All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 5 2011 // U.S. property insurers like Travelers Cos. Inc. and Chubb Corp. were expecting a relatively mild fourth quarter for catastrophe losses, but a series of punishing storms across the country in December may have blown away...
Jan 4 2011 // Gov. Mike Beebe has declared two Arkansas counties affected by a tornado and severe storms as state disaster areas. Severe weather on Dec. 31 caused three deaths and eight injuries, along with damage to more than 30 homes...
Dec 31 2010 // Maine Gov. John Baldacci is requesting a damage assessment for the torrential rainstorm that deluged eastern Maine earlier this month.The Dec. 12 storm dropped 6 to 8 inches of rain in places, washing out local roads,...
Dec 22 2010 // Whitney Crowder doesn’t remember the day her father died.What happened Dec. 16, 2000, has gone down in state history: Eleven people, including her father and baby brother, died when an F4 tornado hit south...
Dec 17 2010 // Terrebonne Parish is planning to demolish about 450 hurricane-damaged homes, mostly in low-lying bayou communities.Parish officials said the structures will be torn down this spring because they are in such dilapidated...
Dec 5 2010 // Earlier in 2010, Colorado State’s Tropical Meteorology Project forecasted eight hurricanes to emerge from 15 named tropical storms in the Atlantic basin. Of those, four were forecasted to become major hurricanes. On...
Dec 3 2010 // To mark the end of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Risk (TSR), which provides resources for predicting and mapping tropical storm activity worldwide and is co-sponsored by Aon Benfield, has issued a...
Dec 2 2010 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine said that heavy winds, rain and thunderstorms on Nov. 30 caused an estimated $5 million in insured losses in Gwinnett County on Nov. 30. This estimate includes damage to cars...
Dec 1 2010 // The world really gets no respite from global weather events. Just as the hurricane season draws to a close, the European windstorm season, which usually lasts around four months, starts up.In its examination of the onset...
Nov 17 2010 // Aon Benfield has issued a briefing on uncommon European winter storm tracks in conjunction with the University of Cologne. The research points to a lower total number of events in the future, but “indicates intense...
Nov 16 2010 // Earlier in 2010, Colorado State’s Tropical Meteorology Project forecasted eight hurricanes to emerge from 15 named tropical storms in the Atlantic basin. Of those, four were forecasted to become major hurricanes. On...
Nov 14 2010 // In the midst of a disaster, our customers count on us to get our jobs done… No excuses!”That promise by County Wide Insurance, an agency in Dexter, Mo., was severely tested on Jan. 27, 2009, when an ice storm...
Nov 14 2010 // In the midst of a disaster, our customers count on us to get our jobs done … No excuses!”That promise by County Wide Insurance, an agency in Dexter, Mo., was severely tested on Jan. 27, 2009, when an ice storm...
Nov 8 2010 // Minnesota can claim this touchdown record.It leads all others in the number of tornadoes that have swept through the state this year. The National Weather Service says 104 tornadoes touched down in Minnesota in 2010,...
Nov 3 2010 // Swiss Re’s Capital Markets Division has structured €275 million [$386 million] in notes as an alternative risk transfer vehicle, covering European windstorm events, for AXA Global P&C’s Calypso Capital...
Nov 1 2010 // In the midst of a disaster, our customers count on us to get our jobs done … No excuses!”That promise by County Wide Insurance, an agency in Dexter, Mo., was severely tested on Jan. 27, 2009, when an ice storm...
Oct 29 2010 // The 8:00 a.m. AST bulletin from the National Hurricane Center in Miami placed the season’s latest tropical storm, Shary, around 220 miles (355 kms) south–southwest of Bermuda.The storm, which coalesced from a...
Oct 28 2010 // A massive storm making its way through a big chunk of the United States brought a bit of everything: strong winds, rain, tornadoes and now even some snow for parts of the Midwest.The storm packed wind gusts of up to 81 mph...
Oct 22 2010 // Estimated 2010 storm losses in Kansas climbed to $220 million as of the end of August, according to the Kansas Department of Insurance. There were approximately 59,400 storm claims filed during that period. The highest...
Oct 15 2010 // Tropical Storm Paula weakened further Thursday, but still packed enough punch to blast through the Cuban capital with driving rains and high winds that toppled trees, flooded streets and left large swaths of the city...