Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
The Global Picture: Debate Over Climate Change Continues to Storm
Feb 12 2001 // Experts agree that the world’s climate is changing, but the debate continues about the causes and consequences. Multiple interactive factors are involved. The oceans warm and cool, the sun goes through an 11-year...
RSA Doubles Storm Loss Estimates
Jan 19 2001 // Britain’s Royal & Sun Alliance announced that loss estimates for the fourth quarter of 2000 are between £180 million ($267.5 million) and £200 million ($297 million) almost doubling the previous...
RSA, Wellington Estimate U.K. Storm Losses
Nov 10 2000 // Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA) estimates that it could face claims of £100 million ($145 million) or more from the current storms sweeping the U.K. Lloyd’s insurer Wellington said the events over the last three...
U.K. Storm Loss Estimates Between $300 and $660 Million – AIR Sees More Ahead
Oct 31 2000 // According to a BBC report, U.K. insurers’ preliminary estimates of the claims they may face from three days of high winds and rain, which have caused extensive damage in southern England, is put at around £200...
Industry Tallies Ohio Tornado Losses
Sep 28 2000 // The combined damage caused by a tornado that ripped through Xenia, Ohio Sept. 20 and storms in several other counties, has been estimated at more than $33 million in insured losses, according to the the Ohio Insurance...
Storm Chasers: ICAT Covers Catastrophes from Coast to Coast
Sep 4 2000 // Like the tornado chasers in the movie “Twister,” International Catastrophe Insurance Managers LLC (ICAT) keeps pushing into new territory where others hang back. ICAT, which currently underwrites catastrophe...
Minnesota Tornado Damage Estimated at $8.1 Million
Jul 28 2000 // The tornado that pummeled Granite Falls, Minn. earlier this week is estimated to have caused $8.1 million in damage to homes and other property. Homeowners suffered $3 million in losses and $2.8 million in damage to...
State Farm Adjusts Ohio Homeowners Rates; Estimates $7 Million in Storm Claims
Jul 18 2000 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Company has increased its statewide average rate increase by 1 percent for Ohio homeowners insurance policyholders, including renters and condominium unit owners. The new rates were implemented...
Wisconsin Storms Cause $28 Million in Damage
Jun 14 2000 // Wisconsin state officials have estimated damages from a series of storms that ripped through the state nearly two weeks ago at $28.5 million. Gov. Tommy Thompson is considering a request for federal disaster relief in 16...
French Insurance Association Ups Storm Loss Estimates
May 31 2000 // Federation Francaise des Societes d’Assurance (FFSA) president Denis Kessler said yesterday that the loss estimates from last winter’s storms, Lothar and Martin, would top 45 billion francs ($6.4 billion)...
Australia Battered by Storms, Floods
Feb 25 2000 // Monsoon driven rains continued to dump water on central and Northeastern Australia, knocking out bridges, flooding highways and isolating many small communities. The Thomson River was expected to crest at 6 meters (19.8...
Allianz Estimates Europe Storm Losses at Over $600 Million
Feb 3 2000 // Germany’s Allianz reported that the storms which swept Europe at the end of December had resulted in claims estimated at 625 million Euros ( $612 million). $107 million in claims for property and automobile damages...
French Insured Storm Losses Put at $4.4 Billion
Feb 2 2000 // Confirming previous estimates, the Federation Francaise de Societes d’Assurance reported Monday that over 3 million damage claims had been filed as a result of the storms which hit France at the end of December....
XL Capital Announces Impact of European Storm Losses
Feb 2 2000 // XL Capital Ltd. announced today that net operating earnings for the 4th quarter 1999 earnings will be reduced by $125 million, or $0.97 per share, after tax as a result of the impact of losses from two major windstorms...
