U.S. Hurricane Victims Want Improved Disaster Relief, With Faster Money, Less Red Tape October 31, 2022 By Wayne Parry Survivors of storms that pounded several U.S. states say the nation’s disaster aid system is broken and that they want...
Small Businesses Learn Hard Lessons When They Don’t Prepare for Disaster August 2, 2019 By Joyce M. Rosenberg When Hurricane Irma hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, Carlos Melendez couldn’t contact the staffers or customers of his San...
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...
Judge Says FEMA Can End Motel Payments for Hurricane Maria Evacuees August 30, 2018 A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request to block the U.S. government from cutting off aid to hundreds of...
Hurricane Maria Likely Killed 1,139, Far More Than Government Tally: Penn State Study August 6, 2018 By Jonathan Levin Some 1,139 people are likely to have perished after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September, far more than the...
N.Y. Updates Insurance Company Disaster Response, Recovery Plan Requirements April 25, 2018 The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued updated disaster response and recovery plan requirements for all insurance...
Natural Disasters Cost Insurers a Record $144 Billion in 2017: Swiss Re’s sigma April 10, 2018 Global insured losses from natural catastrophes were US$144 billion in 2017, the highest-ever recorded in a single year, according to...
2017’s Natural Hazards and the Destruction They Brought: CoreLogic January 25, 2018 CoreLogic’s annual Natural Hazard Risk Summary and Analysis shows that 2017 was a year of relatively average activity for most...
2017 ‘One of Worst’ for U.S. Weather with 15 Events Costing $1 Billion or More December 29, 2017 By Jim Efstathiou Jr. and Brian K. Sullivan In the year that President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris accord and downplayed global warming as a security...
2017 Hurricane Season Ranks as Costliest Ever for U.S. November 28, 2017 By Brian K. Sullivan This year’s U.S. Atlantic hurricane season is officially the most expensive ever, racking up $202.6 billion in damages since the...