Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wind Claims from Hurricane Isaac Only Part of the Story
Sep 10 2012 // Insurance claims from Hurricane Isaac, which made landfall in far Southeast Louisiana on Aug. 28, could climb to $1.2 billion, according to one catastrophe modeling firm. AIR Worldwide estimated losses at $1.2 billion, but...
Analysis: Florida’s Insurers, Reinsurance and Catastrophic Storms
Sep 10 2012 // Since 1996, Demotech has rated most of the homegrown Florida domiciled insurers. Our efforts have focused on the assignment of Financial Stability Ratings® (FSRs) to all financially stable insurers, start-ups as well as...
Texas DA Investigating State Farm Hurricane Claims
Sep 9 2012 // Texas investigators have opened a criminal probe into how State Farm handled what may turn out to be thousands of insurance claims from Gulf Coast homeowners involving damage from Hurricane Ike in 2008, officials...
Criminal Investigation Launched Over Hurricane Ike Claim
Sep 7 2012 // Texas homeowner Jim Warner has been locked in a legal battle with State Farm over denial of insurance claims for the damages to his home from Hurricane Ike. That battle was just upgraded to a category five by the Travis...
Aon Benfield August Cat Report Focuses on Isaac; Insurance Cover Disparity
Sep 7 2012 // Aon Benfield’s latest edition of its Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during August, notes that Hurricane Isaac was “the first land falling...
Commentary: World Economy Entering Into Financial Hurricane Season
Sep 7 2012 // The North Atlantic hurricane season runs from mid-August to October, with a strong peak in storm activity around the middle of September. A less familiar but even more destructive pattern of disturbances is the financial...
Hurricane Leslie Moving Slowly Towards Bermuda; Michael is 1st Cat 3 Storm
Sep 6 2012 // Leslie has become a category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, 120 km/h. A gradual strengthening is forecast over the next 48 hours. The latest bulletin, posted at 5:00 a.m....
Emergency Insurance Rule for Policyholders in Effect in Louisiana
Sep 6 2012 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has issued an emergency rule which allows greater protection and flexibility for policyholders impacted by Hurricane Isaac. The emergency rule is similar in scope to the rules...
Thousands File Flood Insurance Claims After Isaac
Sep 5 2012 // Thousands of flood insurance claims are being filed in the wake of Hurricane Isaac, a slow-moving storm that hammered several parishes in southern Louisiana with prolonged, drenching rains and tropical-storm force winds,...
Katrina’s Lessons in Mississippi May Have Saved Lives in Hurricane Isaac
Sep 5 2012 // For all the lives it took when it plowed across the Gulf Coast in 2005, Hurricane Katrina may have saved some during Isaac. Officials took lessons from Katrina and applied them to their emergency plans. Storm shelters that...
Another Disaster Brings Candidates to Gulf Coast
Sep 4 2012 // Mitt Romney wasted no time after accepting the GOP presidential nomination in heading to Louisiana to see the damage from Hurricane Isaac, changing his schedule on the fly to get there the very next day. President Barack...
Insurers Processing Estimated $1.2 Billion in Hurricane Isaac Claims
Sep 3 2012 // Insurance claims from Hurricane Isaac have starting coming in, with one estimate saying losses to insurers could total $1.2 billion. AIR Worldwide, which models losses for insurers, said its best estimate of losses was...
Thousands Evacuated as Isaac Floods Outside New Orleans
Aug 31 2012 // Isaac continued to pour unrelenting rain on Aug. 30, flooding areas north and south of New Orleans even as the city’s fortified defenses held and forcing officials to launch speedy evacuation and rescue efforts in...
U.S. Insured Losses from Hurricane Isaac Could Reach $2B: AIR
Aug 31 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that insured losses from Hurricane Isaac to onshore properties in the U.S. will be between $700 million and $2 billion. AIR estimates include wind and storm surge damage to...
Isaac Brings Relief to U.S. Drought Conditions
Aug 31 2012 // The remnants of Hurricane Isaac continue to cause headaches on Friday, bringing heavy rainfall and the threat of flash flooding to the lower Mississippi Valley as Gulf Coast residents get ready to start their cleanup...
Hurricane Kirk in Mid-Atlantic; TS Leslie May Hit Bermuda: NHC Reports
Aug 31 2012 // Two tropical cyclones – Hurricane Kirk and Tropical Storm Leslie – are currently active in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center in Miami is tracking both of them, as well as the remnants of...
Willis Research Sees Fewer, but Stronger, Hurricanes in Future Years
Aug 31 2012 // New research from the Willis Research Network (WRN) addresses scientific forecasts that “global warming is likely to lead to stronger tropical cyclones, but also that the overall global frequency of tropical storms...
Florida Governor Opens Disaster Fund
Aug 30 2012 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has announced that the state is activating Florida’s disaster fund to help residents who suffered property losses from Hurricane Isaac and Tropical Storm Debbie. Earlier this week, Hurricane...
Isaac Heads North After Drenching U.S. Gulf, New Orleans
Aug 30 2012 // Tropical storm Isaac is expected to weaken further as it heads north on Thursday, after causing significant damage to the U.S. Gulf Coast but nothing on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in...
Citizens Advised to ‘Hunker Down’ as Isaac Pounds Louisiana
Aug 29 2012 // “Stay hunkered down.” That’s the message local, state and federal officials are telling the people of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana in response to a lingering Hurricane Isaac, now Tropical Storm...
