All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 8 2000 // After six years that set a record for Atlantic Basin tropical storms and hurricane activity, William Gray and his associates at Colorado State University are calling for a season slightly below the long-term average. For...
Oct 30 2000 // U.S. property/casualty insurers recently received good news from the Insurance Services Office Inc.’s (ISO) Property Claim Services (PCS) unit. Third-quarter insured catastrophe losses registered at $315...
Aug 18 2000 // Swiss Re announced that it “has experts available to speak on the risks and costs associated with natural catastrophes and other important topics impacting individuals, businesses and the environment around the...
Jul 24 2000 // Hawaii’s newest local insurance company has begun writing hurricane insurance and reinsurance. Zephyr Insurance Company will initially write only hurricane insurance for the residents of Hawaii and has already begun...
Jul 21 2000 // EQETrac EQECAT and Atmospheric and Environmental Research have made available the EQETrac, an advanced proprietary real-time hurricane forecasting system. The system provides subscribers with probabilistic estimates of...
Jun 26 2000 // Colorado State University’s hurricane forecast team led by William Gray has revised its April forecast, now predicting 12 named storms, eight hurricanes and four major hurricanes for the 2000 season, which began June...
Jun 23 2000 // Lloyd’s will make Menlo Park based Risk Management Solutions’ (RMS’) RiskOnline.com service available to members to track the progress of hurricanes in real time for the rest of the year 2000. Access will...
Jun 12 2000 // Residents along the East and Gulf Coasts and in the Caribbean Islands should brace for an above-average 2000 Atlantic hurricane season on par with last year’s season.Forecasters with both the National Oceanic and...
Jun 12 2000 // Nobody likes to lose their shirt, least of all insurers. So it’s no surprise that, following the huge losses caused by natural disasters in the past few years, insurers have bolted from the homeowners market, leaving...
Jun 8 2000 // Colorado State University’s hurricane forecast team, led by William Gray, has revised its April forecast, now predicting 12 named storms, eight hurricanes and four major hurricanes for the 2000 season, which began...