Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Colorado State University Review Finds 2005 Hurricane Season ‘Most Active, Destructive’ on Record
Dec 5 2005 // A list of the 2005 hurricane season’s most unique characteristics and facts has been released by Colorado State University. A CSU statement said that the just-completed hurricane season was the most active and...
A Hurricane in December? Epsilon Churns the Atlantic
Dec 5 2005 // The hurricane “season” is largely expected to come to a finish by the end of November, and for the Caribbean and U.S. coastal regions hopefully it has. However, Hurricane Epsilon, the 29th named storm of this...
Preparing for Worse
Dec 5 2005 // Florida has survived eight hurricanes in 15 months, but more destruction is coming, according to experts at last month’s National Catastrophe Insurance Summit in Burlingame, Calif. It’s just a matter of time,...
Experts Predict More Advances Soon in Ability to Predict Hurricanes
Dec 5 2005 // Hurricane Wilma was briefly the most intense Atlantic storm on record as it moved through the Caribbean toward the Gulf Coast. That was the last thing Gulf residents wanted to hear. Two months earlier, Hurricane Katrina...
States Claim National Catastrophe Plan Would Save Taxpayers
Dec 5 2005 // Insurance regulators from California, Florida, Illinois and New York, on the heels of last month’s National Catastrophe Insurance Summit, are peddling a national catastrophe insurance program that they say would aid...
$100 BILLION HURRICANE:
Dec 5 2005 // A major hurricane making landfall in the New York City metropolitan area would result in approximately $50 billion of insured losses with total economic losses exceeding $100 billion, according to an expert. That scenario...
States Claim National Catastrophe Plan Would Save Taxpayers
Dec 5 2005 // Insurance regulators from California, Florida, Illinois and New York, on the heels of last month’s National Catastrophe Insurance Summit, are peddling a national catastrophe insurance program that they say would aid...
Experts Predict More Advances Soon in Ability to Predict Hurricanes
Dec 5 2005 // Researchers On the Verge of Predicting How Strong and Big a Hurricane Will Become Hurricane Wilma was briefly the most intense Atlantic storm on record as it moved through the Caribbean toward the Gulf Coast. That was the...
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale Serving Eighth Term
Dec 5 2005 // In public and in an interview with Insurance Journal, Misissippi Insurance Commis-sioner George Dale comes across as a laid-back Mississippi farm-boy, but the commissioner, who has been reelected for eight terms, has...
Court Watch
Dec 5 2005 // For all you lawsuit junkies out there (does it take one to know one?), a Gulf Coast-based law firm has set up a Web log, or blog, that monitors lawsuits filed in relation to the hurricanes that hit Alabama, Louisiana,...
Preparing for Worst, Cat Modelers Say More Destruction Ahead
Dec 5 2005 // Florida has survived eight hurricanes in 15 months, but more destruction is coming, according to risk modeling companies and economists who spoke at the National Catastrophe Insurance Summit in Burlingame,...
No Rate Change for TWIA; Some Question Why
Dec 5 2005 // Texas Insurance Commis- sioner Mike Geeslin recently ordered residential rates for windstorm coverage from the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association to remain the same, but allowed for a 5 percent increase in commercial...
Billing Grace Period Ends in All But Three Miss. Counties
Dec 5 2005 // Some south Mississippians are returning to regular payment schedules to companies that offered billing grace periods to allow for hurricane recovery, according to officials from banks, insurance companies and utilities. In...
Preparing for Worse
Dec 5 2005 // Florida has survived eight hurricanes in 15 months, but more destruction is coming, according to risk modeling companies and economists who spoke at the recent National Catastrophe Insurance Summit. It’s just a...
Insurance Commissioners Announce Framework for National Cat Program
Dec 5 2005 // Insurance regulators from California, Florida, Illinois and New York, on the heels of the National Catastrophe Insurance Summit held in November, are peddling the framework for a national catastrophe insurance program that...
Statewide Code to Guide Rebuilding in Louisiana
Dec 5 2005 // The Louisiana Legislature passed a measure creating a mandatory, uniform statewide building code that proponents believe will not only help build a more structurally stable Loui-siana but will help keep insurance rates...
SAFECO SEES AFTER-TAX LOSSES FROM WILMA AT $29 MILLION
Dec 5 2005 // Seattle-based Safeco has announced estimated after-tax catastrophe losses from Hurricane Wilma of $29 million, or $0.23 per diluted share. Pretax catastrophe losses from the storm are estimated at $45 million. Those...
Editor’s Note: Preparing for Worse
Dec 4 2005 // Florida has survived eight hurricanes in 15 months, but more destruction is coming, according to risk modeling companies and economists who spoke at the recent National Catastrophe Insurance Summit. It’s just a...
News Briefs
Dec 4 2005 // Greenberg Will Not Face Criminal Charges: Additional civil charges against former American International Group Inc. Chairman and CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg are possible, but no state criminal charges are...
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale Serving Eighth Term; Hurricane Katrina Wasn’t Much, Compared to the After
Dec 4 2005 // In public and in an interview with Insurance Journal, Misissippi Insurance Commis-sioner George Dale comes across as a laid-back Mississippi farm-boy, but the commissioner, who has been reelected for eight terms, has...
