Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FEMA: La. Sees Drop in New Flood Policies
Jul 31 2007 // A large number of people who bought flood insurance after the devastating 2005 hurricane season have not renewed their policies, according to Federal Emergency Management Agency figures. About 100,000 new flood insurance...
Okla. Leads Nation in Disaster Declarations
Jul 30 2007 // A combination of ice storms, flooding rains and tornadoes have left Oklahoma atop a dubious list. So far this year, the state has most federal disaster declarations in the country. Oklahoma has received two declarations...
RMS: U.K. Summer Floods Could Cost Insurers £2.25 Billion
Jul 30 2007 // The June and July floods that gripped parts of the U.K. could cost insurers between £2.25 billion and £3.25 billion in total, according to latest estimates by Risk Management Solutions (RMS). Insured losses from the July...
Insurers Balk as House Panel Votes to Add Wind Coverage to Flood Program
Jul 27 2007 // Private insurance companies are balking at a decision by a key House panel to expand the federal flood insurance program to include wind coverage. The House Financial Services Committee voted yesterday to add wind coverage...
RMS: Current UK Floods not as Costly as Those in 1947
Jul 24 2007 // Despite the widespread devastation caused by this summer’s UK floods, the damage is not yet as costly as the March 1947 floods, which would have resulted in insured losses of £4.5 to £6 billion if it reoccurred...
Some Miss. Coast Homeowners Won’t Have to Repay Grant
Jul 24 2007 // Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must...
Of wind and floods
Jul 23 2007 // Is there a place for windstorm coverage in the National Flood Insurance Program? Not according to three major trade groups representing insurance companies — they have officially taken a stand against proposals to...
Guy Carpenter Readies Revised London Flood Model
Jul 23 2007 // Guy Carpenter Developing New London Flood Model for Insurers Model Will Provide the Most Accurate Solution Available To Insurers for London Flooding Global insurance and risk specialist Guy Carpenter & Co., LLC,...
Of wind and floods
Jul 23 2007 // Is there a place for windstorm coverage in the National Flood Insurance Program? Not according to three major trade groups representing insurance companies — they have officially taken a stand against proposals to...
News Currents
Jul 23 2007 // N.C. braces for flood insurance rate surge under new building code Thousands of coastal North Carolina residents could see insurance rates surge this fall as state regulators weigh higher insurance costs against the rising...
Editor’s Note: Of wind and floods
Jul 23 2007 // Is there a place for windstorm coverage in the National Flood Insurance Program? Not according to three major trade groups representing insurance companies — they have officially taken a stand against proposals to...
South Texas counties at odds with FEMA over maps
Jul 23 2007 // Hidalgo County, Texas, officials are moving to block the release of an updated Rio Grande flood plain map that would force property owners to buy flood insurance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to release...
Editor’s Note: Of wind and floods
Jul 23 2007 // Whether or not H.R. 920 is successfully passed, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the federal government is taking notice of the problems certain areas of the country face with regard to windstorm insurance. Is...
Other Mississippians Upset Because they Bothered ‘To Be Responsible’
Jul 20 2007 // Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must...
Nearly 18K in La. Interested in Buying FEMA Trailers, Mobile Homes
Jul 17 2007 // Nearly 18,000 occupants of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) travel trailers and mobile homes in Louisiana have shown interested in purchasing their units, the agency has reported. In an effort to help displaced...
Few Kan. Residents Covered by Flood Insurance
Jul 16 2007 // While his flooded neighbors faced an uncertain future, homeowner Bob Foust was already well under way this week repairing the water damage to his house upstream of the refinery’s oil spill. Not only did his house...
Heavy Rains Flood Central Vermont
Jul 13 2007 // Torrential rains pelted central Vermont on Wednesday, triggering flash flooding that washed out roads and inundated the city of Barre, where water ran up to 6 feet deep for a time. Between 3 and 4 inches fell in the area...
FEMA Officials Plan to Survey Flood Damage in Okla.
Jul 12 2007 // Federal officials plan to survey damage and talk to residents this week in flood-ravaged neighborhoods in Bartlesville and Dewey, Okla., where more than 3,000 people were displaced when the Caney River flooded its banks...
Report Shows Mix of Decisions Resulted in Failed New Orleans Levees
Jul 12 2007 // There was no single decision made involving the New Orleans hurricane-protection levee system that shaped its failure to defend the area from flooding resulting from Hurricane Katrina, according to a comprehensive study of...
Judge in La. Won’t Force Prosecutor to Enter Katrina Whisteblower Case
Jul 11 2007 // A federal judge in New Orleans on June 9 withdrew an order challenging U.S. Attorney David Dugas for not intervening in a whistleblowers’ lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government...
