Texas Braces for Violent Weather in Wake of Recent Deadly Storms May 28, 2024 By Brian K. Sullivan Nearly 11 million people in the heart of Texas, including Austin, Fort Worth and Dallas, face an enhanced threat of...
NOAA Chimes in With Prediction of Above-Average Atlantic Hurricane Season May 24, 2024 By Chad Hemenway The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an 85% chance of an above-average Atlantic hurricane season, with up to...
TransUnion: Auto Insurance Shopping Hit New High in Q1 2024 May 22, 2024 The number of U.S. consumers who shopped for auto insurance in rose in the first quarter, largely driven by consumers...
Central U.S. States Brace for Possible Severe Storms: Weather Watch May 21, 2024 By Brian K. Sullivan There is a moderate risk — the second highest — of severe thunderstorms across parts of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and...
Florida’s 125% Surge in Property-Insurance Bills Sows Havoc May 21, 2024 By Lauren Coleman-Lochner and Melina Chalkia For Filicia Porter, the insurance bills were the final straw. They’d been climbing steeply for her assisted-living business as Florida...
Houston Windstorm Causes Preliminary Economic Loss of $5-7B: AccuWeather May 20, 2024 By Ezra Amacher The destructive windstorm that blew out windows in downtown Houston and left hundreds of thousands of southeast Texas residents without...
NICB: Contractor Fraud Costs U.S. Residents Billions Yearly May 20, 2024 With 28 separate natural disaster events costing at least $1 billion and totaling more than $93 billion in catastrophe losses,...
Florida’s Home Insurance Industry May Be Worse Than Anyone Realizes April 24, 2024 By Leslie Kaufman Seven property insurers in Florida went bankrupt in 2021 and 2022. The bankruptcies left thousands of homeowners scrambling to get...
Survey Shows Majority of Florida, California Homeowners Seeing Higher Insurance Costs April 19, 2024 Few people in Florida and California will be surprises to hear that the majority of homeowners in those states have...
Wildfires Are Upending Some of the Safest Bets on Wall Street April 17, 2024 By Olivia Raimonde and Mark Chediak When the Texas Panhandle went up in flames this winter, the news spread fast on Wall Street. An electric utility...