Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NYSID Focus on Insurance During Hurricane Awareness Week
May 22 2002 // While it might be a more urgent priority in Florida or Texas rather than New York, hurricanes and tropical storms can nonetheless cause extensive damage all along the eastern seaboard. It’s not surprising therefore...
Swiss Re Sponsors Brazilian Water Project; Offers Hurricane Expert Advice
May 20 2002 // Swiss Re will sponsor a water resources project in Northeastern Brazil in conjunction with World Vision, an independent environmental organization, and . will offer hurricane advice to the media by weather forecasting...
Catastrophe Modeling-Feeding the Risk Transfer Food Chain
Feb 25 2002 // The increasingly sophisticated business of constructing catastrophe models is driven by three main imperatives: what are the chances of a given event happening; what are the upper and lower limits of a catastrophic...
Active Hurricane Season Expected for 2002
Feb 25 2002 // What is a Hurricane? A hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone—a generic term for a low pressure system that generally forms in the tropics. The cyclone is accompanied by thunderstorms and, in the Northern Hemisphere, a...
The View from Up There-Insurers Embrace Space Age Technologies
Feb 25 2002 // In the summer of 2001, a U.S. District judge in Arkansas ruled against several farmers accused of filing false crop insurance claims totaling approximately $244,000. Key evidence in the lawsuit—filed on behalf of the...
Catastrophe Modeling-Feeding the Risk Transfer Food Chain
Feb 25 2002 // The increasingly sophisticated business of constructing catastrophe models is driven by three main imperatives: what are the chances of a given event happening; what are the upper and lower limits of a catastrophic...
Top 10 Stories of 2001
Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the Future This is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth,...
TSR Predicts Active Atlantic Hurricane Season
Dec 4 2001 // The London-based tropical Storm Risk Consortium (TSR) has issued a bulletin predicting that the number of Atlantic storms in 2002 will be above average, and that at least two hurricanes will strike the U.S. “TSR...
From Promotions to Sport Pros, Special Events Insurance Covers it All
Dec 3 2001 // During the playoffs between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees preceding the 2001 World Series, the National-Hole-in-One Association provided insurance coverage for a promotion sponsored by a Seattle-based...
The View from Up There-Insurers Embrace Space Age Technologies
Nov 12 2001 // The key witness in a recent crop fraud case turned out to be a camera. In June 2001, a U.S. District judge in Arkansas ruled against several farmers accused of filing false crop insurance claims totaling approximately...
NAII Releases Follow-Up on Insurance Ramifications of Attack
Sep 13 2001 // As rescue efforts continue in lower Manhattan, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, catastrophe teams from property/casualty insurance companies are poised to enter the damaged areas to begin assessing the damage and paying...
RMS Upgrades Hawaii Hurricane Model for Insurance Market
Aug 22 2001 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), industry leader in the area of natural hazard risk modeling, announced the latest release of its RMS™ Hawaii Hurricane model. The model upgrade offers significantly improved risk...
Two More Named Storms Forecast for August
Aug 20 2001 // As the Atlantic hurricane season’s second named storm has faded into memory, hurricane forecaster William Gray predicts two more named storms in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico during the month of August. One...
NASA Study to Dissect Hurricanes
Aug 16 2001 // As the country gears up for hurricane season, researchers from the Convection And Moisture EXperiment (CAMEX) are getting ready to conduct an in-depth study of the storms by meeting them head-on. CAMEX is the fourth in a...
Above-Average Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted by TSR Consortium
Aug 9 2001 // The Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) consortium issued renewed above-average projections for the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season. The number of tropical storms and hurricanes striking US shores in 2001 are expected to be 20 to 30...
Study Says Eight Insurers Command 65 Percent Market Share in Hurricane-Prone States
Jul 23 2001 // A recent study by Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.-based Weiss Ratings Inc. indicated that just eight large property and casualty insurers provide homeowners coverage to residents in hurricane-prone states. Weiss Ratings, a...
Study Says Eight Insurers Command 65% Market Share in Hurricane-Prone States
Jul 13 2001 // A recent study by Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.-based Weiss Ratings Inc. indicated that just eight large property and casualty insurers provide homeowners coverage to residents in hurricane-prone states. Weiss Ratings, a...
Study Disagrees With Global Warming Notion
Jul 12 2001 // A study analyzing insured hurricane damages from all hurricanes which impacted the continental U.S. in the 20th Century, disagrees with some analysts’ claims who stated that global warming has caused gains in...
More Atlantic Hurricanes Predicted
Jul 11 2001 // London-based weather analyst Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) has predicted more storm activity in the Atlantic this year than previously expected, with the possible formation of 6 potentially deadly hurricanes from a total of 13...
LOOKING OUT FOR HURRICANES
Jun 11 2001 // Five to seven hurricanes could strike the Caribbean and southeast U.S. coasts this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting. This hurricane season, which officially started on June 1,...
