A month after Sandy’s floodwaters swept up his block, punched a hole in his foundation and drowned his furnace, John Frawley still has no electricity or heat in his dilapidated home on the Rockaway seashore in Queens, New York. The …
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday imposed emergency regulations on insurers to speed the processing of claims from hundreds of thousands of state residents whose properties were damaged or destroyed when Superstorm Sandy struck a month ago.Among the measures …
New York State Insurance Fund, New York’s largest workers’ compensation and disability benefits carrier, announced Wednesday that it is extending payment deadlines for all policyholders directly affected by Superstorm Sandy. For affected workers’ comp and disability benefits policyholders in 10 …
Residents in Far Rockaway in New York’s Queens borough are now coping with sinkholes in areas that seemed stable before Superstorm Sandy. The city’s Department of Environmental Protection has determined that the holes were caused by damage to private water …
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants huge electrical transformers in commercial buildings hauled to upper floors and wants the ability to shutter key tunnels, airports and subways from floodwaters as part of a $9 billion plan to safeguard New York …
President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration to help 18 counties recover from damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. The declaration announced Tuesday by the White House makes federal funding available to eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit groups …
Georgia’s Attorney General Sam Olens issued a consumer alert notice last week, warning consumers who are in the market for used cars to beware of flood-damaged vehicles in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Attorney General Olens said many previously-flooded vehicles …
Branchville, N.J.-based Selective Insurance Group today said a preliminary pre-tax gross Hurricane Sandy loss would be between $100 to $120 million and a pre-tax net loss of around $52 million, including reinstatement premiums and reinsurance recoveries. About two-thirds of the …
On October 29, 2012, when Hurricane Sandy made landfall along the northeast coast—a year to the day since the last northeastern superstorm and fourteen months since Hurricane Irene — the wind speeds recorded by the National Weather Service indicated the …
The hum of massive mobile generators, boilers and pumps emerges blocks from Manhattan’s Financial District and turns into a steady din south of Wall Street — the now-familiar sound of an area laboring to recover from Superstorm Sandy. Other parts …
