Latest Hurricane Headlines
All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Hurricane Fund Financial Condition As ‘Strong As Ever’
Oct 17 2013 // Florida is ending this year’s storm season with some good news. The state-created fund that backs up private insurers in Florida remains in the best financial shape it has been since it was created 20 years ago. New...
Hurricane-Proof Church a Safe Haven on Gulf Coast
Oct 15 2013 // God is a mighty fortress, the old hymn goes, and the same could be said for Romar Beach Baptist Church. With concrete walls more than a foot thick and pilings driven deep into bedrock, the waterfront church just yards from...
EQECAT President Paul Little on Cat Models – from the General to the Specific
Oct 11 2013 // EQECAT’s President Paul Little explains how cat models have evolved from the general to the specific and what’s now required to create good ones. He also foresees cellular technology – iPhones, Androids,...
NYC Mayor Warns Government Shutdown Could Delay Aid for Sandy Victims
Oct 8 2013 // A continuing federal government shutdown could delay distributing federal aid to Hurricane Sandy victims, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned. Mayor Bloomberg said during his Oct. 6 radio address that it has...
Gulf Coast Braces for Flooding from Tropical Storm Karen
Oct 3 2013 // Tropical Storm Karen may bring more than 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain, isolated tornadoes and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast, where it is expected to go ashore over the weekend, forecasters said. Karen, with top...
Bill Would Take the Florida Cat Fund in the Wrong Direction
Oct 3 2013 // Florida state Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Margate, has filed Senate Bill 228 to maintain the current statutory requirement that the state-run Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, better known as the Cat Fund, sell $17 billion in...
Tropical Storm Karen Forms in Gulf; Hurricane Watch in Effect
Oct 3 2013 // Tropical storm Karen, the 11th named storm of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, has formed over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest bulletin. Karen is packing maximum...
Quiet Atlantic Storm Season Humbles Forecasters
Sep 25 2013 // The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season is humbling forecasters by shaping up as the first in almost two decades without a major storm, confounding predictions that it would be more active than normal. It’s been two weeks...
E&O Insights: Mother Nature’s Effect on E&O Claims
Sep 23 2013 // It seems that practically every time you turn on the news, a part of the United States is being threatened by a significant weather-related event. It’s sometimes anyone’s guess when and where the next...
A Forecast-Busting Atlantic Hurricane Season
Sep 23 2013 // The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which forecasters had predicted would be more active than normal, has turned out to be something of a dud so far as an unusual calm has been hanging over the tropics. As the season...
Mexico Storms Leave 80 Dead as New Hurricane Heads for Coast
Sep 19 2013 // Hurricane Manuel formed off of Mexico’s Pacific coast, promising to bring new flooding as the nation struggles to clean up after two storms that killed at least 80 people and trapped thousands of tourists in the...
Texas A&M: Lessons We Learned From Hurricane Ike
Sep 17 2013 // Sept. 13 marked the fifth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Ike on the Texas coast. Despite its Category 2 ranking when it hit, Ike caused more than $30 billion in damage and the lessons learned from it could be...
Karen Clark & Co. Report Looks Back at New England Hurricane of 1938
Sep 16 2013 // Karen Clark & Company, independent experts in catastrophe risk, catastrophe models and catastrophe risk management, issued a report, in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the Great New England Hurricane,...
Hurricane Ingrid Nears Mexico as Manuel Dissipates Over Land
Sep 16 2013 // Hurricane Ingrid, bearing down on eastern Mexico as Tropical Depression Manuel dissipated over west-central areas, will probably make landfall today, with both systems forecast to bring life-threatening floods. The second...
Mississippi Shipbuilder, Insurer Settle on $180M for Katrina Damages
Sep 12 2013 // Huntington Ingalls Industries and its insurer have reached cash settlement for $180 million for the shipbuilder’s losses from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 at facilities in Pascagoula and Avondale, La. The Mississippi...
Humberto Becomes Season’s First Hurricane; Gabrielle Spares Bermuda
Sep 11 2013 // Hurricane Humberto, the season’s first, churned in the Atlantic west of the Cape Verde Islands as Tropical Storm Gabrielle stalled after passing Bermuda. Humberto was declared a Category 1 storm in a 5 a.m. advisory...
Bermuda Under Tropical Storm Warning for Gabrielle
Sep 10 2013 // Tropical Storm Gabrielle reformed in the Atlantic south of Bermuda, which can expect high winds, rough surf and rain later today, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Gabrielle was 165 miles (265 kilometers)...
Quiet 2013 Hurricane Season a ‘Head Scratcher’ for Embarrassed Forecasters
Sep 9 2013 // The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which forecasters had predicted would be more active than normal, has turned out to be something of a dud so far as an unusual calm hangs over the tropics. As the season heads into the...
Reinsurance Terms and Conditions, More Than Price, Could Be Focus in 2014
Sep 6 2013 // Reinsurers may fail to increase rates they charge primary carriers for their backstop coverage when they begin price talks for 2014 in Monte Carlo this week. “I expect the market staying flat to ticking down, on the...
Tropical Storm Gabrielle Drenches Puerto Rico
Sep 5 2013 // Tropical Storm Gabrielle isn’t expected to gain much strength as it churns in the Caribbean Sea on a path between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Gabrielle was about...
