Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Illinois Church That Gave Hurricane Aid in ’05, Now Gets Tornado Aid
Mar 5 2012 // Four pickup-and-trailer loads of goods brought over the weekend to tornado-stricken Harrisburg, Ill., are just a partial return for help after Hurricane Rita in 2005, say residents of Lake Arthur, a town of 2,700 in...
Tornado Season Begins. Now What?
Mar 5 2012 // Tornado season usually starts in March and then ramps up for the next couple of months, but it got off to an early and deadly start in late January when two people were killed by separate twisters in Alabama. Preliminary...
4 Execs Cleared in Florida
Mar 5 2012 // Four insurance executives of a now defunct Florida property insurer have been found not guilty of defrauding the state’s reinsurance facility of over $20 million in a case stemming from hurricane losses dating back...
North Carolina Resolves Hurricane Irene Claims
Mar 2 2012 // North Carolina regulators have recovered over $400,000 for policyholders stemming from claims filed in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. At the same time, the regulators are calling for a five year extension in the federal...
Forecasters Unsure What to Expect This Tornado Season
Feb 27 2012 // Tornado season is starting, but don’t ask meteorologists how bad it will be this spring and summer. They don’t know. They’re having a hard enough time getting a fix on the likely path of storms expected...
Tornado Chasers Prepare for High Season
Feb 24 2012 // With the month of March looming, United States tornado chasers are already watching the Southeast as a nasty storm brews with the potential to spin off a batch of tornadoes. But if funnel clouds develop Thursday or Friday...
P/C Industry Disputes Consumer Group’s Claims It’s Avoiding Risk
Feb 17 2012 // Traditionally risk-takers, property/casualty insurance companies have become more like risk-avoiders when it comes to weather-related claims, leaving consumers and taxpayers to pay much higher costs, according to a new...
Last Katrina FEMA Trailer Leaves New Orleans
Feb 17 2012 // The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after floodwalls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the city to fill with floodwaters. The Federal...
4 Executives Found Not Guilty in Florida Hurricane Fund Fraud Case
Feb 17 2012 // Four insurance executives of a now defunct Florida property insurer have been found not guilty of defrauding the state’s reinsurance facility of over $20 million in a case stemming from hurricane losses dating back...
100-Year Storms May Happen Every 3 to 20 Years: MIT-Princeton Research
Feb 15 2012 // Last August, Hurricane Irene spun through the Caribbean and parts of the eastern United States, leaving widespread wreckage in its wake. The Category 3 storm whipped up water levels, generating storm surges that swept over...
New Tool Helps P/C Insurers Manage Volatility of Catastrophe Models
Feb 1 2012 // A new risk management tool promises to help insurance companies understand wide swings in loss estimates from traditional catastrophe models and better plan for large loss events. Karen Clark & Co. (KCC), founded by a...
Maryland High Court Sides With Allstate in Coastal Homeowners Case
Jan 31 2012 // The Maryland Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, ruled in favor of Allstate last week. It upheld a previous lower court’s ruling that the insurer was within its rights to stop writing new homeowners...
Four Northeastern States Get New Federal Emergency Aid From HUD
Jan 23 2012 // New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Jersey are among the eight states nationwide that will share in $400 million in new federal emergency aid announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last...
Texas Ranks Low in Study of Statewide Building Codes
Jan 23 2012 // Neighboring Louisiana Fares Better That Texas was ranked among the bottom three states in a recently released analysis of residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states does not sit well with the...
Texas Ranks Low in Study of Building Codes; Louisiana Fares Better
Jan 20 2012 // That Texas ranked among the bottom three states in a recently released analysis of residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states does not sit well with the state’s insurance regulators. In the...
National Hurricane Center Chief Reed to Retire
Jan 17 2012 // National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read, who took over the forecasting agency during a time of turmoil and leaves it much calmer, announced Saturday he will retire effective June 1. Read, 62, said he never intended to...
Report: Louisiana Homeowners Insurance Rates Rising More Slowly
Jan 16 2012 // Homeowners insurance premiums in Louisiana remain among the nation’s highest, but are rising much more slowly than they did in the first two years after Hurricane Katrina, new data from by the National Association of...
North Carolina Farmers Hurt by Hurricane Irene Eligible for Federal Help
Jan 13 2012 // North Carolina farmers hurt by Hurricane Irene last August and by tornadoes in April can now get more help from the federal government with more loan options and payments to recover from crop losses. State officials...
Aon Benfield 2011 Catastrophe Study: $107 Bn Insured Losses; $435 Bn Economic
Jan 10 2012 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp, has issued its “Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report,” which aggregates and analyses the natural disaster perils that...
More Louisiana Property Owners Move to Private Insurers
Jan 9 2012 // Fresh data shows Louisiana’s insurer of last resort keeps churning away on getting private insurers to pick up policyholders, a problem largely stemming from the 2005 hurricanes. For policyholders of Louisiana...
