Thirty-seven percent of Texans say Lone Star State spring storms scare them, and more than a third say they feel the weather is getting worse year after year, according to a new survey by Allstate Insurance Co. The number of …
Colorado now ranks among the top 10 for the highest share of homeowners insurance claims paid out due to catastrophes. The Insurance Research Council says catastrophes triggered only 26 percent of the claims made on homeowner policies from 1997 to …
The Texas Department of Insurance is declaring “War on Hail” with a symposium to be held in Irving on Nov. 27. The department noted that Texas leads the nation in hailstorm damage. In 2011, insured residential losses statewide topped $1.7 …
New insurance claim estimates from the hail, wind and flooding that wreaked havoc on June 6 from South Denver down to Colorado Springs and again on June 7 in Northern Colorado and the Eastern Plains made it the state’s fourth …
The number of insurance claims resulting from the damaging hail storm that struck the St. Louis region in late April could top 100,000. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the region’s two largest insurance companies alone, State Farm and American …
The impact of last weekend’s storm in St. Louis is still being felt as thousands of owners of homes and cars continue to make, or await, repairs. Hail the size of baseballs, even softballs, fell in some parts of the …
Residents living north of Corpus Christi in the Portland/Gregory communities are in the process of drying out following a 15-inch rainfall on April 16. Gregory, with a population of 2,500, reported 80 percent of its homes flooded from the storm. …
Governor Mary Fallin has declared a State of Emergency for 12 Oklahoma counties due to tornadoes, severe storms, straight line winds and flooding that began on April 13. The counties included in the declaration are: Alfalfa, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Ellis, …
Maintenance crews worked on April 12 to clear roads after a storm dumped several inches of hail on parts of the Texas Panhandle, trapping motorists in muddy drifts that were waist-to-shoulder high. The storm left so much hail in its …
Loss estimates from the widespread tornado, high wind and hail storm activity in the Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth area on April 3 are approaching $300 million, said one insurance industry spokesperson. That number is expected to increase as adjusters continue to reach …
