Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FEMA CHANGES RULES MID-STREAM; WHO SHOULD PAY?
Jul 24 2006 // FEMA recently issued new flood maps that require people in many parts of New Orleans to elevate their houses, according to Jeff Albright, chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Louisiana....
Miss. Judge Has Katrina Insurance Lawsuit Case
Jul 21 2006 // A groundbreaking case that challenges one of the nation’s largest insurers for refusing to cover damage from Hurricane Katrina’s monster storm surge went into the hands of a federal judge on Wednesday. U.S....
First Katrina Insurance Trial Set for Closing Arguments
Jul 20 2006 // A federal judge heard closing arguments Wednesday in the first courtroom challenge of the insurance industry’s denial of billions of dollars of homeowners’ claims after Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge...
Oregon Plans More Work on Highway Flooded in Dike Failure
Jul 19 2006 // It will cost $3 million to prevent more flooding on an Oregon highway damaged last month when a dike failed, state officials say. Oregon 140, which links Klamath Falls with Medford, was closed a week after the Geary Canal...
Fla., Miss., S.C. Top Five States in Flood Insurance Growth
Jul 18 2006 // Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina now rank as three of the top five states in the nation in flood insurance policy growth according to data released by the National Flood Insurance Program and FloodSmart. In order,...
Agent Says He Never Advised Couple Against Buying Flood Insurance
Jul 17 2006 // The agent at the center of a landmark hurricane insurance case on Friday denied telling a policyholder that he didn’t need flood insurance years before Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. denied much of his claim...
Retired Meteorologist Testifies in Katrina Dispute
Jul 14 2006 // Some of Hurricane Katrina’s highest winds, not water, damaged the home of a couple suing their insurance company, an engineer testified Wednesday in what could be a landmark federal trial. Paul and Julie Leonard of...
RiskMeter Adds Flood Elevation Report to Service
Jul 12 2006 // CDS Business Mapping LLC. has added a new Flood Elevation report to its RiskMeter Online (www.RiskMeter.com) service to better understand flood risk for policies that fall outside a flood zone. “After the events of...
Miss. Trial Could Help Decide Claims from Hurricane Katrina
Jul 12 2006 // Hurricane Katrina left thousands of Gulf Coast homeowners battling their insurance companies. A Mississippi police officer and his wife are the first to take their fight to court. A federal judge on Monday began hearing a...
Attorneys Arrive in Miss. for Opening of First Katrina Insurance Lawsuit
Jul 11 2006 // Attorneys carried files and exhibits into a Mississippi federal courthouse Monday for what they expect to be a groundbreaking trial on whether insurance policyholders who lost homes in Hurricane Katrina are entitled to...
N.Y. Adds $25 Million in Flood Aid
Jul 10 2006 // New York State announced another $25 million in aid is being made available to residents and businesses in flood-stricken communities. That money is in addition to a $35 million aid package Gov. George Pataki announced...
Survey Shows Texans 50% Ready for Major Hurricane
Jul 7 2006 // Insured homeowners in Eastern and Southern Coastal Texas have, on average, taken roughly 50 percent of the steps to prepare their homes and property to recover from a major hurricane, according to a new Hurricane Readiness...
U.S. Approves $14 Million for N.H. Flood Victims
Jul 5 2006 // The federal government has approved nearly $14 million in grants and loans for New Ham[pshire residents and businesses hit by flooding in May. Since President Bush signed off on a disaster declaration for six of the...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Towing begins for thousands of cars flooded by Katrina and Rita
Jul 3 2006 // The cars, still streaked with mud from the floodwaters that covered them, many with broken windows, sprung doors and missing hoods, have mostly been removed from New Orleans streets. Now they will be removed from under the...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
