Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Idaho Residents Warned About Spring Flood Risk
Feb 27 2008 // The Idaho Department of Insurance is warning homeowners about the potential risk of heavy spring flooding, with accompanying property damage, resulting from the heavy snowfall that areas of the state have already received...
2 Key Katrina Insurance Cases Go Before Louisiana’s Highest Court
Feb 27 2008 // Joseph Sher blamed much of the damage to his New Orleans apartment complex on water that inundated the city when levees failed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He sued Lafayette Insurance Co. after the insurer denied...
Ill. Appeals Federal Decision to Deny Disaster Aid to Flooded Areas
Feb 26 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reviewing an appeal of a decision that floods last month in two eastern Illinois counties weren’t severe enough to merit disaster-area status. FEMA spokesman Aric Schmidt...
Judge: Trapped Miners Can Sue Company, Not 3 Others
Feb 22 2008 // Eight of the nine miners trapped underground in July 2002 when a Pennsylvania mineshaft flooded can continue their suit against the firm that controlled the mine, a judge ruled. Six other miners who narrowly escaped being...
Flood Map Changes Worry Sacramento Officials, Builders
Feb 21 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plans to designate Sacramento’s fast-growing Natomas sector, north of the Sacramento and American rivers, as a Special Flood Hazard Area AE Zone in December is stirring...
U.S. Supreme Court Declines New Orleans Levee Flood Damages Case
Feb 20 2008 // The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case brought by New Orleans property owners who argued their Hurricane Katrina flood damage should be covered despite insurance policy exclusions because the flooding was...
Association of British Insurers: Homes on Flood Sites ‘Unsaleable, Uninsurable, Uninhabitable’
Feb 15 2008 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) warned that government plans to construct new homes on flood plains have not given sufficient consideration of the hazards involved. Justin Jacobs, the ABI’s Assistant...
Experts: Heavy Snowfall Increases Flood Risk in Idaho
Feb 15 2008 // The persistent snows of January and early February have increased the risk of flooding in low-lying areas of north and central Idaho this winter and spring, even while water shortages remain possible this summer in the...
Seal Breaks at Abandoned W.Va. Mine, Floods Yards, Highway
Feb 14 2008 // The earthen seal at a former underground coal mine in Delbarton, W. Va., sprung a leak, sending thousands of gallons of water through the yards of several homes and onto a state highway, officials said Tuesday. The seal...
Ind. to Send Agents Back to School for Flood Coverage Refresher
Feb 14 2008 // This winter’s flooding has prompted state insurance regulators to require a training course for agents selling flood coverage. Those already selling insurance will have to take a continuing-education course of at...
FEMA Extends Flood Insurance Deadline for Wash., Ore.
Feb 14 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended a claims deadline for people in Washington and Oregon who had flood insurance for December damage. The deadline for returning a detailed proof of loss statement has been...
Ill. Officials Accuse FEMA of Miscounting Flooded Homes
Feb 13 2008 // Federal officials were mired in political favoritism and miscounted the number of damaged homes in rejecting two Illinois counties’ applications for disaster relief, local Illinios officials said this week. Leaders...
Government Report Urges Changes in Wind, Flood Damage Determinations
Feb 10 2008 // GAO finds fault with coverage exclusions in policies and lack of data available to assist with FEMA assessments Government adjusters trying to assess the accuracy of flood claims payments from the 2005 hurricane season...
Flood-damaged Southeastern Minn. Receives $77 Million in State Funding
Feb 8 2008 // State officials say southeastern Minnesota has received more than $77 million in state aid to help the area recover from last August’s devastating flooding. The money received so far is part of a $157 million...
Lawmakers Look to Help December Flood Victims
Feb 4 2008 // There’s silence in John Brunoff’s Washington dairy farm, except for the sound of a lone worker hosing an empty 5,000-gallon milk tank. Just nine weeks ago, more than 270 cows filled this organic dairy farm with...
GAO Urges Changes in Wind, Flood Damage Determinations
Feb 1 2008 // Government adjusters trying to assess the accuracy of flood claims payments from the 2005 hurricane season were hampered by a lack of access to data on wind damage from the National Flood Insurance Program and private...
Rebuking Agency, Judge Dismisses Katrina Lawsuit Against Corps
Feb 1 2008 // Saying his hands were tied by law, a federal judge in New Orleans dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, but rebuked the agency for failing to...
Insurers Say Property, Flood Insurance, Regulation Top Concerns in ’08
Feb 1 2008 // A group of insurers says it hopes U.S. lawmakers will continue to focus on the need for affordable property insurance, an optional federal charter for the insurance regulatory system in America, and comprehensive flood...
La.’s Valued Policy Law: New Teeth for Hurricane Claims?
Jan 27 2008 // Property damage from hurricanes primarily comes from two sources: wind and water. Insurance coverage for property damaged by wind, and by rain water which enters the property as a result of wind damage, is generally...
Engineers Warn Flooding is ‘Next Big Disaster’ for California
Jan 27 2008 // While flooding in California’s Central Valley is “the next big disaster waiting to happen,” water-related infrastructure issues confront almost every community across the country, according to engineers...
