Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ICT Pegs Hurricane Harvey Insured Losses at $19B
Sep 15 2017 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has placed the insured losses from Hurricane Harvey at $19 billion. That number includes an estimated $11 billion in flood losses insured by the National Flood Insurance...
Florida Begins Slow Recovery After Irma’s Hard Hit
Sep 13 2017 // In this Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, photo provided by DroneBase, people trudge through floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Jacksonville, Fla. In a parting blow to the state, the storm caused record flooding in...
Irma’s Path Through the Southeast Causes Flooding; Kills 2 in Georgia, 2 in South Carolina
Sep 13 2017 // Joey Spalding walks back to his truck down the street where he lives, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, on Tybee Island, Ga. Spalding just finished repairing his house from nine inches of water after Hurricane Matthew passed the...
U.S. Flood Insurance Program Expects $11B in Texas Flood Payouts
Sep 13 2017 // U.S. officials estimate the FEMA-run National Flood Insurance Program will make $11 billion in payments for flooding in Texas caused by Hurricane Harvey, the program’s administrator Roy Wright said. Additionally, in...
Florida on Alert for AOB Abuse as Irma Recovery Begins
Sep 13 2017 // As Florida residents return home after being evacuated by Hurricane Irma, the pressure is on the insurance industry to keep a bad situation regarding assignment of benefits abuse in the state from getting worse. Florida...
Key Items to Remember After the Storm Passes Over
Sep 13 2017 // I wasn’t planning on writing about hurricane season again, but circumstances made it feel like the right thing to do. This hurricane season is already memorable, and it’s still got over two months to go. The...
Texas GOP Leaders Push for Expensive, Long-Delayed Flood Infrastructure Projects
Sep 12 2017 // In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is calling for the construction of flood control infrastructure in the Houston area — things he said should have been built “decades and decades...
Florida Residents Return to Irma’s Battered Homes, Flooded Streets, Power Outages
Sep 11 2017 // Storm-shocked Floridians returned to shattered homes on Monday as the remnants of Hurricane Irma pushed inland, leaving more than half of all state residents without power and city streets underwater from Orlando and...
Louisianans Again Given More Time to Submit Flood Insurance Form
Sep 11 2017 // Louisiana residents who had damage from last summer’s widespread flooding have more time to submit the proof of loss form required for a flood insurance claim. The deadline’s been extended until the end of the...
Countless Flooded Autos Leave Car-Dependent Houston Struggling
Sep 11 2017 // Bryan Harvey is frequently reminded that he shares a name with the storm that dumped 50 inches of rain on metropolitan Houston and unleashed the floods that have him working 14-hour days towing water-logged cars. Even in...
Hurricane Harvey: Identifying the Insurance Gap
Sep 11 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. As hurricane Harvey made landfall north of Corpus Christi last week, this Category 4 hurricane left devastation in its wake. CoreLogic® estimates that the total...
Insurers Gain as Shifty, Weakened Irma May Not Be as Damaging as Feared
Sep 11 2017 // Insurers jumped in markets from Europe to Florida amid signs that predictions about Hurricane Irma’s damage were excessively dire. Giant reinsurers like Swiss Re and Munich Re, which shoulder risks for local insurers...
Is Maryland Ready for the Next Big Storm?
Sep 11 2017 // In Maryland, which historically has ducked many of the worst storms of the last 50 years, the question is increasingly not if, but when the next big one will strike. And while some believe the state has often been spared...
Insurers Rush to Find, Deploy Adjusters for Harvey, Irma Claims
Sep 11 2017 // Insurers are scrambling to find inspectors in Texas and Florida after fierce hurricanes battered the states one after the other, causing tens of billions of dollars’ worth of property damage in less than two...
National Flood Insurance Program Extended Until Dec. 8
Sep 11 2017 // President Donald Trump last Friday signed legislation reauthorizing the National Flood Insurance Program until Dec. 8, 2017, which buys more time for Congress to consider reforms of the program. The NFIP was set to expire...
Prospect General Expands Admitted Residential Flood Program into Utah
Sep 11 2017 // Prospect General Insurance Agency has expanded Flood Guard, an admitted residential flood insurance product, into Utah. Flood Guard is an alternative to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Through its rating...
Irma Update: Tropical Storm Exits Florida for Georgia After Flooding Cities, Cutting Utilities
Sep 10 2017 // Downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, Irma flooded several northern Florida cities with heavy rain and a high storm surge on Monday as it headed out of the state after cutting power to millions and ripping roofs...
Rethinking Freight Flood Risk Management After Hurricane Harvey
Sep 8 2017 // A week before Hurricane Harvey walloped Houston, workers for Union Pacific Corp. began moving rail cars out of the railroad’s Englewood switching yard near downtown and brought in enough generators to fill 70 tractor...
Tackling Houston’s Flood-Damaged Cars Takes an Army of Tow Trucks
Sep 8 2017 // How do you remove hundreds of thousands of damaged cars from a massive city still mired in water and muck? Tow-truck driver Alex Toll will tell you: one vehicle at a time. Toll is part of an army of more than 1,000 tow...
New Texas Task Force Formed to Investigate Hurricane-Related Fraud
Sep 8 2017 // Federal prosecutors will lead a new Houston-based group created to help law enforcement agencies respond to an inevitable wave of fraud and other criminal activity set off by Harvey’s punishing rains. Authorities are...
