All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2014 // The nation’s Storm Prediction Center intends to broaden its advance warning system for severe weather after finding that days it labeled with a “slight risk” turned out to be pretty nasty.State emergency...
Feb 7 2014 // The Iowa Court of Appeals on Feb. 5 weighed into the murky issue of how to define a storm in Iowa when it ruled that a Cedar Falls mall wasn’t at fault for a woman who fell in its parking lot as freezing rain fell in...
Feb 7 2014 // Utility crews were working feverishly to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the eastern U.S. that were still in the dark and cold on Thursday after an ice storm knocked out electricity to...
Feb 6 2014 // City councilors in Tulsa planned to begin discussions today on a proposed change to the city’s building code that would require storm shelters in new school construction.Building storm shelters in schools has become...
Feb 6 2014 // Hundreds of homes in western England and Wales remained without power today after storms cut lines and damaged railway tracks.About 280 households had electricity cuts as of 8:30 a.m. U.K. time, said Western Power...
Feb 5 2014 // The third annual National Tornado Summit being held Feb. 10 and 11 in Oklahoma City will bring together insurance industry professionals, emergency managers, policymakers and weather experts.Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner...
Feb 5 2014 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak is hosting a consumer assistance event to help tornado survivors with their insurance claims and inform them of important tax information, including possible deductions, the...
Feb 5 2014 // The mothers of two Moore schoolchildren who were killed in last year’s tornado have filed a lawsuit accusing Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin of violating the state’s open records law.The lawsuit was filed in Oklahoma...
Feb 3 2014 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, announced that its initial insured property loss estimate for windstorm Dirk, which affected the UK and France from...
Jan 30 2014 // Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin endorsed a proposal that would enable voters to weigh in on efforts to improve school safety and grant school districts a one-time increase in local bond limits to pay for storm shelters, safe...
Jan 30 2014 // The U.S. Labor Department has given $702,741 to help Arkansas recover from tornadoes and severe storms that hit the state last May and June. The agency said the National Emergency Grant is being given to the Arkansas...
Jan 27 2014 // Federal officials are taking a closer look at how N.J. Gov. Chris Christie’s administration spent $25 million to promote the Jersey shore after Superstorm Sandy. Democratic U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr.’s office...
Jan 23 2014 // The nation’s Storm Prediction Center intends to broaden its advance warning system for severe weather after finding that days it labeled with a “slight risk” turned out to be pretty nasty.State emergency...
Jan 23 2014 // Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Aon Benfield, announced the successful completion of the first European Windstorm indemnity catastrophe bond...
Jan 21 2014 // Experts say the early January’s extreme cold and wind are expected to be one of the costliest weather events in Ohio since the remnants of Hurricane Ike hit in 2008.No solid estimate is available yet, but the Dayton...
Jan 17 2014 // An Oklahoma lawmaker has filed legislation that would ask voters to decide whether to fund storm shelters in public schools. The measure was filed by Rep. Joe Dorman of Rush Springs, a Democratic candidate for governor. It...
Jan 17 2014 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, announced that its initial loss estimate for windstorm Xaver, which affected Western and Northern Europe on 5 and 6...
Jan 13 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) announced it has released to a litigator what it calls “potentially offensive” emails as part of discovery in a lawsuit against the insurer brought on behalf of...
Jan 13 2014 // The Maine Emergency Management Agency says it wants to hear from people who’ve suffered ice storm damage. Maine is collecting information about the damage from the Christmas week storm that knocked out power to more...
Jan 9 2014 // Encouraged by a vigorous period of insurance M&A activity in the second half of 2012, many in the industry had high expectations of robustness in 2013. It’s clear now that 2013 M&A activity did not reach the...