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More Small Blasts from Hawaii Volcano
Jun 12 2018 // Small explosions at the summit of an erupting Hawaii volcano could send ash into communities. Scientists say the blasts happened Monday, including one after a magnitude-5.4 earthquake. Ash expelled from the Kilauea volcano...
Weather Services Confirms Wyoming Tornado
Jun 12 2018 // A tornado that tore across the prairie was about as big as they get in Wyoming. The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado in a rural part of the state, and estimates the twister’s winds reached 150 mph and its...
Small Earthquake Triggered by Minor KIlauea Explosion
Jun 11 2018 // A small explosion on the summit of Kilauea volcano has triggered an earthquake but there are no reports of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 5.2 earthquake happened around 4:50 a.m. Saturday on the Big...
Property MGA EPUL Offers Online Terrorism Cover as Pool Re Alternative in UK
Jun 11 2018 // European Property Underwriting Ltd. (EPUL), the London-based commercial property managing general agent (MGA), has launched a flexible UK and Northern Ireland terrorism solution offering cost-effective cover as an...
XL Catlin Launches Auto Terror Protect Coverage for Vehicle Terrorist Attacks
Jun 8 2018 // XL Catlin’s has launched a new insurance product for companies with fleets of vehicles which could be used as a weapon in a terrorist attack. According to Mark Steddon, senior underwriter, Terrorism & Political...
May 2018 Saw Severe Weather in Nearly Every Global Region: Aon Report
Jun 8 2018 // Four separate severe weather outbreaks swept across the United States during the month of May, which led to extensive hail, wind damage and flash flooding, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe...
Study Finds Possible Deep, Unmapped Faults in Oklahoma
Jun 7 2018 // Scientists may have found previously unmapped faults in Oklahoma that could be contributing to a sharp increase in induced earthquakes in the state, according to a report on a study that used magnetic imaging to explore...
Hailstorm Pounds Dallas/Fort Worth Region Overnight
Jun 6 2018 // Just after midnight, strong storms packing hail as large as baseballs caused extensive damage to homes and vehicles in the cities of Carrolton and Coppell, north of Dallas. Residents are reporting vehicles with windshields...
Guatemalans Mourn as Volcano’s Death Toll Rises
Jun 6 2018 // People of the villages skirting Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire have begun mourning the few dead who could be identified after an eruption killed dozens by engulfing them in floods of searing ash and mud. Mourners cried...
Hawaii Volcano Lava Destroys 117 Homes on Big Island
Jun 6 2018 // Lava from Hawaii’s erupting Kilauea volcano has destroyed more than 100 homes in a rural Big Island district. As of Monday, lava burned down 117 homes, said Hawaii County spokeswoman Janet Snyder. On Friday, the...
Lloyd’s Index Shows $92B at Risk in North American Cities Each Year
Jun 6 2018 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Cities in the U.S. and Canada stand to lose $92.96 billion per year to risks like market crash, cyber attack and flood, an index from Lloyd’s released today shows. Lloyd’s newly...
The Hidden Force of a Hurricane (Infographic)
Jun 5 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Download and share this infographic here. To read more about the places at risk, read the CoreLogic 2018 Storm Surge Report.
Houston Still Rebuilding From Last Year’s Floods as 2018 Hurricane Season Arrives
Jun 4 2018 // In an empty lot where Vincent Shields’ Houston home once stood, he points out properties whose owners were driven out after Hurricane Harvey inundated the region last summer. “On this street there’s...
California Legislators Said to Consider Wildfire Relief Fund to Help Utilities
Jun 4 2018 // California lawmakers are said to be considering a proposal to help utilities shoulder billions of dollars in potential liability costs while offering relief to wildfire victims by setting up a compensation fund that would...
Florida Officials Enact Few Changes for 2018 Hurricane Season
Jun 4 2018 // Florida’s governor and Legislature promised a dizzying array of fixes following the devastation of last year’s hurricanes. But heading into a new storm season, the state has enacted only a few changes – the...
Caribbean Insurers Well-Capitalized Despite 2017 Hurricane Losses: A.M. Best
Jun 1 2018 // An analysis of A.M. Best-rated property/casualty insurers based in the Caribbean reveals that hurricanes Irma and Maria were mainly earnings events, and that the responsiveness of reinsurers allowed these insurers to...
Canada’s May Windstorm Insured Damage Tops $410 Million
Jun 1 2018 // April showers bring May flowers but in Ontario, the last few months brought a series of severe, and unique, weather events. Insured damage from an early-May windstorm affecting Ontario and parts of Quebec topped $410...
Researchers Cool Their 2018 Hurricane Season Forecast
Jun 1 2018 // Subtropical Storm Alberto kicked off the Atlantic hurricane season a week early, but don’t take that as a harbinger of terrible weather. In fact, cooler ocean temperatures are already spurring researchers to scale...
Cities Still Owed Funds from Last Hurricane Season as New Season Gets Underway
Jun 1 2018 // Allen Owen, the mayor of Missouri City, Texas, wants to do more to protect his town from the next disaster. But the city hasn’t gotten any of the roughly $1 million in federal disaster funds he said it’s owed...
What the Florida Industry Needs to Know for the 2018 Hurricane Season
Jun 1 2018 // The 2018 hurricane season is officially underway, even as the dust continues to settle on the 2017 hurricane season — one of the costliest hurricane years on record — that brought devastation to Florida from Hurricane...
