All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 19 2004 // Alabama Gov. Bob Riley announced more than $1.2 million dollars in disaster aid has been approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the City of Carbon Hill for infrastructure cost caused by severe...
May 18 2004 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has alerted homeowners and businesses to be aware of scam artists who may attempt to exploit flood victims in the aftermath of fierce weekend storms plaguing Robertson and surrounding...
May 17 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio announced it will host a windstorm insurance underwriting workshop in conjunction with the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. The workshop is scheduled for June 4, 2004,...
May 6 2004 // U.S. Senators Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) this week announced that the City of Jackson will receive $10.9 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help rebuild public housing...
Apr 29 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio announced it will host a windstorm insurance underwriting workshop in conjunction with the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. The workshop is scheduled for June 4, 2004,...
Apr 21 2004 // Montgomery, Ala. -based Alfa Insurance Group and Alfa Corporation have announced preliminary estimates of losses from a series of thunderstorms that struck Alabama in early April. “These thunderstorms produced hail,...
Apr 19 2004 // Spring is here and with it comes unstable weather conditions that can cause problems for consumers and agents alike in the South Central region of the United States. As if ushering in the season, insurers and insurance...
Apr 12 2004 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, has introduced Storm Tracker, a new insurance product that provides coverage for business losses occurring when a hurricane arrives within a...
Apr 6 2004 // Risk Management Solutions Inc. (RMS), a provider of products and services for catastrophe risk management, announced the release of an in-depth study of potential costs to the U.S. insurance industry from a recurrence of...
Jan 20 2004 // Boston’s AIR Worldwide Corporation announced that its Extratropical Cyclone Model for Europe has been incorporated into CLASIC/2, AIR’s detailed risk modeling software system.“The model, which...
Jan 14 2004 // California-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a leading provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, announced that it has performed the risk analysis for the Pylon Ltd. securitization...
Nov 21 2003 // CDS Business Mapping, LLC a provider in online hazard mapping, has released its Florida Windstorm Mitigation Credit Maps. This is a set of three digital maps for insurers to meet the requirements for the new Florida...
Oct 20 2003 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported it has scheduled a hearing on Oct 29 to consider Docket No. 2577, which concerns approval of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s filing of proposed adjustments to...
Oct 10 2003 // New Jersey’s Selective Insurance Group, Inc. announced that third quarter 2003 results will be impacted by estimated losses from Hurricane Isabel of $10 million, pre-tax, as a result of over 1,900 claims. The...
Sep 17 2003 // With Hurricane Isabel threatening North Carolina’s coast, Insurance Commissioner Jim Long today released a comprehensive list of consumer tips to address questions frequently encountered by North Carolinians...
Sep 10 2003 // While Fabian has departed, his sister Isabel now poses a new threat. Currently located in the mid-Atlantic, about 875 miles (1410 kms) East-Northeast of the Leeward Islands, Isabel is a category 4 hurricane with sustained...
Aug 25 2003 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger said the 2003 storm season in Kansas produced more than $256 million in losses of insured property and crops during April through July. “The storm season extended well...
Aug 22 2003 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger said the 2003 storm season in Kansas produced more than $256 million in losses of insured property and crops during April through July. “The storm season extended well...
Aug 19 2003 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley announced that new and final estimates by the state’s Department of Insurance show Tropical Storm Bill caused nearly $22 million in insured damages in...
Aug 18 2003 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) reported that among the state’s costliest and deadliest storms since 1950, a tropical storm that dropped more than three feet of rain on parts of Houston was the costliest weather...