All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2005 // Circumstances surrounding Hurricane Katrina are unprecedented in many ways, said Fitch Ratings. So much so that the rating agency may need to reassess the core risk profile of the property/casualty insurance industry.Fitch...
Sep 19 2005 // With the horrors from Hurricane Katrina still flashing on live television, Connecticut emergency officials and Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) met on Sept. 7 to decide how to evacuate 100,000 coastal residents if a Category 4...
Sep 19 2005 // James Lee Witt, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, today announced the formation of a state coalition to better prepare and protect New Yorkers from the consequences of a catastrophic storm,...
Sep 19 2005 // Rita became the 17th named storm of the current season over the weekend, as maximum sustained winds neared 50 mph (85 km/hr) with higher gusts. Miami’s National Hurricane Center warned that the storm could become a...
Sep 19 2005 // Tourists and residents are beginning to evacuate Key West, and homeowners and businessmen are boarding-up, as Tropical Storm Rita continues on a path from east of Nassau, Bahamas toward south Florida.Rita’s winds are...
Sep 19 2005 // Liability Claims Will Range Far-and-Wide for Years to ComeThe New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for...
Sep 19 2005 // Report Warns of Dire Consequences Unless Industry, Government ActHurricane Katrina is a reminder that U.S. insurers, government and consumers are at great risk from escalating losses from hurricanes and other...
Sep 19 2005 // Hurricane Katrina could be called an industry nightmare. Some insurers were still reeling from the effects of the Asian tsunamis and last year’s four hurricanes. Yet when Katrina struck in late August, she forced...
Sep 19 2005 // The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for massive public safety legal claims, began Sept. 1.Based on the...
Sep 19 2005 // Insurance adjusters scrambled to South Florida to work on claims before they realized Hurricane Katrina was going to cross into the Gulf of Mexico and become a catastrophic hurricane devastating Mississippi and...
Sep 19 2005 // In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, insurers in the Midwest rose to the challenge, not only by getting adjusters on the ground as quickly as possible, but offering volunteer services and monetary contributions as well. The...
Sep 19 2005 // Firm’s Mobile Emergency Unit Takes Claims in Baton RougeBefore Hurricane Katrina, Gillis, Ellis and Baker Insurance, a New Orleans-based independent insurance brokerage that writes casualty insurance, liability...
Sep 19 2005 // Two Florida lawmakers, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), have voiced support for a national catastrophe fund insurance companies would establish to provide extra funding in the event of...
Sep 19 2005 // A 12-member Task Force on Long-Term Solutions for Florida’s Hurricane Insurance Market is studying how to help Floridians obtain hurricane insurance, amid complaints that consumers don’t have a seat on the...
Sep 19 2005 // With the horrors from Hurricane Katrina still flashing on live television, Connecticut emergency officials and Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) met on Sept. 7 to decide how to evacuate 100,000 coastal residents if a Category 4...
Sep 19 2005 // Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that U.S. insurers, government and consumers are at great risk from escalating losses from hurricanes and other weather-related events, according to a report by a Boston-based investor and...
Sep 19 2005 // Led Zeppelin, “When the Levee Breaks”When the news media first began bleating about the developing storm that became Hurricane Katrina, I had my doubts. As a long-time observer of the insurance industry,...
Sep 19 2005 // Two Florida lawmakers, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), have voiced support for a national catastrophe fund insurance companies would establish to provide extra funding in the event of...
Sep 19 2005 // In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, insurers in the Midwest rose to the challenge, not only by getting adjusters on the ground as quickly as possible, but offering volunteer services and monetary contributions as well.The...
Sep 19 2005 // The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for massive public safety legal claims, began Sept. 1.Based on the...