Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aon Report on Thai Floods Highlights ‘Extreme Human Suffering,’ Economic Loss’
Oct 31 2011 // Aon Benfield has published a highly detailed report on the ongoing floods in Thailand, from their meteorological beginnings – extremely heavy monsoon rains – to the widespread damage they have inflicted on one of East...
Feds Make Slow Progress on Flood Levee Inventory
Oct 31 2011 // More than six years after Hurricane Katrina’s rampage, authorities have taken only halting steps toward identifying weaknesses in a nationwide patchwork of levees intended to protect millions of Americans’...
Cuomo: More State Aid for Flood-damaged New York Farms
Oct 28 2011 // The Cuomo administration is distributing an additional $850,000 in aid for more than 100 New York farms impacted by flooding caused by tropical storms Irene and Lee. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, Oct. 25, announced that...
Thai Floods Batter Global Electronics, Auto Supply Chains
Oct 28 2011 // Manufacturers of car parts and computer hard drives are the worst hit in Thailand, and face a bleak key holiday selling season due to massive floods, which have shut down production. Japanese car makers that had just...
ABI Assures UK Flood Victims Insurers Ready to Help
Oct 27 2011 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has issued a bulletin advising “anyone who has suffered flood damage as a result of the heavy rain that has so far hit Northern Ireland, Wales and south-west England to...
AIR Reports on Heavy Rains, Floods in Ireland, Southwest England, Wales
Oct 27 2011 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has issued a bulletin on the “torrential rainfall” that has “caused widespread disruption and damage on both sides of the Irish Sea.” The Dublin area has been...
New York Team to Assess Recovery in Flooded Communities
Oct 25 2011 // As frustration has built in flood-ravaged upstate New York towns nearly two months after back-to-back tropical storms, Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy is visiting the sites to assess progress. Despite state and federal...
Japan Offers Help to Companies Hit by Thai Floods
Oct 25 2011 // Japan has offered extra loans, insurance and a baht cash line to help Japanese companies in flood-ravaged Thailand, signaling growing concerns over the disaster’s impact on the world’s third biggest...
Bangkok Braces for Floods; Deaths, Economic Toll Rise
Oct 21 2011 // Thailand battled to protect the capital Bangkok from being swamped by water on Friday, with canals full to the brim after devastating floods across the region that sources in neighbouring Myanmar said had killed at least...
Senators Oppose Flood Insurance Requirement on Properties Near Levees
Oct 19 2011 // Two senators are pressing to remove a federal requirement that homeowners and businesses near levees and dams purchase flood insurance. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) have launched an effort to...
Flood Damage Underestimated; Better Risk Prevention Needed: Allianz
Oct 19 2011 // Floods are the most commonly occurring natural catastrophes in the world and insurance companies are using science to better predict risks, yet most people underestimate flooding’s destructive power, German insurer...
Drought, Flooding Cause Hard Times for Farmers in Arkansas, Louisiana
Oct 18 2011 // In a year when severe drought scorched the Southwest, a hurricane drowned crops in the East, and river flooding swamped farms in the Midwest, one of the worst places to be a farmer may be just west of the Mississippi...
Bermuda Re/Insurers Announce Q3 Cat Loss Estimates
Oct 17 2011 // A number of Bermuda-based re/insurers have announced their respective loss estimates for the third quarter of 2011. The figures given include loss adjustment expenses, and are net of any applicable reinsurance recoveries,...
Thailand: Bangkok Escape Floods as Waters Recede
Oct 17 2011 // The government expressed confidence Sunday that Bangkok will escape Thailand’s worst flooding in decades, as the capital’s elaborate barriers held strong and floodwaters receded from submerged plains to the...
Federal Flood Insurance Program Extended Until Nov. 18
Oct 17 2011 // The U.S. House of Representatives in early October passed legislation that keeps the federal flood insurance program running until Nov. 18, 2011. The House voted 352-66 to extend the National Flood Insurance Program...
Dramatize Your Agency’s Flood Insurance Promotions
Oct 17 2011 // Use ‘Flooded Photos’ to Creatively Market Flood Policies No matter what we mere humans do, nature does whatever she wants, whenever she wants. All we can do is pick up the pieces and rebuild from the...
Kentucky Mining Company Sued Over Flooding Death, Damage
Oct 14 2011 // A lawsuit filed by residents in southeastern Kentucky blames a mining company’s surface mining practices for stoking a flood that killed a man and damaged homes in Knox County this summer. The suit against Nally...
AIR Estimates Insured Losses from Hurricane Jova at Less than $52 Million
Oct 14 2011 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, estimates that insured losses caused by Hurricane Jova from flood-induced damage, as well as from some isolated wind damage along Mexico’s southern coastal areas, will be...
AIR Analyzes Jova Damages
Oct 13 2011 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide’s Dr. Tim Doggett, even though hurricane Jova has weakened to a tropical depression, it’s still capable of causing further damage. “Jova’s slow...
UPDATE: Hurricane Jova Hits Mexican Port; Kills Four; Mudslides in Central America
Oct 13 2011 // Hurricane Jova flooded the streets of Mexico’s main Pacific port with torrential rain Wednesday, inundating popular beach resorts and killing at least four people in mudslides. While Jova ravaged the coast, a...
