‘Hail Protector’ Inventor Looks for Buy-in from Insurers July 26, 2019 By Jim Sams Mark Twain purportedly said, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” An electronics engineer who moved...
Hail Storms Are Getting More Expensive, and No One Is Sure Why June 17, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan In 2008, the year the stock market crashed and Barack Obama won the presidency, the U.S. was hit with a...
Wave of New Tech Firms Targeting Farms as Weather Wars Mount April 15, 2019 By Lydia Mulvany and Brian K. Sullivan When surprise hailstorms hit the 6,000 acres Trevor Scherman plants each year with peas, wheat, canola and lentils, his first...
Most Popular Claims Journal Articles of 2018 December 31, 2018 After highlighting the top 10 contributed articles and the top 10 videos/podcasts of 2018, we now look at the top...
Mexico Plane Crash May Have Hit Burst of Hail Before Crash August 3, 2018 A U.S. passenger aboard a flight that crashed on takeoff in northern Mexico said Wednesday that a strong burst of...
Colorado’s Front Range Provides Perfect Environment for Hail Formation May 22, 2017 By JOHN INGOLD, The Denver Post The largest hailstone ever recorded in America spent close to an hour aloft in a cloud growing to the size...
NWS: 4 Fast Facts About Hail March 3, 2017 A powerful storm system blew through a large swath of the nation’s midsection, spawning deadly tornadoes, blowing cars off roads...
Munich Re: 2016 Global Natural Catastrophe Losses Climb, Total $175B January 4, 2017 A number of devastating earthquakes and powerful storms made 2016 the costliest twelve months for natural catastrophe losses in the...
Bell and Smith Top Allstate’s List of Stormiest Texas Counties April 10, 2015 Texas storms affected more Allstate insured homes and cars in Bell county than any other part of the state over...
Legislative Focus for Texas Windstorm Insurer: Funding, Depopulation January 29, 2015 The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the state-created insurer that provides property coverage for wind and hail in 14 coastal counties...