All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 5 2006 // In a move it says will “help protect its ability to meet future customer needs throughout Texas while maintaining a strong presence along the Texas coast,” Allstate Texas Lloyds announced it is phasing out...
May 30 2006 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin on May 26 signed a Commissioner’s Order allowing the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) to increase rates for residential homeowners’ wind coverage by 3.1...
May 30 2006 // Colorado can expect three to four catastrophic hailstorms every year, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association. According to the group, the damaging hail season is considered to be from mid-April...
May 30 2006 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions has launched “a fundamentally new platform for quantifying wind-related risk in 12 European countries,” said the announcement.“Meteorological modeling has...
May 26 2006 // A series of violent storms that swept through South Carolina last weekend caused at least $10 million damage, according to the South Carolina Insurance News Service.A survey by the news service, an industry group, shows at...
May 22 2006 // In a move it says will “help protect its ability to meet future customer needs throughout Texas while maintaining a strong presence along the Texas coast,” Allstate Texas Llloyds announced it will phase out...
May 11 2006 // Storms across Arkansas early on Wednesday, May 10 and the night before left a trail of damage, including fallen trees, roof damage and power outages affecting at least 25,000 customers, officials said.Another line of...
May 11 2006 // Late-night tornadoes swept through rural North Texas on May 9, killing three people, hospitalizing 10 and reducing homes to bare concrete slabs, officials said.An elderly couple were found dead in a destroyed home in the...
May 9 2006 // As the recent severe storms across Texas have shown, a disaster can occur in any part of the state and often with little or no warning. Insurance offers financial protection against damage from natural disasters, but you...
May 9 2006 // City officials in Austin, Texas, deployed garbage trucks to collect spoiled food in areas of the city where residents had no power for up to three days.Utility crews scrambled to repair power lines and trim trees on...
May 8 2006 // Scientists show that hurricane storm surges in the Chesapeake Bay could get dramatically worse than the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Isabel in 2003. Under some conditions, the researchers found, a Category 4 hurricane...
May 8 2006 // The number of bills filed by members of the Louisiana Legislature for the regular session that began March 27 was relatively low, according to the Tatman Group’s David Tatman, a lobbyist for the Louisiana Surplus...
May 8 2006 // The 2006 hurricane season is looming and the insurance industry already sees dark clouds on the horizon. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is considerably under-funded in the event a major hurricane makes landfall...
May 8 2006 // As emergency planners and hurricane experts from across the U.S. met in April to plan and prepare for the hurricane season, the timing couldn’t have been better, as massive twisters roared down “tornado...
May 8 2006 // In the aftermath of a large F-3 to F-4 tornado, hundreds of carriers and insurance agents in northern Tennessee and southern Kentucky are paying hundreds of claims.The storm formed April 7 at about 7 p.m., touching down in...
May 8 2006 // More than $25 million in damage occurred in late April in north Georgia when a string of twisters swept through the state, including metropolitan Atlanta, hitting homes and businesses in Cobb, Fulton, Gwinnett and Hall...
May 8 2006 // As emergency planners and hurricane experts from across the U.S. met in April to plan and prepare for the hurricane season, the timing couldn’t have been better, as massive twisters roared down “tornado...
May 8 2006 // Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine described the tornadoes as the second largest insurance disaster in Georgia and as one of the most financially-devastating storms in Georgia’s history.More than $25 million in...
May 8 2006 // The number of bills filed by members of the Louisiana Legislature for the regular session that began March 27 was relatively low, according to the Tatman Group’s David Tatman, a lobbyist for the Louisiana Surplus...
May 8 2006 // The 2006 hurricane season is looming and the insurance industry already sees dark clouds on the horizon. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is considerably under-funded in the event a major hurricane makes landfall...