Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
Forecasters Predict Average Hurricane Season
May 23 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 starts on June 1,...
HURRICANE EXPO SET
Apr 30 2001 // The second annual Hurricane Preparedness Expo is scheduled for June 2 in Savannah, Ga. The expo coincides with the beginning of the hurricane season—June through November. Official sponsors are The Home Depot, Insurance...
HURRICANE FORECASTS
Apr 16 2001 // As of early April, the Colorado State University hurricane forecasting team led by William Gray has upped the numbers for 2001 just slightly, suggesting a normal season. For the June 1-Nov. 30, 2001 season, the scientists...
Hurricane Team Revises Outlook Upward; Predicts Average Season
Apr 9 2001 // As of early April, the Colorado State University hurricane forecasting team led by William Gray has upped the numbers for 2001 just slightly, suggesting a normal season. For the June 1-Nov. 30, 2001 season, the scientists...
From Pin Maps to the World Wide Web
Mar 5 2001 // Since the 1800s, the insurance industry has used technology to track and control catastrophic exposures. Insurers first used mapping after companies were hit by major fires in cities such as Boston, Chicago and...
Rate of Hurricanes Will Increase, Expert Warns
Feb 16 2001 // Hurricane forecaster William Gray predicted Wednesday during the Windstorm Insurance Conference in Orlando, that the nation’s East Coast, particularly Florida, was at the beginning of a period of more frequent...
Gray Predicts Relatively Quiet 2001 Hurricane Season
Dec 8 2000 // After six years that set a record for Atlantic Basin tropical storms and hurricane activity, William Gray and his associates at Colorado State University are calling for a season slightly below the long-term average. For...
Third-Quarter Catastrophe Losses Hit Record Low
Oct 30 2000 // U.S. property/casualty insurers recently received good news from the Insurance Services Office Inc.’s (ISO) Property Claim Services (PCS) unit. Third-quarter insured catastrophe losses registered at $315...
