After Huge Wildfires, Greece Creates Climate Crisis Ministry September 8, 2021 By Derek Gatopoulos Greece’s center-right government has created a new ministry to address the impact of climate change and named former European Union...
How Family-Work-Neighbor Networks May Make Things Worse in Disaster Response June 2, 2020 Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might save lives, fail to alert each other to danger...
FEMA Tackles COVID-19 While Also Facing Past Disasters, Spring Flood Season March 23, 2020 By Leslie Kaufman and Brian K. Sullivan It wasn’t until Wednesday, five days after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Men and Women Respond Differently When Natural Disasters Strike, Researchers Say September 25, 2019 Women are quicker to take cover or prepare to evacuate during an emergency, but often have trouble convincing the men...
FEMA Chief Long to Leave Agency February 13, 2019 By Jennifer Jacobs and Christopher Flavelle Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Brock Long is leaving the agency he led through a record period of natural disasters...
Delaware DOI Working With FEMA to Fine-Tune Disaster Response May 4, 2018 The Delaware Department of Insurance (DOI) is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the next two weeks...
Disasters Affected 8% of U.S. Population in 2017, FEMA Notes in Review of Historic Year January 3, 2018 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) supported 59 major disaster declarations and 16 emergency declarations in 2017, a year during...
Willis Re Joins with Tech Firm, Measure, to Raise Drone Usage for Insurers February 2, 2016 Willis Re, the reinsurance business of Willis Towers Watson, announced a strategic partnership with technology company Measure to advance the...
Insurance Council of Australia Declares Sydney Storms a Catastrophe December 17, 2015 The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared a catastrophe after storms struck New South Wales, in particular Sydney’s eastern...
State Farm Seeks to Test Drone Use for Damage Response in Illinois October 27, 2014 State Farm insurance company is seeking federal approval to test drones in evaluating property damage and responding to natural disasters....