All the headlines from our Natural Disasters Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 13 2019 // No damage or injuries have been reported after an early Thursday morning earthquake struck near the border of Missouri and Arkansas.The U.S. Geological Survey says the 3.7-magnitude earthquake was recorded early on Sept....
Sep 13 2019 // Bankrupt California utility giant PG&E Corp. resolved a key battle by agreeing to pay $11 billion to settle insurance claims from wildfires blamed on its equipment. An even bigger struggle looms.The settlement with...
Sep 13 2019 // Tropical storm warnings have been declared for the Bahamas, which was just battered by Hurricane Dorian, evidence of strengthening in a system that forecasters say is moving toward Florida or the Gulf of Mexico.The storm...
Sep 12 2019 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has identified appointees to its Actuarial/Underwriting Committee.The committee has historically developed recommendations to the TWIA Board concerning association rate filings,...
Sep 12 2019 // Severe weather, including a probable tornado, struck South Dakota’s largest city late on Tuesday, leaving a trail of damaged buildings, downed power lines, fallen trees and some reports of injuries, officials...
Sep 12 2019 // In its 2019 Wildfire Risk report, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, CoreLogic, shows that across the nation nearly 776,000 homes with an associated reconstruction cost value of...
Sep 12 2019 // Nearly 776,000 homes with a reconstruction cost value of more than $221 billion are at extreme risk of wildfire damage, a new report out Thursday shows.The 2019 CoreLogic Wildfire Risk Report examines single-family and...
Sep 11 2019 // A storm cell that passed over Portland, Ore., prompted two tornado warnings after trained storm spotters saw funnel clouds north and south of the Columbia River.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that forecasters said the...
Sep 11 2019 // Federal Emergency Management Agency officials who oversaw the reconstruction of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid and the former president of Cobra Acquisitions were arrested on fraud and conspiracy charges linked to...
Sep 10 2019 // The hit CBS Corp. comedy “Young Sheldon” about a child genius, wasn’t so smart when it came to a mock tornado warning, according to the Federal Communications Commission.Even modified, the tornado warning...
Sep 10 2019 // California utility giant PG&E Corp. has issued its long-awaited plan for emerging from the largest utility bankruptcy in U.S. history: Raise debt, offer equity and cap the wildfire liabilities that led to its collapse...
Sep 10 2019 // Insured losses in the Caribbean from Hurricane Dorian is estimated at $3.5 billion to $6.5 billion, according to RMS, the risk modeling and analytics firm.This estimate represents insured losses associated with wind and...
Sep 10 2019 // A typhoon blew across the Tokyo metropolitan area Monday morning, killing one person and causing dozens of injuries, while disrupting rush-hour travel and knocking out power.Several railway and subway operators suspended...
Sep 10 2019 // Residents and the insurance industry in Southeast states are feeling relieved after Hurricane Dorian grazed the U.S. coastline last week just days after it caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas.While the storm was at...
Sep 9 2019 // Aon plc has launched Automated Event Response (AER), designed to enable insurers to view real-time portfolio risks from two of the costliest perils: U.S. hurricane and European windstorm.Insurers, which aim to indemnify...
Sep 9 2019 // Burns & Wilcox has formed an exclusive partnership with Wildfire Defense Systems, Inc. (WDS) to provide WDS’ full suite of wildfire prevention and mitigation services to homeowners, with no minimum property value...
Sep 6 2019 // Sep 6, 2019, 7:48 AM— Hurricane Dorian is churning over the Outer Banks of North Carolina, battering the shore with driving rain and wind as it continues its march north and begins moving away from the U.S. coast.The...
Sep 6 2019 // Richard Johnson said his six-year-old brother Adrian was just too small to withstand Hurricane Dorian. The boy was blown into churning storm surge and is among thousands of people missing, many of them children, after the...
Sep 5 2019 // Hurricane Dorian inflicted an estimated $7 billion in total insured and uninsured losses on the Bahamas, according to catastrophe risk modeling firm Karen Clark & Company (KCC).This includes building, contents, and...
Sep 4 2019 // FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Practically parking over the Bahamas for a day and a half, Hurricane Dorian pounded away at the islands Tuesday in a watery onslaught that devastated thousands of homes, trapped people in attics...