Millennials More Likely to Buy Flood Insurance Than Baby Boomers June 4, 2019 Millennials — those born between 1981 and 1996— are nearly three times more likely to have purchased flood insurance than...
Heavy Rains Cause Houston-Area Flooding, Prompt Evacuations, Rescues May 9, 2019 Emergency responders in Texas rescued numerous people from rising floodwaters Tuesday as a strong storm battered the Houston area with...
AmWINS, The Flood Insurance Agency Launch Commercial Property Flood Product May 6, 2019 AmWINS Group, Inc., in conjunction with its recent acquisition of The Flood Insurance Agency (TFIA), has launched FloodFLEX, a new...
Catastrophe Insurer Palomar Announces IPO Pricing, Shares Rise 1st Day of Trading April 17, 2019 By Don Jergler La Jolla, Calif.-based Palomar Holdings Inc. this week announced the pricing of its initial public offering of its common stock...
Global Floods Cause $8B in Economic Losses During March: Aon Catastrophe Report April 10, 2019 Damage from flooding in March 2019 is estimated at US$8 billion from events across the globe, according to Aon’s “Global...
AM Best: Most Homes in Midwest States Uninsured for Flooding April 9, 2019 In a commentary on the recent Midwest flooding, AM Best said the states hit hardest by these floods — such...
New Texas Homeowners Policy From The Woodlands Insurance Includes Flood Coverage April 4, 2019 The Woodlands Insurance Co. (TWICO), located in The Woodlands, Texas, has launched a Texas homeowners policy that will include flood...
Louisiana Pledges $80M for Bayou Chene Floodgate April 3, 2019 Residents in six southeastern Louisiana parishes will get some relief from backwater flooding thanks to a new floodgate. Gov. John...
Omaha, Nebraska, Officials Reviewing Flood-Control Measures April 2, 2019 Officials in the Omaha, Nebraska, area are reevaluating the city’s flood-control measures, shortly after heavy rains caused dozens of counties...
Missouri, Kansas Residents Rush to Fill Sandbags as Floodwaters Move Downstream March 22, 2019 By Karen Dillon Floodwaters that devastated swaths of Nebraska and Iowa rolled downstream on Thursday, swamping more Midwestern farmland as waterfront communities in...