All the headlines from our Natural Disasters Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 21 2020 // A small earthquake hit a rural area Saturday near the Colorado-Utah border, the University of Utah Seismograph Stations confirmed. The magnitude 4.3 earthquake took place at 7:11 p.m on Saturday. The epicenter was 3 1/2...
Dec 21 2020 // Arriving on the scene after a wildfire has ravaged an area is never easy. One can only imagine what experiencing such devastation is like for the victims of these fires, who have lost homes, livelihoods and even loved...
Dec 18 2020 // A tornado damaged vehicles and buildings on Wednesday while leaving thousands without power in Florida’s Tampa Bay area, authorities said.Most of the damage was in Pinellas County, north of St. Petersburg, the Tampa...
Dec 17 2020 // Latest RMS estimate includes loss from new fires that started and spread following the previous RMS loss estimate in SeptemberNewark, CA – December 15, 2020 – RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk solutions...
Dec 16 2020 // The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed an earthquake struck Hawaii’s Big Island on Monday.The magnitude 4.4 quake was centered about 12 miles southeast of Waimea, Hawaii, at a depth of about 16 miles. The earthquake...
Dec 16 2020 // Weather officials say they’re still assessing the effects of a tornado that touched down in Alabama over the weekend.The National Weather Service said Monday that a storm survey team had found preliminary evidence of...
Dec 15 2020 // The insurance committees of the Louisiana Senate and House of Representatives will hear about the impact of multiple 2020 hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic on insurance rates in a joint meeting on Dec. 16.Presenters...
Dec 15 2020 // A federal judge in western Louisiana has approved a plan on how to settle thousands of lawsuits expected to be filed against insurance companies over damage from a pair of hurricanes that hit the region six weeks...
Dec 15 2020 // The Environmental Protection Agency said it has completed the cleanup of household hazardous waste from properties burned in Oregon wildfires.The September fires led to an initial EPA response in Jackson County, which...
Dec 15 2020 // RMS estimates insured losses from the record-breaking western U.S. wildfires this season will be between $7 and $13 billion.These losses reflect estimates as of Dec. 1. The ignition of the highly damaging Glass Fire and...
Dec 14 2020 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says people who need to file proof of loss documents for insurance claims involving property damage from Hurricane Laura have until February to do so.Donelon’s office says...
Dec 14 2020 // Federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Texas to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by Hurricane Laura from Aug. 23-27, 2020, according to FEMA.Federal...
Dec 14 2020 // Hurricanes Eta and Iota in November topped off the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season when a record of 12 named storms made landfall in the United States. The two final hurricanes of the season had an economic cost of...
Dec 11 2020 // People with losses due to the California wildfires in Fresno, Los Angeles, Madera, Mendocino, Napa, San Bernardino, San Diego, Shasta, Siskiyou and Sonoma counties have just five days left to register for federal aid.These...
Dec 11 2020 // Predictive modelers told California regulators on Thursday that the state’s antiquated rules for calculating wildfire risk when setting property insurance rates discourage innovative mitigation measures that could...
Dec 11 2020 // The family of a veteran helicopter pilot who died when his aircraft crashed as he was dropping water over a California wildfire filed suit Wednesday against the companies that designed and maintained the aircraft.Michael...
Dec 9 2020 // An earthquake rattled Wichita, Kan., on Dec. 8 — the fourth earthquake in the area in the last two weeks.The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 3.0, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It struck in the morning in east...
Dec 9 2020 // Property insurance policyholders Louisiana policyholders who need to file hurricane damage claims have an more time than usual to do so under Louisiana law, according to the Louisiana Department of Insurance.In a media...
Dec 9 2020 // CFC, a specialist insurance provider specializing in emerging risks, has expanded its suite of terrorism and sabotage insurance products to include standalone active assailant cover.The active assailant policy covers...
Dec 8 2020 // The board of directors of Texas’ insurer of last resort for wind and hail for properties along the Texas coast has directed its staff to file a rate increase of 5% for both residential and commercial policies with...