Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurers Must Review Premium Credits by Oct. 31, La. Says
Oct 1 2007 // Insurers have until Oct. 31 to review the discounts they offer for policies in Louisiana that don’t cover wind or have high hurricane deductibles, according to a bulletin issued by the Louisiana Department of...
Hurricane Lorenzo Strikes Mexico
Sep 28 2007 // Lorenzo, a category 1 hurricane, has come ashore along the east-central coast of Mexico. The storm is “moving toward the west near 8 mph [13 km/hr]” according to the latest bulletin from the National Hurricane...
Actuaries Oppose Wind Addition to National Flood Insurance
Sep 28 2007 // The National Flood Insurance Program is over $17 billion in debt according to the American Academy of Actuaries, adding further anxiety to a proposal to add wind peril coverage to the national plan. While the U.S. House of...
La., Texas Towns Recovering Slowly 2 Years after Hurricane Rita
Sep 25 2007 // Cameron, La., and Weirgate, Texas, have something in common: both are recovering slowly two years after Hurricane Rita blew through them in September 2005. According to Associated Press reports, nearly everyone in Cameron...
P/C Insurers’ Underwriting Results, Profitability Slip in First-Half 2007
Sep 25 2007 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry’s overall profitability as measured by its annualized rate of return on average policyholders’ surplus (or statutory net worth) slipped to 13.1 percent in...
Alabama realtors call for coastal insurance relief
Sep 24 2007 // Owners of thousands of condominiums that line the Alabama Gulf Coast say they’re getting burned by soaring insurance premiums and insurance legislation to make coverage available and affordable on the coast...
Catastrophes: There is no free lunch
Sep 24 2007 // Any study that implies consumers and taxpayers have thousands of years to realize savings is immediately suspect. Since the devastating hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005, some Florida politicians and a few insurers have...
Report: Insurers did not shift wind claims
Sep 24 2007 // A preliminary report from the federal government found no evidence to support allegations that private insurers improperly shifted wind damage claims from Hurricane Katrina onto the federal government’s flood...
Florida’s private insurers try to be heard amid political storm
Sep 24 2007 // Florida’s property insurance industry is in the middle of the hurricane season — the political hurricane season. The state’s politicians promised homeowners their insurance premiums would go down after...
A small private Fla. insurer faces Citizens and the ‘perfect storm’
Sep 24 2007 // From “Happy Days” to “The Perfect Storm” is how one Florida insurance executive describes her state’s defining years between 2003 and 2007 — and she isn’t talking just about the...
Lloyd’s America’s Baker: Time for action on climate change is now
Sep 24 2007 // For an insurer, understanding climate change is a matter of understanding trends in risk and changes in those trends. For Wendy Baker, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., staying on top of those trends in the United...
Florida’s private insurers try to be heard amid political storm
Sep 24 2007 // Protesters gathered on the steps of the old Florida Capitol to protest the high cost of property insurance rates in January in Tallahassee. The Legislature was in special session to pass homeowners insurance legislation....
News Currents
Sep 24 2007 // Report: Insurers did not shift wind claims p:”Our sample revealed no evidence that wind damages were improperly attributed to flooding,” the Department of Homeland Security reported after reviewing 98 flood...
Alabama realtors call for coastal insurance relief
Sep 24 2007 // Owners of thousands of condominiums that line the Alabama Gulf Coast say they’re getting burned by soaring insurance premiums and insurance legislation to make coverage available and affordable on the coast...
Catastrophes: The time to act is now
Sep 24 2007 // Reports show that the typical taxpaying American family paid more than $800 to cover costs associated with Hurricane Katrina. That is an enormous nationwide catastrophe tax. Two years have passed since America’s most...
Humberto lands in Texas, sweeps across La.
Sep 24 2007 // Hurricane Humberto, a category 1 hurricane that formed quickly off the coast of Texas, plowed into the southeast corner of the state on Sept. 13 bringing with it heavy rains and 80 miles per hour winds. The hurricane made...
Lloyd’s America’s Baker: Time for action on climate change is now
Sep 24 2007 // For an insurer, understanding climate change is a matter of understanding trends in risk and changes in those trends. For Wendy Baker, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., staying on top of those trends in the United...
EQECAT Releases New Hurricane Model Software
Sep 21 2007 // EQECAT, Inc., a subsidiary of ABSG Consulting Inc., announced the release of its “3.10” catastrophe management software, which includes its next generation model for Atlantic basin hurricanes. “The storms...
Texas AG Warns Against Price Gouging After Hurricane
Sep 18 2007 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott warned Gulf Coast residents to be wary of price gouging, charity scams and other fraudulent attempts to bilk consumers in the aftermath of Hurricane Humberto. The AG released the warning...
Climate Change Expert Predicts Hawaii Hurricanes To Get Stronger
Sep 18 2007 // Nobody can say how many hurricanes will hit Hawaii each year, according to a climate change expert, but there’s no doubt they’ll get worse. “I can’t tell you there will be more of them,”...
