Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Waterloo, Iowa, to Receive $7M Grant for Flood Control
Aug 6 2010 // The U.S. Department of Commerce is providing Waterloo, Iowa, with a $7 million grant for flood control efforts. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, D-Iowa, announced the Economic Development Administration grant on Aug. 3....
July’s Catastrophes Cause Widespread Losses Globally: Aon Benfield
Aug 3 2010 // Floods in Pakistan and China have taken thousands of lives and damaged hundreds of thousands of homes, according to a new report on catastrophic events in July by a reinsurance team. A European heatwave, wildfires in...
Army Corps Claims Actions Reduced Tennessee Flooding in May
Aug 2 2010 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has concluded its actions during the May floods reduced the Cumberland River’s flood crest in Nashville by 5 feet, but the agency suffered numerous communications problems during the...
The Economy and the Homeowners Market
Aug 2 2010 // How the Economy Turned Optional Coverages into Mandatory Enhancements Offering comprehensive homeowners coverage in today’s insurance market is not only good business, but a necessity. Insuring the property for full...
Connecticut Flood Victims Facing Deadline Today
Jul 27 2010 // Connecticut residents are running out of time to file federal damage claims from the March flooding that affected the eastern half of the state. Anyone with property damage has until today to file with the Federal...
Wisconsin Flood Damage Exceeds $28.5 Million
Jul 27 2010 // Damage from last week’s flooding in Milwaukee County, Wis., now exceeds more than $28.5 million, according to Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. He reported that 6,368 residential homes in Milwaukee County sustained damage...
Army Corps Report Claims Actions Reduced Tennessee Flooding
Jul 23 2010 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has concluded its actions during the May floods reduced the Cumberland River’s flood crest in Nashville by 5 feet, but the agency suffered numerous communications problems during the...
Typhoon Chanthu Hits South China – AIR Report
Jul 23 2010 // According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Typhoon Chanthu slammed into southern China near Wuchuan City in Guangdong Province on Thursday, “further drenching a region already inundated by a month of...
Obama Opposes Adding Wind Coverage to Federal Flood Insurance
Jul 22 2010 // The Obama Administration is again opposing a move to add wind insurance to the federal flood insurance program, as has been pushed by Rep. Gene Taylor, D.-Miss. A statement from the Office of Management and Budget says...
Midwest Threatened with More Flooding
Jul 22 2010 // The Mississippi River is back above flood stage from the southern tip of Iowa through Missouri, leaving some communities on edge as more storms threaten to bring more water. Parts of southern Iowa, northern Missouri and...
Floods, Landslides Kill 37 in China
Jul 21 2010 // Rescuers in China were searching Tuesday for 30 people buried in landslides as flood waters from days of heavy rain surged past the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest. Soldiers used bulldozers to plow through...
