All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 14 2003 // AIR Worldwide Corp., a leading catastrophe modeling company, estimates that losses from the recent outbreak of severe weather in the central United States could exceed the $2.2 billion loss caused by a severe weather...
May 8 2003 // Tornadoes that swept across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Tennessee earlier this week could cost insurers at least $325 million — making it one of the top five costliest tornado events, according...
May 7 2003 // Even though preliminary figures are not even available yet, the Insurance Services Office Inc. has labeled the tornadoes that hit 14 Midwestern states an insurance catastrophe, meaning that insured damages are expected to...
May 5 2003 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay an estimated $1.2 billion for insured property-loss claims from winter storms and windstorms that pummeled 10 states in early April, according to preliminary estimates by...
Apr 25 2003 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay policyholders an estimated $1.2 billion for insured property-loss claims from a winter storm and windstorm catastrophe that pummeled 10 states in early April, according...
Apr 17 2003 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale announced that the recent storms that hit central Mississippi are turning out to be much more expensive than previously thought. Dale said preliminary numbers on the cost of...
Apr 14 2003 // Nationwide Insurance reported today that it has received more than 14,500 claims from weekend hail and wind storms that swept through nine states, including Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New York,...
Mar 17 2003 // Preliminary estimates from February’s snow and ice storms that hammered 16 states from the Mid-Atlantic to New England caused less than $20 million in insured losses in Ohio, according to the Ohio Insurance Institute...
Mar 14 2003 // The Erie Insurance Group announced that it has received loss notification from approximately 6,600 policyholders as a result of severe ice, snow and flooding Feb. 14-18 and Feb. 21-23, 2003. It gave preliminary loss...
Mar 10 2003 // Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere for the past year or two, yes, we’re in the midst of a hardening market cycle. After a prolonged soft market period, prices seem to be firming in every segment,...
Mar 10 2003 // Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere for the past year or two, yes, we’re in the midst of a hardening market cycle. After a prolonged soft market period, prices seem to be firming in every segment,...
Jan 9 2003 // California’s Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS), a global provider of products and services for catastrophe risk management, announced that overall losses from Windstorm Calvann, which swept through France and...
Dec 25 2002 // Erie Insurance Group announced that its property and casualty companies would increase loss and loss adjustment expense reserves by approximately $184 million in the fourth quarter of 2002. The company also reported its...
Dec 20 2002 // Insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses $360 million for insured-property losses from the winter storm on Dec. 4-5 that blanketed North Carolina and four other states with snow and ice, according to...
Dec 10 2002 // Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance reported that it expects to receive more than 11,000 claims from the recent winter storms in North Carolina and South Carolina, and estimates insured policyholder losses eventually could be...
Dec 4 2002 // Insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses $460 million for insured-property losses from the rash of tornadoes, strong thunderstorm winds and hail that struck seven states on Nov. 9-10, according to preliminary...
Nov 25 2002 // California-based Risk Management Solutions Inc. (RMS), announced that the windstorm, designated Jeanett, which has hit the U.K., France, and the rest of northern Europe in late October, could cause up to 1 billion Euros...
Nov 19 2002 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced it sent teams of volunteers to provide insurance advice and claim assistance to consumers whose homes and automobiles were damaged by recent storms along the Texas Gulf...
Nov 14 2002 // Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance, the country’s fourth largest homeowners’ insurer, announced that it estimates that insured policyholder losses from last weekend’s tornadoes and hail storms could be more...
Nov 14 2002 // The tornadoes that swept across the eastern United States this past weekend could cost insurers $290 million – making it one of the top five costliest tornado events, according to the Insurance Information Institute...