Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mississippi Court Rules Home Insurance Policy Covers Hurricane Wind Damage
Oct 9 2009 // In a 9-0 decision, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that so-called “all-risk” home insurance policies may cover wind damage from hurricanes, even in situations where the loss is later exacerbated by...
Architect: Floating House Could Ride Out New Orleans’ Floods
Oct 8 2009 // A house capable of floating atop rising floodwaters made its debut Oct. 6 in New Orleans alongside more than a dozen other homes built through actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation. Called the FLOAT House, the...
What to Expect If Hurricane Hugo Hit South Carolina Today
Oct 5 2009 // Hurricane Hugo was the most costly hurricane ever to hit the United States when it made landfall in South Carolina in 1989, causing $4.2 billion in insured damage. Since then, the total insured property along South...
Hurricane Losses Color Florida’s Deficit
Oct 5 2009 // A Florida House-Senate budget panel has added the state’s risk of incurring billions of dollars in possible hurricane insurance losses to Florida’s long-range financial outlook. The new changes could dwarf...
4 Years Later, Texas Housing Agency Says Rita Aid Pace Picking Up
Sep 28 2009 // Hundreds of southeast Texans displaced by Hurricane Rita four years ago are still waiting for new federally funded homes to be built while a state agency tries to spend the housing construction money it has a little...
Fugate Brings Florida Ideas to FEMA
Sep 24 2009 // Craig Fugate brought three lessons with him when he took over the Federal Emergency Management Agency: Always be ready for disasters, make sure people take responsibility for themselves and get the message out...
10 Years Ago, Hurricane Floyd Brought Flooding, Evacuations to Carolinas
Sep 22 2009 // In the dark of night on Sept. 15, 1999, Kelly Andreucci stood on the front porch of his childhood home along Godfrey Avenue and worried about the rain drenching his neighborhood. That night, Hurricane Floyd skirted the...
Hurricane Hugo Today Would Cause $20 Billion in Damage in South Carolina
Sep 22 2009 // Hurricane Hugo was the most costly hurricane ever to hit the United States when it made landfall in South Carolina in 1989, causing $4.2 billion in insured damage. Since then, the total insured property along South...
Potential Hurricane Insurance Losses Added to Florida’s Long-Range Deficit Projections
Sep 17 2009 // A House-Senate budget panel has added the state’s risk of incurring billions of dollars in possible hurricane insurance losses to Florida’s long-range financial outlook. The new changes could dwarf potential...
It Was No Katrina But Some in Coastal America Remember Ivan’s Terror
Sep 17 2009 // People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can’t forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of...
Gulf Coast Construction ‘Woefully Inadequate’ to Survive Storm Flooding
Sep 17 2009 // Government minimum flood elevation requirements for properties vulnerable to storm surge throughout the Gulf Coast region are “woefully inadequate,” according to a new study of property damage caused by...
Ike Study: Hurricane Storm Surge a Threat to More Coastal Properties
Sep 14 2009 // Government minimum flood elevation requirements for properties vulnerable to storm surge throughout the Gulf Coast region are woefully inadequate, according to a new study of property damage caused by Hurricane Ike, which...
Hawaii Group Buys Hurricane Insurer Zephyr from Kingsway
Sep 11 2009 // Toronto-based Kingsway Financial Services Inc. has agreed to sell Zephyr Insurance Co., Inc. to Zephyr Acquisition Co., an acquisition vehicle of Ocean Harbor Holding Inc. and MP Holdings LLC, a Hawaiian based investor...
Hurricane Fred Weakens in Atlantic
Sep 10 2009 // Hurricane Fred weakened on Wednesday after briefly flaring into a powerful Category 3 storm in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and was forecast to fizzle as it churned far away from land. Fred’s sustained winds dropped to...
Fred Now a Category 2 Hurricane
Sep 9 2009 // According to the most recent bulletin (5:00 a.m. AST) from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fred has intensified to a Category 2 hurricane on the Safer-Simpson scale with maximum sustained winds of around 105 mph,...
Tropical Storm Fred Forms in Eastern Atlantic
Sep 8 2009 // The National Hurricane Center in Miami is tracking the season’s latest potential cyclone, Fred, which Has strengthened into a tropical storm over the “far eastern tropical Atlantic.” The NHC’s 5:00...
Tornado Threat Increases as Gulf Hurricanes Get Larger
Sep 8 2009 // Tornadoes that occur from hurricanes moving inland from the Gulf Coast are increasing in frequency, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This increase seems to reflect the increase in size and...
Florida in Better, Not Perfect, Insurance Shape Should Major Hurricane Hit
Sep 7 2009 // Florida property insurers are warning that a major hurricane is likely this season given the state’s history of storms. At the same time, the industry says, the state-backed catastrophe reinsurance fund, the Florida...
Some State-Run Property Insurance Plans in Precarious Financial Situation
Sep 4 2009 // As the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season enters its peak period, the finances of a number of residual market property plans in hurricane-exposed states are on shaky ground. The credit crunch and prolonged economic downturn...
Louisiana Commissioner: Don’t Raise Taxes on Reinsurers
Sep 3 2009 // Now that the hurricane season is well underway, Louisianans remember when Katrina came ashore, late in August 2005, with a storm surge that eventually flooded New Orleans and leveled many Gulf Coast towns, costing more...
