All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2008 // Iowa communities are getting help recovering from a series of natural disasters this year with nearly $395 million in state and federal funding.The money will go to at least 3,200 projects. The biggest chunk of it, about...
Oct 20 2008 // The industry group says at least $553.1 million in insured losses were left by remnants of Hurricane Ike, which swept through the state on Sept. 14.The economic crisis with the failures of Lehman Brothers, then AIG, and...
Oct 20 2008 // Carvill Capital Markets recently listed named storm contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, providing coverage for live hurricanes and for an entire hurricane season.Patrick Gonnelli, president of Carvill Capital...
Oct 20 2008 // Carvill Capital Markets recently listed named storm contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, providing coverage for live hurricanes and for an entire hurricane season.Patrick Gonnelli, president of Carvill Capital...
Oct 13 2008 // A month after Hurricane Ike pounded the island, piles of sheetrock, appliances, furniture and family mementos dot most streets in Galveston. Electronic road signs in Southeast Texas flash, “Watch for cows next 20...
Oct 9 2008 // Winds from Hurricane Ike will cost insurance companies at least $553.1 million to cover property damage and other losses in Ohio, making it the state’s most expensive natural disaster in more than three decades, a...
Oct 9 2008 // Two weeks after Hurricane Ike hit Galveston, Texas, on Sept. 13, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the state’s insurer of last resort for wind coverage along the coast, was fielding thousands of claims per...
Oct 8 2008 // Ohio insurers say losses from last month’s windstorm will rival those from the state’s costliest natural disaster of recent decades. The 1974 tornado that devastated the western Ohio city of Xenia caused about...
Oct 7 2008 // Key Louisiana lawmakers plan to challenge property insurers by trying to limit the special deductibles they can impose when homes are damaged by tropical storms and hurricanes.The so-called “named-storm”...
Oct 6 2008 // Carvill Capital Markets recently listed named storm contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange providing coverage for live hurricanes and for an entire hurricane season.Patrick Gonnelli, president of Carvill Capital...
Oct 1 2008 // In an attempt to clear-up some of the confusion regarding claim filing and what is covered by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the group has issued answers to the following frequently asked questions:Question:...
Sep 29 2008 // Damage caused by the wind storm that ripped across Ohio Sept. 14 could hit $500 million or higher, making it one of the state’s costliest natural disasters.The Ohio Insurance Institute says $500 million is a...
Sep 25 2008 // Powerful winds promised to scour the Southeast coast with strong winds and heavy seas, though residents were taking the promise of 50-mile-an-hour gusts in stride. The National Weather Service issued high wind warnings for...
Sep 24 2008 // The Kentucky Office of Insurance says it’s too early to tell if the severe winds caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike will result in insurance rate hikes.The Courier-Journal reported insurers have received tens of...
Sep 23 2008 // Wisconsin emergency management officials say a lack of communication during the 2008, February snow storm backup taught them how to better respond to this spring’s floods. The state Homeland Security Council issued a...
Sep 23 2008 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear requested a presidential disaster declaration to help recover costs for public damages suffered in some 70 counties and cities across the commonwealth.As of Sept. 19, Beshear said 29 counties...
Sep 22 2008 // Officials of the Wakpa Sica (WAHK’-pah SEECH’-uh) Reconciliation Place on the outskirts of Fort Pierre, South Dakota will spend this fall and winter repairing teepees that were damaged by a summer storm.Hail,...
Sep 21 2008 // Downtown Providence was flooded and neighborhoods were destroyed. A group of school children who drowned after their bus was swept off the road were among the hundreds killed.It’s been 70 years since a catastrophic...
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...