Peerless Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, is helping its 151,000 homeowner insurance customers throughout the northeast protect their families and homes during hurricane season. A six-page Disaster Planning Guide is available to policyholders on the Peerless Insurance Consumer …
Guy Carpenter & Company Inc., a global risk and reinsurance specialist and part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, has published its fourth annual report on the Lloyd’s Market, a comprehensive review of Lloyd’s financial and operational performance in 2006. …
Dallas-based America First Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced it has created a disaster planning guide to help its 8,500 homeowner insurance customers throughout Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas protect their families and homes during hurricane season. A …
The launch of a new National Hurricane Survival Initiative and a new website that answers frequently asked questions about hurricanes and enables consumers to judge their readiness for such an event has been launched by the National Weather Center in …
Southeast residents should be prepared in case a hurricane threatens the U.S. and according to Michael Plavnicky, Montgomery Insurance president and CEO, his company is fully prepared. Montgomery has issued a six-page, full-color “Hurricane Disaster Planning Guide” and at the …
CDS Business Mapping LLC. has added a new Flood Elevation report to its RiskMeter Online (www.RiskMeter.com) service to better understand flood risk for policies that fall outside a flood zone. “After the events of the 2005 hurricane season, many insurers …
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $6.2 million, five-year grant to the Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Studies to develop a new tool that could possibly see the strength of future hurricane seasons. “It’s important …
Homeowners on the coast of Alabama and some other states battered by Gulf of Mexico hurricanes in recent years are better prepared for a major storm than those along the Atlantic coast, an insurance survey found. The survey, sponsored by …
Louisiana homeowners hoping for relief from insurance bills that were boosted by the hurricanes received little help from lawmakers. Legislators lamented, complained and worried about rising insurance costs that could stifle rebuilding efforts after hurricanes Katrina and Rita and that …
Insured homeowners in Eastern and Southern Coastal Texas have, on average, taken roughly 50 percent of the steps to prepare their homes and property to recover from a major hurricane, according to a new Hurricane Readiness Index. Homeowners on the …
