Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Update: Nashville Flood Protection Plan Must be Approved by City Council
Mar 1 2015 // Nashville government officials now say that funding for a proposed $100 million flood protection plan still has to be approved by the city council. Officials discovered last week that the council approved the funding with...
Nashville to Put $100M Flood Protection Plan in Place
Feb 27 2015 // Nashville Mayor Karl Dean has unveiled a $100 million flood protection plan for Music City that includes a 2,100-foot-long flood wall located on the city’s downtown riverfront. “I look at this downtown flood...
2014 Insured Losses Hit Lowest Level in Five Years: Guy Carpenter
Feb 26 2015 // Insured losses in 2014 were at the lowest level seen since 2009, according to Guy Carpenter’s annual Global Catastrophe Review. The report says that significant insured losses in 2014 totaled approximately USD33...
Twice-Wounded Sandy Victims Seek Payout as FEMA Presses Insurers
Feb 25 2015 // Some homeowners hit by Hurricane Sandy say they’ve been victimized twice: first by the storm and later by insurers. John Clancy says his insurer, an Allstate Corp. unit, paid just $46,000 of the more than $200,000 in...
Long Island Engineering Firm Raided in Sandy Investigation
Feb 20 2015 // The New York attorney general’s office executed a search warrant Wednesday at a Long Island engineering firm that has been accused in civil lawsuits of submitting bogus inspection reports on homes damaged by...
FEMA Shows Some Progress Implementing Flood Insurance Changes: GAO
Feb 20 2015 // The agency responsible for managing the federal flood insurance program has made progress in carrying out key changes mandated by Congress in two recent laws but lacks resources and data to completely implement others, a...
Hope for Avoiding ‘Flood Insurance Nightmare’ Lies in Red River Levee Work
Feb 19 2015 // The threat of a flood insurance nightmare in Louisiana’s Rapides Parish and elsewhere was delayed, but not eliminated, by Congress last year. But the threat is slowly diminishing as work proceeds to fix deficiencies...
FEMA in Talks to Settle Sandy Flood Insurance Claims
Feb 19 2015 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is working to settle lawsuits by hundreds of Hurricane Sandy victims who challenged denials or alleged underpayments of flood insurance claims. Brad Kieserman, deputy associate...
Federal Judge Dismisses Louisiana Levee Board’s Suit against Oil Companies
Feb 16 2015 // A federal judge has dismissed a New Orleans-area levee authority’s lawsuit charging oil and gas companies with destroying Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. The lawsuit was filed by the Southeast Louisiana Flood...
Insurer Hit With $4.5M Class Action Bad Faith Verdict in Nevada
Feb 13 2015 // Everest Indemnity Insurance Co. was hit with a $4.5 million verdict after a Nevada state court jury on Thursday said the insurer acted in bad faith by refusing to cover a construction company’s defense costs in a...
Detroit Suburb Receives $5M Insurance Payment for Flood Damage
Feb 12 2015 // A Detroit suburb has received a $5 million insurance payment to help the city bounce back from damage caused by flooding in August. Torrential rain and flooding on Aug. 11 damaged city property at the Warren Community...
UK’s Flood Re Appoints Capita as Managing Agent
Feb 12 2015 // The UK’s Flood Re has announced the appointment of Capita as its Managing Agent, following what it described as a “detailed and rigorous public procurement process for a five year contract that led to a number...
Louisiana Senator Accuses President of ‘Meddling’ with Floodplain Standards
Feb 9 2015 // U.S. Sen. David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana, says a climate action plan set forth by President Barak Obama would drastically change floodplain maps and result in increased flood insurance rates. Vitter is chairman...
UK Climate Agency Faults Flood Re’s Costs as ‘Higher than Necessary’
Feb 5 2015 // In a letter to Brendan McCafferty, the Chief Executive of the UK’s recently established flood insurance program, Subcommittee Chairman, Prof. Lord Krebs, wrote that the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC)...
Army Corps Releases Northeast Coastal Flood Risk Management Framework
Jan 30 2015 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday issued a report saying that managing the flooding risk along the North Atlantic coast from events like Superstorm Sandy is something that has to be done collaboratively by all...
AIR Worldwide Reports on This Week’s Northeast Blizzard
Jan 29 2015 // A blizzard in the Northeast this week primarily impacted eastern Long Island in New York, southeastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod and the islands, New Hampshire, and Maine, with record...
Sandy Flood Insurance Issues Said to Be Focus of Criminal Probe
Jan 25 2015 // New York’s attorney general has opened a criminal probe into accusations by Hurricane Sandy victims that insurance companies rejected claims for flood damage to their properties based on falsified engineering...
FEMA Agrees to Fargo, North Dakota, Flood Insurance Basement Exemption
Jan 25 2015 // Fargo, N.D’s acting mayor says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has moved to continue to allow homeowners to have basements in the city’s new floodplain. FEMA is responsible for the National Home...
ABI Launches Campaign for ‘Flood Free’ Homes
Jan 21 2015 // the Association of British Insurers announced that it has launched a campaign for Flood Free Homes, “supported by Friends of the Earth, Know Your Flood Risk, National Flood Forum, and the Property Care...
Lowest Insured Losses since 2009: Impact Forecasting Climate and Cat Report
Jan 13 2015 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has released its Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide...
