Latest Natural Disasters Headlines
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Disaster Declaration Approved for North Carolina Tornado
May 11 2018 // President Donald Trump has approved a request from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper for a federal disaster declaration for tornado damage in Guilford and Rockingham counties. Cooper declared a state of emergency for Guilford...
Targeting Earthquakes, Oklahoma Limiting Wastewater Well Volumes
May 10 2018 // Oklahoma oil and natural gas regulators have instructed the operators of 23 wastewater disposal wells to reduce their disposal volumes due to recent earthquakes in Garfield County. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission...
Texas Windstorm Association Seeking $175M Assessment for Harvey Losses
May 9 2018 // The board of directors of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has authorized staff to seek regulatory approval for a $175 million assessment to TWIA’s insurance company members for losses associated with...
Hawaiian Volcano Slopes Offer Affordable Paradise, Risks
May 8 2018 // As lava crawled down Leilani Road in a hissing, popping mass, Cheryl Griffith stood in its path and placed a plant in a crack in the ground as an offering to the Native Hawaiian volcano goddess, Pele. Griffith lives in...
CoreLogic® Offers Unique Perspective to HayWired Earthquake Scenario in Conjunction with the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
May 7 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Situated along the eastern edge of the Pacific Ocean’s “Ring of Fire,” California is in the middle of earthquake country, and planning for the next...
US Disaster Assistance OK’d for County After Oklahoma Wildfires
May 7 2018 // Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says home and business owners in Dewey County who sustained uninsured damage from wildfires can now receive disaster assistance from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Fallin says the...
Lava from Hawaii Volcano Destroys Dozens of Homes
May 7 2018 // Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has destroyed 26 homes and spewed lava hundreds of feet into the air, leaving evacuated residents unsure how long they might be displaced. Hawaii County officials said another four...
Florida’s Citizens Reopens More Than 25K Hurricane Irma Claims
May 7 2018 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. says it has reopened about 37 percent of its Hurricane Irma claims, according to a statement from the Florida insurer of last resort. The insurer says the reopening of claims is part of...
Small Businesses Hampered by Uninsured Losses After 2017 Hurricanes: Fed Reserve
May 7 2018 // Small businesses in the United States struggled with uninsured damages and lost revenue following a record-breaking year of hurricanes and wildfires in 2017, according to a Federal Reserve survey published in April. The...
ICT’s Documentary Shows Hurricane Harvey’s Catastrophic Damage
May 4 2018 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) announced it premiered a new documentary on Hurricane Harvey this week before 1,000 first responders at this year’s Coastal Bend Hurricane Conference in Robstown. The video...
Hawaii Volcano Eruption Prompts Evacuations
May 4 2018 // Nearly 1,500 residents were ordered to evacuate from their volcano-side homes after Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano erupted, sending molten lava to chew its way through forest land and bubble up on paved streets. Volcano...
Insurers Offering Discounts on Tornado-Resilient Homes in Oklahoma
May 2 2018 // Dozens of insurance companies are now offering discounts to Oklahomans who have built or retrofitted their homes to certain tornado-resilient standards, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. A new law went into...
3 Small Earthquakes Occurred off Southern California Ocean
May 2 2018 // Several minor earthquakes well offshore have lightly shaken some Southern California coastal communities, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quakes occurred before dawn Tuesday near the southern end of San...
No Tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2018 – Yet
May 1 2018 // This year’s weather on the Southern Plains has an odd twist: Oklahoma has yet to record its first tornado, the deepest into the year it’s gone without one since 1962. Although a drought has dried up moisture...
Recovery Efforts Underway in North Carolina After Tornado Damages 1K Structures
Apr 27 2018 // An aerial view of significant damage to W.M. Hampton Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Monday, April 16, 2018. Two storms, reported as tornadoes, toppled trees and ripped apart homes in Greensboro and Reidsville...
Bills Addressing Last Year’s California Wildfires Have Insurers Concerned
Apr 26 2018 // Insurance industry representatives said on Thursday they are working with the authors of pair of controversial bills approved by a committee in the California state Senate that are designed to give relief to victims of the...
California Bill Would Shield PG&E, Edison from Some Wildfire Liability
Apr 26 2018 // Utility giants PG&E Corp. and Edison International could gain at least some protection against future wildfire damages under a bill that’s advancing in California’s legislature. An amended bill being...
GuideWell Insurance Agency in Florida to Offer StormPeace Hurricane Coverage
Apr 26 2018 // GuideWell Insurance Agency, an exclusive property and casualty agency for Florida Blue health plan members, will offer StormPeace, a supplemental hurricane policy from Assured Risk Cover that provides coverage of losses...
California Commissioner Doing Battle with Insurers over Wildfire Bills
Apr 25 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones appears to be poised for a fight with the insurance industry over a legislative package supports say will protect survivors of last year’s wildfires that struck in the...
NWS: Alabama, Florida Storms Spawned At Least 3 Tornadoes
Apr 25 2018 // The National Weather Service confirms at least three tornadoes in Alabama from Sunday storms, and is surveying other parts of southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. A storm with estimated winds of 80 mph (130 kph)...
