // The St. Paul Travelers Companies Inc. announced that its preliminary estimate for losses relating to Hurricane Katrina is approximately $800 million, after tax and after the impact of reinsurance, and including the cost of...
Sep 25 2005 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, has estimated that insured losses from Hurricane Rita are likely to range from $4 to $7 billion, based on current...
Sep 25 2005 // NIP Specialty Brokerage, LLC, a wholesale brokerage specializing in construction, released an Insurance Advisory focusing on market impacts of Hurricane Katrina on the construction industry, with a focus on home...
Sep 23 2005 // Professional Insurance Agents in Texas who are fleeing Hurricane Rita are getting a helping hand from their fellow PIA agents. Agents located inland from the projected landfall of Rita have offered temporary office space...
Sep 23 2005 // IIAT is ready to assist its members following the damage caused by Hurricane Rita. The association announced it is taking the following steps as part of its assistance plan:1. Beginning Monday, Sept. 26, IIAT will have a...
Sep 22 2005 // As Hurricane Rita barrels toward the Texas coast the American Insurance Association (AIA) offered the following tips to assist consumers and hurricane victims in protecting their homes and recovering from the storm as...
Sep 22 2005 // Professional Insurance Agents of Florida instructor Ron Silverman answered 40 essential questions about catastrophe planning for hurricanes during educational sessions titled “Lessons Learned from Charley, Frances,...