All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2008 // A Texas consumer group took issue with the state-chartered windstorm insurance association over its refusal to pay coastal residents for storm surge damage in Hurricane Ike.The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association says it...
Sep 19 2008 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance continues to assess insurance company response to the devastating Sept. 14 windstorms.The storms caused widespread damage, according to reports that insurers submitted to DOI, but...
Sep 18 2008 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) on Sept. 17 announced that anticipated claims from Hurricane Ike will force it to use the entire $370 million remainder of its Catastrophe Reserve Trust Fund, according to...
Sep 16 2008 // The Ohio Department of Insurance is advising residents to move quickly to check for storm damage to homes and vehicles.Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson says if your property was hurt by high winds on Sept. 14, take notes...
Sep 10 2008 // As Hurricane Ike takes aim at the Gulf of Mexico, triggering memories of 2005’s devastating storms, reinsurers see temporary underwriting vehicles as the solution to their capital needs in the event of “the Big...
Sep 7 2008 // Tropical Storm Hanna blew ashore over tourist beaches on the North-South Carolina border early on Sept. 6 at the start of a projected dash up the Eastern Seaboard.The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Hanna’s...
Sep 3 2008 // Both Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and A.M. Best have issued statements following the passage of Hurricane Gustav, which indicate that the storm’s impact on the industry will not be nearly as severe...
Sep 1 2008 // Tropical Storm Fay made a record four landfalls on the northern Gulf Coast last month, drenching and damaging communities, crops, homes and businesses across the Florida peninsula.Gov. Charlie Crist received a major...
Sep 1 2008 // With hurricane season halfway over for 2008, Louisiana has so far dodged the bullet but Texas has taken on two warning shots with Hurricane Dolly and Tropical Storm Edouard. As such storms go, neither packed a lot of...
Aug 28 2008 // After causing more than 20 deaths in Haiti, Tropical Storm Gustav is now heading for Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.The latest update from Miami’s National Hurricane Center indicates that Gustav is gaining...
Aug 26 2008 // With hurricane season halfway over for 2008, Louisiana has so far dodged the bullet but Texas has taken on two warning shots with Hurricane Dolly and Tropical Storm Edouard. As hurricanes and tropical storms go, neither...
Aug 22 2008 // Tropical Storm Fay continues slowly westward across the northern Florida peninsula while tropical storm warnings remain in effect throughout the region, into the panhandle and north through Georgia to the South Carolina...
Aug 21 2008 // Kansas had 1,616 tornadoes, 11 of them were F4 tornadoes and nine were categorized as F5. … The number of tornadoes reported has gone up over 50 percent.Much has been written in the last six weeks about the 2008...
Aug 21 2008 // The rural area to the northeast of Denver, Colo., tops the nation when it comes to regions most prone to tornados, according to Boston-based CDS Business Mapping LLC, an online hazard mapping firm.The top 10 most tornado...
Aug 21 2008 // Tornadoes are usually classified using the Fujita Tornado Scale, or FScale developed by Dr. T. Theodore Fujita at the University of Chicago in 1971, CDS said. Using FScale classifications, the study looked at whether there...
Aug 19 2008 // Tropical Storm Fay remained at tropical storm status when it arrived on Florida’s mainland.As of 8 a.m. EDT (Aug. 19), Fay’s center was north of Immokalee and about 20 miles south of LaBelle and moving toward...
Aug 19 2008 // According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Tropical Storm Fay took an eastward turn sooner than expected and made landfall at Cape Romano, Florida, on Aug. 19 at around 5 a.m. EDT.“Landfall was along...
Aug 18 2008 // Government meteorologists say there were plenty of damaging winds, but no twisters in a storm that spawned a rare tornado warning in New York City. The National Weather Service says crews assessed damage Saturday around...
Aug 18 2008 // As of 11:00 a.m. EDT the center of Tropical Storm Fay was about 70 Miles (115 kms) south-southeast of Key West Florida and about 65 miles (103 kms) east-northeast of Havana Cuba.Florida’s governor has declared a...
Aug 18 2008 // Florida Chief Financial Officer and State Fire Marshal Alex Sink urged Floridians to continue to monitor and prepare for Tropical Storm Fay including taking the necessary financial and fire safety precautions to weather...