Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Natl. Hurricane Center Director Advises ‘Plan Ahead’
May 9 2005 // Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center’s visited Jacksonville May 6 as part of the center’s annual hurricane awareness tour. Students got a chance to hear from hurricane experts and check out a...
Hurricane-Strength Wind Gusts Hit N.C. Outer Banks
May 9 2005 // A storm system which included hurricane-strength wind gusts up to 115 mph hit North Carolina’s Outer Banks Friday as a storm system pushed through North Carolina, bringing wind gusts and driving rain. According to...
Florida CFO Lauds Passage of Homeowners Insurance Protections for Residents
May 9 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher on Monday said that the homeowners insurance legislation that passed late Friday contains numerous provisions that will benefit Florida’s...
Hurricane Forecast: New Jersey To Get Hit Sooner or Later
May 9 2005 // For decades, New Jersey has been spared the wrath of major hurricanes, the storms usually veering out to sea before they can wreak havoc on the densely developed coast. But eventually the state’s luck will run out,...
Fla. Legislature Approves Hurricane Savings Accounts
May 5 2005 // Florida CEO Tom Gallagher affirmed that the Legislature has approved a measure laying the groundwork to enable residents to establish hurricane savings accounts and protect those accounts from creditors, but, Congress...
Lloyd’s Chairman Highlights Three Important Hurricane Lessons
May 4 2005 // Three important lessons from the 2004 hurricane season were highlighted to more than 100 insurance professionals Wednesday in Miami by Lloyd’s Chairman Lord Levene, in advance of what is predicted to be another tough...
Fla. Sets Groundwork for Hurricane Savings Accounts
May 4 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher today applauded state lawmakers for approving a measure that lays the groundwork for Floridians to set up hurricane savings accounts and protect these accounts from...
Best Affirms RenRe Subs Ratings; Downgrades Credit and Debt Ratings; Removes Ratings From Review
May 3 2005 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed the financial strength rating of “A+” (Superior) of Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd. (RenRe Ltd.) and the financial strength ratings of “A” (Excellent) of...
PCI Ad Campaign: Alerts Lawmakers About Negative Effects of ‘Pro-Consumer’ Proposals
May 2 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America launched an advertising campaign today in Florida warning lawmakers about misguided hurricane insurance bills that will raise rates, make insurance harder to find and...
AAMGA Ethics Workshop Topic: Insurance Industry Pressures
May 2 2005 // “Ethics in the Wholesale Insurance Marketplace” workshops concluded on Saturday afternoon with a round-table discussion, led by Ernest Csiszar, president of the Property and Casualty Insurance Association of...
‘Miss Piggy,’ Hurricane Center Forecasters to Visit Charleston, S.C., Jacksonville, Fla.
Apr 29 2005 // Charleston, S.C. and Jacksonville, Fla. are two of five cities NOAA National Hurricane Center forecasters and NOAA Aircraft Operations Center crew will visit during a May 2-6, five-day mission. The purpose of the tour is...
FEMA Director Defends Agency; Critics Claim Payments Slow, Exaggerated Death Benefits
Apr 29 2005 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is being criticized in Florida for being too slow to pay counties for hurricane claims and too aggressive in paying benefits for people who died during last year’s hurricanes;...
Climatologist Cautions Peach-State Residents to Be Prepared for Hurricanes
Apr 28 2005 // “The seasonal hurricane outlook should have no impact on hurricane plans,” David Stooksbury, the Georgia state climatologist cautioned the Governor’s Emergency Management Conference at the Savannah...
S. Fla. Forecaster Suggests Link Between Hurricane Behavior, May Rainfall
Apr 28 2005 // A link between the behavior of hurricanes and the amount of rain that falls in South Florida in May has been suggested by Jim Lushine, a meteorologist and weather forecaster at the National Weather Service in...
EQECAT Issues U.S Hurricane Model Challenge
Apr 26 2005 // Richard Clinton, president of Oakland Calif.-based EQECAT, a leading authority on extreme-risk modeling, announced an initiative aimed at comparing its models of the 2004 hurricane events for Florida exposure against the...
Crawford & Co. Reports a Disappointing First Quarter
Apr 25 2005 // Atlanta-based Crawford & Co., a large independent provider of claims management solutions to insurance companies and self-insured entities has announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31,...
Simulated Exercises Teach Homeowners How to Prepare for Hurricanes
Apr 22 2005 // Widespread hurricanes have blown through several Florida cities during the past several days, and Hurricane Armando, a simulated hurricane, is expected to hit Tallahassee April 23. Florida American Red Cross and Emergency...
Fla. ‘Sales Tax Holiday’ Proposed to Encourage Hurricane Preparations
Apr 21 2005 // With the beginning of the hurricane season six weeks away, Florida residents are scurrying to be ready to batten-down-the-hatches: Florida legislators are about to pass a “sales tax holiday” to enable consumers...
University Researchers Design Computer Model to Predict Hurricane Damages
Apr 21 2005 // A computer modeling system has been developed by two university researchers to predict the annual damage done by hurricanes, based on wind patterns over the land and sea in July, to predict whether damages will be greater...
Fla. Legislature Mulls Over Insurance Proposals, Sessions End in Three Weeks
Apr 20 2005 // With three weeks remaining before the end of the 2005 sessions of the Florida Legislature, it appears that only a few insurance-related proposals have made it through the process of elimination. Remaining proposals...
