Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Commissioner Urges Floridians to Buy Flood Insurance
May 15 2006 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has urged Floridians to purchase flood insurance to protect their homes. McCarty’s warning comes on the eve of the 2006 hurricane season which officially begins June...
Rains, Floods Place Southern New England In State Of Emergency
May 15 2006 // More than five straight days of rain have flooded homes, businesses and roads, swelled riverbanks and placed a number of dams in southern New England under strain. The governors of Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire...
Texas Regulators Urge Coastal Residents to Review Insurance Coverages
May 12 2006 // As hurricane season approaches, officials at the Texas Department of Insurance are reminding all Gulf Coast home and business owners that it is important to periodically review their insurance policies to ensure that...
TDI Offers Tips for Storm Season
May 9 2006 // As the recent severe storms across Texas have shown, a disaster can occur in any part of the state and often with little or no warning. Insurance offers financial protection against damage from natural disasters, but you...
Hood’s comments called ‘hysterical, irresponsible’
May 8 2006 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s recent comments comparing the insurance industry to “Nazis” have been met with industry criticism. Among those responding was Charles M. Chamness, National...
Hood’s comments called ‘hysterical, irresponsible’
May 8 2006 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s recent comments comparing the insurance industry to “Nazis” have been met with industry criticism. Among those responding was Charles M. Chamness, National...
Agents’ Group Answers Nine Questions About Poe Financial, Its Subsidiaries
May 5 2006 // Nine questions and answers about the receivership and status of Poe Financial Corp.’s subsidiaries Southern Family and Atlantic Preferred have been provided to Professional Insurance Agents of Florida members who...
Hawaii Declared as Disaster Zone
May 5 2006 // President Bush cleared Hawaii for millions of dollars in disaster relief from damages caused by flooding and heavy rains. Bush signed an emergency disaster declaration Tuesday that qualifies residents on Kauai and Oahu for...
Flood Insurance Class Slated May 17 by Dade County, Fla. Big ‘I’
May 3 2006 // “The Reality of Flood Insurance,” a three-hour continuing education course, will be presented by Shawn Tinsley during a three-hour continuing education curse sponsored on May 17 by the Independent Insurance...
Judges Step Aside From Jefferson Parish, La., Flood Suits
May 3 2006 // All 16 state district judges in Jefferson Parish, La., have disqualified themselves from hearing class-action lawsuits filed by property owners who blame parish government for post-Hurricane Katrina flooding that damaged...
Chesapeake Bay Warning: Storm Surges Could Top Isabel’s in 2003
May 2 2006 // New computer simulations by government scientists show that hurricane storm surges in the Chesapeake Bay could get dramatically worse than the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Isabel in 2003. Under some conditions, the...
La. Commissioner Launches Storm Awareness Tour in Lake Charles
May 1 2006 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon will kick off a statewide storm awareness tour in Lake Charles on May 2. His visit will include a trip to areas hit hard by...
Dale Urges Miss. Coast Residents: Buy Flood Insurance
Apr 28 2006 // As another hurricane season fast approaches, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale is encouraging Mississippi Gulf Coast residents to buy flood insurance with a simple message, it’s a bargain considering the...
La. Recovery Authority Sheds Income Limits in Housing Plan
Apr 28 2006 // Lawmakers in Louisiana next week are expected to vote on Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s $7.5 billion housing plans, after several provisions were altered to make the post-hurricane rebuilding and buyout program more...
N.D. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in 2000 Flood Damage Dispute
Apr 27 2006 // The North Dakota state Supreme Court is considering whether the city of Fargo should pay North Dakota State University $3 million for damage to campus buildings and equipment caused by heavy rain in 2000. The city is...
Revised La. Lawsuit Cites ‘Incompetence’ of Federal Government, U.S. Corps of Engineers
Apr 20 2006 // Plaintiffs seeking more than $1 billion in damages in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are calling the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet a “Hurricane Highway” that allowed a 20-foot storm surge to inundate much...
Insurer Group Calls Miss. AG’s Comments ‘Hysterical, Irresponsible’
Apr 18 2006 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s recent comments comparing the insurance industry to Nazis are “hysterical and irresponsible,” claims an insurance trade group leader. “Now that Hood’s...
Danube Floods SE Europe
Apr 17 2006 // The river Danube, which wends its way through much of Central and Southeastern Europe, has reached its highest level since 1895 in many places. Flooding in Serbia/Montenegro, Bulgaria and Romania has inundated towns,...
Dade County Agents Sponsoring Flood Insurance Course
Apr 17 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Dade County will sponsor a three-hour continuing education course on “The Reality of Flood Insurance,” May 17 at the Sheraton Miami Mart Hotel in Miami. Instructor Shawn...
Judge rejects Allstate request to dismiss hurricane lawsuit
Apr 17 2006 // The company (Allstate) “is pleased that the judge ruled, ‘The exclusions found in the policy for water damage and for damages attributable to flooding are valid and enforceable policy provisions,'”...
