Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
South Carolina Insurers to Weather At Least $181M in Claims from October Storm
Dec 8 2015 // A pickup truck rests against the side of Gills Creek near a bridge in Columbia, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. Days of torrential rains kept much of South Carolina and its capital gripped by floodwaters early Monday. (AP...
India Floods Top Aon Benfield/Impact Forecasting’s November Cat Recap
Dec 8 2015 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has issued the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of natural disaster events that occurred...
PwC UK Raises Desmond Insured Loss Estimates: $375 to $487.5 Million
Dec 8 2015 // Commenting on the impact of Storm Desmond, Mohammad Khan, general insurance leader at PwC UK, stated that the accounting firm’s “current estimate of the damage caused by Storm Desmond is £400 million –...
Insurers Braced for Claims Surge as 10-Year High Floods Hit India
Dec 8 2015 // Insurers from Lombard General Insurance Co. to American International Group Inc. are bracing for a surge in Indian claims to a 10-year high after unprecedented floods last week ravaged Chennai, the city home to factories...
Insurance Lies Clients Believe – And Pass on to Others
Dec 7 2015 // Myths, legends and lies are hard to dispel and correct, especially when doing so appears to financially harm the teller or believer. If the myth is true, the client (the teller/believer) does not need to purchase the...
British Insurers Adjust Risk Models after Costly Repeat of 100-Year Floods
Dec 7 2015 // British insurers could have to pay out up to £250 million ($377 million) in claims to owners of homes and businesses, industry specialists said on Monday, after the northwest of England suffered once-in-a-century floods...
UK Insurers Ready to Aid Recovery from Storm Desmond ABI Assures Policyholders
Dec 7 2015 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has issued a bulletin reassuring homeowners and businesses hit by Storm Desmond that insurers “are doing everything possible to help them recover.” The ABI listed some...
Report: Southeast States Not Prepared for Future Risks from Climate Change
Dec 7 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
Business Losses in India’s Flood-Ravaged Chennai Could Top $2.2 Billion
Dec 3 2015 // As the flood-ravaged Indian city of Chennai prayed for respite from torrential rains, a trade body said losses to businesses from the record downpour could reach more than 150 billion rupees ($2.2 billion).* Water...
South Carolina Flood Aid Deadline Extended
Dec 1 2015 // South Carolina residents who suffered damage in October’s massive floods will have an extra month to request federal help. Gov. Nikki Haley’s office announced in a statement Monday that the deadline to apply...
Weather-Related Disasters Occurred Almost Daily in Past Decade: U.N. Report
Nov 24 2015 // Weather related disasters such as floods and heatwaves have occurred almost daily in the past decade, almost twice as often as two decades ago, with Asia being the hardest hit region, a U.N. report said on Monday. While...
South Carolina’s Agricultural Flood Loss Estimate Reaches $587M
Nov 22 2015 // The farms and playground area for picking pumpkins are swamped in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. South Carolina is still struggling with floodwaters due to a slow moving storm system. (AP Photo/Mic Smith) South...
States Graded ‘A’ to ‘F’ for Extreme Weather Preparedness
Nov 20 2015 // Many states across the country are unprepared to face the risks posed extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to a new report card. Only a small...
South Carolina Lakefront Property Owners Without a Lake After Floods
Nov 20 2015 // South Carolina homeowners living around lakes where dams failed in the historic flooding face uncertainty about when their properties will be waterfront again. The State newspaper reported that rebuilding dams will cost...
Bettendorf, Iowa, Seeks Funds for Buyout of Homes in Flood Zones
Nov 19 2015 // Bettendorf, Iowa, officials are seeking federal funding that would allow the city to buy and demolish homes in flood zones. The Quad-City Times reports Bettendorf City Planner John Soenksen presented the plan to apply for...
Report: Texas Failing in Assessing, Preparing for Climate Threats
Nov 18 2015 // Texas is failing in assessing and preparing for environmental threats posed by climate change, according to a new report. A recently released study by Climate Central and ICF International, States At Risk: America’s...
Gov. Haley Establishes South Carolina Flood Relief Fund
Nov 17 2015 // South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called on people across the nation Monday to contribute to the One SC relief fund to rebuild homes following last month’s historic flooding, saying it can do what the government...
Flood Warnings in Effect for Rising South Carolina Coastal Rivers
Nov 17 2015 // Forecasters are warning of rising river levels near the South Carolina coast. The National Weather Service said a flood warning is still in effect for the Santee River near Jamestown in Berkeley County. At 6 p.m. Sunday...
Storm Barney to Raise Flood Risk & Damaging Winds Across UK
Nov 17 2015 // Barney, the second storm to be named by the U.K. Met Office this season, was expected to bring additional rain and damaging winds to the United Kingdom, according to a report issued by AccuWeather. “Barney will be a...
El Nin᷈o Talk Growing Louder Amid Southern California Storms
Nov 16 2015 // A whopper of a winter appears to be brewing for the Western U.S. and more conversations are turning to preparations for what could be one of the strongest El Nin᷈os on record. Strong rains throughout much of California...
