All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2008 // A tornado wiped out 95 percent of Greensburg. Hailstorms rattled the south-central part of the state, damaging roofs. An ice storm crippled the state.With all the large-scale weather events to hit Kansas last year, it...
Jan 30 2008 // The concerns of property insurance in Florida and the perils facing the property insurance industry are some of the key issues to be addressed at the Ninth Annual Windstorm Insurance Conference, set for Feb. 4 – 7 in...
Jan 28 2008 // Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt is seeking federal help recovering from a storm that churned up rare winter tornadoes. Two people died, 30 others were injured and more than 400 homes were damaged in the storms that started the...
Jan 28 2008 // Winter storms continued to soak Southern California and meteorologists warned that wetter weather was on its way.Up to 2 inches of rain fell overnight in valley and coastal areas and about double that in the mountains,...
Jan 25 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance will hold a public hearing on Jan. 29 to consider proposals by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association that concern both residential and commercial properties.TWIA is requesting approval...
Jan 23 2008 // Alabama residents of Lamar and Pickens counties may be eligible for federal assistance resulting from the severe storms and tornadoes that passed through the area on Jan. 10. These counties are eligible because they are...
Jan 23 2008 // Insurance premium discounts will soon be available to homeowners who install storm mitigation improvement devices or build or retrofit their homes to comply with Louisiana’s Uniform Construction Code, Commissioner of...
Jan 16 2008 // Ark. Governor Mike Beebe declared Benton, Conway, Craighead, Poinsett and Pope Counties state disaster areas due to the damage caused by thunderstorms and tornadoes on Jan. 7 and Jan. 8. Beebe’s declaration releases...
Jan 15 2008 // Weather officials have confirmed a tornado touched down and caused damage last week in south central Kentucky. A storm survey team with the National Weather Service rated the tornado an EF-1, with maximum wind speeds of...
Jan 14 2008 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has released a 10-year retrospective report on the 1998 Ice Storm that devastated the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as portions of the northeastern U.S., in January 1998....
Jan 14 2008 // Risk Management Solutions gave details of the recent analysis it conducted for a securitization of windstorm risk in France.The securities were issued through Green Valley Ltd., a special purpose vehicle (SPV), and provide...
Jan 13 2008 // While winter storms do not attract the attention of mega-catastrophes such as hurricanes and earthquakes, these smaller events can add up to impact insurers’ bottom lines. However, insurers can now avail themselves...
Jan 13 2008 // While winter storms do not attract the attention of mega-catastrophes such as hurricanes and earthquakes, these smaller events can add up to impact insurers’ bottom lines. However, insurers can now avail themselves...
Jan 13 2008 // While it’s too soon to tally insured loss estimates from early winter storms that struck the West in January, residents who fled their homes due to flooding are facing damages, all while the National Weather Service...
Jan 10 2008 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund announced it will extend credit to policyholders who have suffered a financial loss or business disruption caused by recent wind and rainstorms that struck the counties...
Jan 10 2008 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm Air Worldwide estimates insured losses from the recent west coast winter storm that occrred January 4-8 could reach as high as $600 million, with the vast majority of those losses in...
Jan 9 2008 // Due to the damages caused by the rain, heavy snow and high winds in the projected series of storms in northern Nevada last weekend, Commissioner of Insurance Alice A. Molasky-Arman has given temporary approval for...
Jan 8 2008 // Swiss Re announced that it has successfully structured and placed €200 million ($294 million) of securities covering windstorm events in France.The deal forms part of a three-year reinsurance agreement between Swiss Re...
Jan 8 2008 // While it’s too soon to tally insured loss estimates, Nevada residents who fled nearly 300 homes flooded when a canal’s earthen bank collapsed are returning to their homes where they will face damage left by the...
Jan 4 2008 // Damage from an ice storm that hit Kansas in early December pushed the 2007 total to more than $625 million in reimbursable losses.But the state adjutant general’s office warned Wednesday that the numbers would likely...