Mainers like to boast that they live in the nation’s most heavily forested state, but residents paid a heavy price...
Hurricanes News
Warning of another looming hurricane season, lawmakers including Florida Gov. Charlie Crist pleaded this month in Washington for a national...
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and state Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon on April 11 unveiled a joint legislative package...
The idea of a federal catastrophe program has been getting mixed reaction in Washington. The Bush Administration and key Republicans...
Some say private market insurance is sufficient, while others claim federal help is needed to solve a ‘national problem’ Two...
Katrina homeowners’ lawyers claim e-mails as evidence E-mails sent by officials of an engineering firm that assessed Hurricane Katrina claims...
Florida officials have developed a system to rate homes on their ability to withstand wind damage. The rating system —...
Homeowners on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast face another insurance rate hike in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. Mississippi insurance regulators this week approved...
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on nonlife reinsurers IPCRe Ltd. and...
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. will readjust claims for about 500 Mississippi policyholders whose homes were reduced to foundations by Hurricane...