Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hawaii To Receive New Flood Insurer
Sep 23 2005 // Hawaii’s insurance commissioner has approved another insurer to come into the Hawaii market offering flood insurance. The new insurer, internet-based Insurecat, will provide “coverage for something as obscure...
Allstate Challenges Mississippi Attorney General Hood’s Lawsuit
Sep 21 2005 // Allstate Corp. has issued a direct challenge to the lawsuit filed last week by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood in which it refutes the charges made by the attorney general. On Sept. 16, Hood sued Allstate Property...
Miss. Rep. Taylor Suggests Carriers Reclassify Katrina’s Damage, Make Flood Program Participation ‘Retroactive’
Sep 20 2005 // Two scenarios about how the federal government might help with insurance claims in the wake of Hurricane Katrina were suggested at a town hall meeting on Monday in D’Iberville, Miss. by U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor. If the...
FEMA Tightens Policy on Flood Safety
Sep 20 2005 // A new federal policy outlined a week before Hurricane Katrina struck could force residents in hundreds of communities nationwide to buy flood insurance and halt construction in some low-lying areas, including parts of...
Hurricane Rita, Packs 100 mph Winds, Passes Key West; Forecasters Predict Texas Track
Sep 20 2005 // Preliminary reports suggest only moderate damage occurred as Hurricane Rita threaded the needle between the Florida Keys and the northern coast of Cuba Tuesday afternoon flooding roads and beaches with seawater. As...
Some Marylanders Still Hurting from Isabel Two Years Later
Sep 20 2005 // While many repairs have been made from Tropical Storm Isabel two years ago, some Maryland residents have yet to fully recover. Although Isabel flooded communities all along the mid-Atlantic when it hit two years ago today,...
REP. SEEKS EMERGENCY AID LAW:
Sep 19 2005 // Rep. Peter J. Daley, D-Washington/Fayette, said he would introduce a bill that would provide flood insurance premium subsidies and other small disaster relief to homeowners, small businesses and municipalities to address...
Fitch: Katrina Causes Unprecedented Challenges/Risks for P/C Insurers
Sep 19 2005 // Circumstances surrounding Hurricane Katrina are unprecedented in many ways, said Fitch Ratings. So much so that the rating agency may need to reassess the core risk profile of the property/casualty insurance...
Wind or Flood? Type of Damage Greatly Affects Insurance Payouts
Sep 19 2005 // In Slidell, La., Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge dumped the contents of two neighboring townhouses into Carol Hess’s backyard, crushed part of her garage and drove debris into her living room, but, her...
HURRICANE KATRINA: The Legal Saga Begins
Sep 19 2005 // Liability Claims Will Range Far-and-Wide for Years to Come The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for...
Surveying the Damage: After Katrina, Can the Industry Withstand Another Disaster?
Sep 19 2005 // Hurricane Katrina could be called an industry nightmare. Some insurers were still reeling from the effects of the Asian tsunamis and last year’s four hurricanes. Yet when Katrina struck in late August, she forced...
Hurricane Katrina: The Legal Saga Begins
Sep 19 2005 // The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for massive public safety legal claims, began Sept. 1. Based on the...
FAIA Studying Windstorm ‘Vehicle’
Sep 19 2005 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents has announced it will study “another avenue” for covering hurricane wind damage in Florida and would like to establish its own “vehicle” to insure...
S. Floridians Viewed Hurricane Katrina as an Expensive Nuisance
Sep 19 2005 // Insurance adjusters scrambled to South Florida to work on claims before they realized Hurricane Katrina was going to cross into the Gulf of Mexico and become a catastrophic hurricane devastating Mississippi and...
Miss. Gov. Barbour Would Rather Negotiate
Sep 19 2005 // Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has commented to The Associated Press in Jackson that he would prefer to negotiate with insurance companies to encourage them to help homeowners without flood insurance rebuild their...
New Orleans-Based GEB Insurance Agency Weathers Katrina
Sep 19 2005 // Firm’s Mobile Emergency Unit Takes Claims in Baton Rouge Before Hurricane Katrina, Gillis, Ellis and Baker Insurance, a New Orleans-based independent insurance brokerage that writes casualty insurance, liability...
Hurricane Katrina: The Legal Saga Begins
Sep 19 2005 // The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for massive public safety legal claims, began Sept. 1. Based on the...
New Orleans-Based GEB Insurance Agency Weathers Katrina
Sep 19 2005 // Before Hurricane Katrina, Gillis, Ellis and Baker Insurance, a New Orleans-based independent insurance brokerage that writes casualty insurance, liability benefits, health, employment, risk management and seismic vessel...
Weathering the storm
Sep 19 2005 // Hurricane Katrina could be called an industry nightmare. Some insurers were still reeling from the effects of the Asian tsunamis and last year’s four hurricanes. Yet when Katrina struck in late August, she forced...
HURRICANE KATRINA: The Legal Saga Begins
Sep 19 2005 // The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for massive public safety legal claims, began Sept. 1. Based on the...
