Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Commissioner Urges Preparation
Sep 2 2010 // With Hurricane Earl on a path to skim the barrier islands and the coast of North Carolina beginning this evening, state Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is reminding all North Carolinians to take precautions before the...
Cedar Rapids Gives Flood-Damaged Homes to Builders, Nonprofits
Sep 2 2010 // City officials are trying to salvage some of the homes damaged by flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2008 by offering them to builders and nonprofit groups for free. In exchange, the homes would be renovated and sold at a...
Slowing Urban Sprawl, Adding Forested Land Curb Flooding: Study
Aug 26 2010 // Controlling urban growth and increasing forested land are the most effective ways to decrease future water runoff and flooding, according to a Purdue University study. Bryan Pijanowski, an associate professor of forestry...
Feds Get Nearly 10,000 Applications for Illinois Flood Aid
Aug 23 2010 // Federal officials have received nearly 10,000 applications for disaster assistance from seven Illinois counties hit by flooding last month. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is urging residents and business owners to...
Tennessee Gov. Predicts Federal Aid for May Flooding
Aug 20 2010 // Gov. Phil Bredesen says Tennessee will receive a higher percentage of federal matching funds to cover costs due to severe flooding in early May. Bredesen recently announced that the state’s federal match will be 90...
Kentucky Coal Companies Sued After Flooding
Aug 20 2010 // A group of eastern Kentucky residents have sued two coal companies, saying improper surface mining and reclamation caused or worsened flooding that destroyed dozens of homes in Pike County last month. The Lexington...
Extreme Weather Seen Unlikely to Help Climate Talks
Aug 17 2010 // Extreme weather in 2010 will spur more strident calls for action to combat global warming but is unlikely to break a deadlock at U.N. climate talks about sharing the burden between rich and poor. Islamabad, for instance,...
North Dakota Flood Project in Hands of Landowners
Aug 16 2010 // Landowners are voting on a proposed $2.7 million flood control project to divert pooling sheet water away from the northeast North Dakota city of Michigan. Officials say the Michigan Spillway project also would relieve...
Des Moines Wants to Buy Flood-Prone Properties
Aug 16 2010 // Officials in Des Moines are looking for money to buy more properties in a flood-prone area of the city. City Manager Rick Clark says that flooding in the Four Mile Creek area is “uncontrolled” — and that...
UN Chief Appeals for Aid in Flood Ravaged Pakistan; U.S. Sends Help
Aug 16 2010 // U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to provide more aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Sunday as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate and new torrents inundated villages. Survivors...
Feds Give Mississippi Increased Flood Aid
Aug 16 2010 // The federal government is affirming it will pay 90 percent of the disaster recovery costs from tornadoes and floods that hit Mississippi in late April and early May. U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran announced the federal share...
Alabama Gets $1 Million Flood Aid
Aug 16 2010 // Alabama will get some $1 million in federal cash for the city of Albertville’s recovery from April’s tornado and storms. U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of...
3 Imaginative Approaches to Agency Marketing in the Entertainment Age
Aug 16 2010 // GEICO, State Farm, Progressive, e-surance and other major insurance marketers currently employ humor in their advertising. There’s GEICO’s prolonged use of the gecko, State Farm’s whyagent.com Web site,...
2010 Education & Training Directory
Aug 16 2010 // Insurance Journal is pleased to publish the 2010 Education and Training Directory. This exclusive resource directory has been designed to help independent agents and brokers find educational and training opportunities to...
3 Imaginative Approaches to Agency Marketing in the Entertainment Age
Aug 16 2010 // Agents Must Employ Creative Insurance Marketing … or Else GEICO, State Farm, Progressive, e-surance and other major insurance marketers currently employ humor in their advertising. There’s GEICO’s...
Weather Experts Discuss Why Insurers, Others Need Better Warning Systems
Aug 13 2010 // Asia’s heavy monsoons, a record heatwave in Russia and severe droughts in Africa show the need for new yardsticks to rate extreme weather to guide everybody from road builders to insurance companies, a U.N. expert...
Flood Program Must Consider Salmon and Whales
Aug 11 2010 // The federal government’s flood insurance program that had mostly been concerned with protecting homes and businesses must now protect salmon and killer whales. Federal fisheries experts have told the Federal...
Pakistan Floods, Russia Heat Fit Climate Trend, Scientists Say
Aug 10 2010 // Devastating floods in Pakistan and Russia’s heatwave match predictions of extremes caused by global warming even though it is impossible to blame mankind for single severe weather events, scientists say. This year is...
New Mexico City Makes Sure Residents Able to Get Insurance
Aug 9 2010 // Farmington, N.M., city councilors have passed an ordinance that will keep residents eligible for flood insurance coverage backed by the federal government. The vote came less than a week after the northwestern New Mexico...
AIG Posts Q2 Loss; Chartis Insurance Stable Despite Flood, Oil Spill Claims
Aug 6 2010 // American International Group Inc. reported a $2.7 billion quarterly loss compared to a net profit of $1.8 billion for the same quarter a year earlier. The second quarter 2010 loss was primarily due to a $3.3 billion...
