Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Emerging Risks/Markets Offer New Opportunities: 2017 Predictions, Part 3
Dec 21 2016 // Insurers and reinsurers continue to look for organic growth where they can find it – sometimes from emerging risks and sometimes from emerging markets. As always, the keys to success are market knowledge and...
Vertus Insurance Launches Supplemental Catastrophe Insurance in Florida
Dec 20 2016 // Florida-Based managing general underwriter Vertus Insurance Partners has launched a supplemental insurance policy targeting homeowners in hurricane prone states. Available now in Florida, CAT4Home will provide complete...
North Carolina Lawmakers Approve $200M for Matthew, Fire Relief
Dec 16 2016 // North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday finalized a $201 million hurricane and wildfire relief package sought by Gov. Pat McCrory in a special session he called. The Senate and House unanimously approved the final aid...
Caribbean Cat Facility, CCRIF, Pays Nicaragua $1.1M for Hurricane Otto
Dec 14 2016 // CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) made a payout of US$1.1 million to the government of Nicaragua as a result of damages from Hurricane Otto. Damages triggered a CCRIF payment on the...
Top Florida Stories of 2016: The End of Florida’s Hurricane Drought
Dec 14 2016 // In September, Hurricane Hermine broke Florida’s hurricane drought that had lasted since 2005. The category 1 storm hit the Florida Panhandle, bringing significant storm surge to the Tampa Bay area before slowly...
A Look Back at 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Dec 8 2016 // The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season concluded on Nov. 30 with 15 named storms generating seven hurricanes, three of which were considered major ones, according to the industry’s Insurance Information Institute...
County Farmers in South Carolina Uncertain of Future After Devastating Disasters
Dec 5 2016 // The Double R Farm in South Carolina has produced abundant crops for four generations of Rabon family farmers here, and despite the double whammy of record rains during the October harvest last year and last month’s...
Virginia Flood Damage from Matthew Costliest Since Isabel, Officials Say
Dec 2 2016 // Virginia suffered only a glancing blow from Hurricane Matthew last month when unprecedented amounts of rain fell, but on Wednesday officials estimated flood damage to be hundreds of millions of dollars, making it the...
Citizens Assesses Hurricane Response as 2016 Season Comes to a Close
Dec 1 2016 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation expressed satisfaction with its response efforts to the first hurricanes to hit Florida in more than a decade as the end of the 2016 hurricane season officially ended Nov....
Study Finds Northeastern U.S. Could See Increased Hurricane Activity
Nov 29 2016 // The Northeastern coast of the U.S. could be struck by more frequent and powerful hurricanes in the future due to shifting weather patterns, according to new research presented in a study led by Durham University in the...
Hurricane Cleanup Costs Rise in County Along Georgia’s Coast
Nov 23 2016 // Cleanup costs keep rising in Chatham County, along Georgia’s coast, in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. The latest estimate of the funds needed to recover from damage in unincorporated parts of the county is now more...
Q&A: Deloitte Insurance Expert Discusses Hurricane Season and Flood Insurance
Nov 22 2016 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Although Atlantic hurricane season ends in November, cleanup from any damage seen on the East Coast could last beyond the end of the season. Some coastal areas, such as Virginia Beach, were...
Mississippi Restaurant Building Can be Packed, Moved During Hurricane Threat
Nov 22 2016 // It’s a different concept, a way to build at ground level in a flood zone. And it’s working for a business in Jackson County, Miss. DaBayou Bar & Grill may look thrown together, but there is a lot of...
FEMA Extends Aid Deadline for North Carolina Victims of Hurricane Matthew
Nov 22 2016 // Hurricane Matthew victims in North Carolina have more time to apply for federal disaster assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a news release that it has approved a 31-day extension for applications....
County Farmers in South Carolina Uncertain of Future After Devastating Disasters
Nov 17 2016 // The Double R Farm in South Carolina has produced abundant crops for four generations of Rabon family farmers here, and despite the double whammy of record rains during the October harvest last year and last month’s...
Hurricane Matthew Could Cost US & Caribbean Economies $15B: Aon Benfield
Nov 10 2016 // Hurricane Matthew, which swept through parts of the Caribbean and United States, had total economic losses of up to US$15 billion, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development...
Oklahoma Firm Partnering with NOAA on Hurricane Forecasting, Damage Assessment
Nov 9 2016 // Cherokee Nation Technologies has entered a partnership to support hurricane forecasting and damage assessment. The collaborative effort between Cherokee Nation along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Removal of Hurricane Debris in Savannah, Georgia Could Go Into 2017
Nov 8 2016 // Southeast Georgia residents are still feeling the effects of Hurricane Matthew of debris removal that may last well into next year. The Savannah Morning News reports that city officials in Savannah are asking residents to...
Hurricane Matthew Leaves its Mark on Southeast
Nov 7 2016 // It’s been just over a month since Hurricane Matthew ravaged the Southeast coast but the insurance industry’s job of responding to the devastation and assessing the total cost of damage from the storm is far...
FEMA Extends Deadline for Hurricane Hermine NFIP Claims
Nov 7 2016 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended the deadline for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders to file claims from Hurricane Hermine. “After productive discussions between...
