Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FLA. PROPERTY BILL ADVANCES
May 8 2006 // A rapid 25 percent cash buildup for the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and the establishment of a hurricane mitigation endowment fund to allow homeowners to obtain no-interest loans to implement hurricane mitigation...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 2006 // Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and that they are designed to justify insurance...
Mayfield: ‘2006 hurricane season CAN be worse than 2005’
May 8 2006 // With more than 55 million people living in coastal communities, the nation must learn its lesson from the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons and prepare now for what will happen after June 1, according to Max Mayfield,...
Judge orders Southern Family rehabilitation
May 8 2006 // Leon County, Fla. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Co., one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group into rehabilitation. To ensure the...
Hurricane winds could be felt in professional liability markets
May 8 2006 // The professional liability market may be significantly affected by the increase in frequency and severity of hurricanes, causing greater rating agency scrutiny and changes to evaluation models. “The three recent...
Hurricane winds could be felt in professional liability markets
May 8 2006 // The professional liability market may be significantly affected by the increase in frequency and severity of hurricanes, causing greater rating agency scrutiny and changes to evaluation models. “The three recent...
Rensselaer model of New Orleans levee points to layer of clay
May 8 2006 // Preliminary findings from a simulation project suggest that during Hurricane Katrina the 17th Street Canal levee in New Orleans may have slid on a layer of weak clay just beneath the peat that underlies the earthen...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 2006 // News Currents Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and that they are designed to...
Editor’s Note: Tornados foretell things to come
May 8 2006 // As emergency planners and hurricane experts from across the U.S. met in April to plan and prepare for the hurricane season, the timing couldn’t have been better, as massive twisters roared down “tornado...
Judge orders Southern Family rehabilitation
May 8 2006 // Leon County, Fla. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Co., one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group into rehabilitation. To ensure the...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 2006 // News Currents Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and that they are designed to...
Fla. property bill advances
May 8 2006 // A rapid 25 percent cash buildup for the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and the establishment of a hurricane mitigation endowment fund to allow homeowners to obtain no-interest loans to implement hurricane mitigation...
Mayfield: ‘2006 hurricane season CAN be worse than 2005’
May 8 2006 // With more than 55 million people living in coastal communities, the nation must learn its lesson from the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons and prepare now for what will happen after June 1, according to Max Mayfield,...
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association: Challenges and solutions
May 8 2006 // The 2006 hurricane season is looming and the insurance industry already sees dark clouds on the horizon. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is considerably under-funded in the event a major hurricane makes landfall...
Hurricane winds could be felt in professional liability markets
May 8 2006 // The professional liability market may be significantly affected by the increase in frequency and severity of hurricanes, causing greater rating agency scrutiny and changes to evaluation models. “The three recent...
Hurricane Awareness Tour Successfully Concludes in Tampa, Fla.
May 5 2006 // With the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season less than one month away, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2006 Hurricane Awareness Tour has come to a successful conclusion in Tampa,...
Research Center to Unveil New Hurricane Loss Prediction Model
May 5 2006 // The first public model to project hurricane losses for the State of Florida has been completed by the International Hurricane Research Center in Miami, Fla. The new model already has produced excellent figures on Hurricane...
Fla. Calls for Federal Insurance Subsidy
May 4 2006 // The insurance crisis is not a Florida problem, it is a national problem that demands national solutions, Tom Gallagher, Florida CFO, said after applauding the Florida Legislature for calling on Congress to create a...
Fla. House Passes Bill Intended to Fix Property Insurance Problems
May 3 2006 // With hurricane season looming just one month away, the Florida House has passed a bill aimed at making sure that if Florida has another bad run of storms there will be insurance companies there to cover people’s...
‘Miss Piggy,’ NOAA Aircrew, Hurricane Center Forecasters Visiting Ala., Fla.
May 3 2006 // Forecasters from the NOAA National Hurricane Center will join the air crew from the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center on hurricane hunter aircraft visits March 3, 4 and 5 to Mobile, Ala., West Palm Beach, Fla. and Tampa,...
