All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 27 2016 // A powerful spring storm brought strong winds and baseball-sized hail to several central states on April 26, with tornadoes spotted in Kansas and Oklahoma as the severe weather marched east, forecasters said.The storm...
Apr 26 2016 // A.M. Best says year-to-date 2016 results in Texas alone appear to have already met the nine-year average for hail storm damage in the United States.According to Best’s Briefing, titled, “Texas Hail Storm Damage...
Apr 25 2016 // The coming Atlantic hurricane season should produce a near-average 12 named storms before it ends in November, according to Phil Klotzbach, lead author of the pioneering Colorado State University forecast.At least five of...
Apr 21 2016 // The Travelers Companies Inc. reported net income of $691 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2016, down 17 percent from $833 million in the prior year quarter. Operating income in the current quarter was $698 million...
Apr 20 2016 // More than 110,000 vehicles and thousands of homes in Texas regions of north San Antonio and Bexar County were pelted by large hail in what will become the costliest hailstorm in Texas history, according to the Independent...
Apr 18 2016 // A slow moving weather system has dumped up to 20 inches of rainfall west and northwest of Houston causing flooding and travel cancellations, the Insurance Council of Texas reports.Heavy rain primarily east of Austin has...
Apr 18 2016 // Independent insurance agents and brokers from all 50 states convened in Washington, D.C., last week for the biggest and most effective industry gathering of its kind: the Big “I” Legislative Conference. Our...
Apr 18 2016 // Mississippi’s disaster declaration due to the March flooding and severe storms has been extended to 13 additional counties.Gov. Phil Bryant said at the beginning of April that 11 counties were added, followed by two...
Apr 13 2016 // The first three months of 2016 were more active than usual in terms of severe weather in Mississippi. Ed Tarver, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson, tells The Hattiesburg American the cause is...
Apr 13 2016 // The U.S. Small Business Administration is accepting applications for low-interest disaster loans for Florida Panhandle businesses and residents affected by tornadoes and storms in February. The loans are available for...
Apr 11 2016 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association expert panel will hold a public meeting this week to inform the public about the progress of the panel’s work, to allow the public to observe the panel discussing its work,...
Apr 11 2016 // The National Weather Service says storm surveys show seven tornadoes skipped across central Alabama late Wednesday and early Thursday. No one was seriously hurt and most of the twisters were weak, causing only scattered...
Apr 7 2016 // Insurers face a $2.0 billion bill following seven severe storm events across multiple states in March, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team.Overall economic losses...
Apr 4 2016 // Strong storms plowed through Georgia on their way to the Carolinas Friday, spawning at least one confirmed tornado, after setting off tornadoes that swirled through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.The National Weather...
Apr 4 2016 // The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down earlier this week in Dermott, Ark. about 115 miles southeast of Little Rock near the Mississippi border. Meteorologist Anna Wolverton at the weather service’s...
Apr 4 2016 // Gov. Phil Bryant says 11 additional counties have been added to Mississippi’s most recent disaster declaration due to the March flooding and severe storms.In a news release, Bryant said Clarke, Forrest, Greene,...
Apr 4 2016 // Jeff Dailey, CEO of Farmers Insurance, turned what could have been a mere acceptance speech into a lesson-filled personal account of his first time seeing the devastation wreaked by the May 2011 tornado in Joplin,...
Apr 4 2016 // Three homes were damaged and another was destroyed in northwest Arkansas when severe weather swept through the area late on March 23. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says damage was reported in Evansville,...
Apr 1 2016 // April 1, 2016- If you are an insurance agent trying to survive in today’s competitive marketplace, you may have dipped your toes in the flood insurance waters, so to speak. If you have not, get ready to jump in,...
Apr 1 2016 // At least seven people were injured and authorities were evaluating the damage in northeastern Oklahoma after severe storms spawned multiple tornado touchdowns Wednesday night, authorities said.National Weather Service...