Connecticut is negotiating with several insurance companies to waive hurricane policy deductibles for coastal homeowners whose properties were damaged or destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday. More than 163,000 electric customers in the state remained …
North Carolina’s governor says preliminary losses from Hurricane Irene now top $400 million in North Carolina. Gov. Beverly Perdue said Friday that agricultural losses represent the bulk of the figure, at more than $320 million. They’re followed by local government …
Floodwaters triggered when Tropical Storm Irene tore through the East Coast nearly a week ago have inundated farmland in the Connecticut River Valley, ruining crops in Connecticut and Massachusetts just before harvest and washing away valuable topsoil. In Rocky Hill, …
Hurricane Irene’s brush with the South Carolina coast last week caused less than $5 million in insured damage, an insurance industry spokesman said Wednesday. Russ Dubisky, the executive director of the South Carolina Insurance News Service, said its member companies …
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he expects damage in the state from Tropical Storm Irene to total $1 billion. He spoke Wednesday in Prattsville, a Catskills Mountain community that like many others was hard hit by the torrential rains …
As the water recedes from Hurricane Irene, lawyers are expecting disputes over insurance coverage to pour in. The biggest fights will stem from arguments over property damage and whether it resulted from wind or water, legal experts said. Similar questions …
East Carolina University officials estimate that damage to the campus caused by Hurricane Irene could reach $1 million. Vice chancellor for finance and administration Rick Niswander said the figure is an early estimate and could change. Irene left downed trees, …
Far from the beach towns that took Hurricane Irene’s first hit, the storm inflicted some of its worst damage on inland farms as crops were pummeled by wind, scalded by salt spray and submerged by floodwaters. Some farmers are reporting …
Some federal money pledged to tornado-ravaged Joplin and other disaster sites is being diverted to help victims of Hurricane Irene. Bob Josephson of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday that FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund is running low. He says …
Washington’s never-ending budget battle threatened to snarl the recovery from Hurricane Irene as a top Republican said Monday that any federal aid will have to be offset by spending cuts elsewhere. “Yes there’s a federal role, yes we’re going to …