Photo courtesy of Robert A. Ball The mother of a Texas man who was killed when his vehicle collided with an SUV driven by a storm-chasing television crew has filed a $125 million lawsuit against The Weather Channel. The suit …
The same weather pattern that made the West warm and dry and the Northeast cold and snowy has contributed to keeping the rest of the U.S. relatively free of tornadoes so far this year. In the first two months of …
When New York Times best-selling author Jenna Blum published her second book, “The Storm Chasers,” readers on the East Coast were lavish with praise. What a brilliant piece of imagination, they told her, to have people pile into vans and …
Everyone is talking about the roof risk problem. It is the hot topic among both insurance and reinsurance carriers, as well as vendors. BuildFax conducted interviews with industry experts ─ from the C-suite to actuaries, underwriters to adjusters, to inspectors …
The head of a group that represents Kansas emergency responders says it’s time to consider rules for storm chasers in the wake of the deaths of three professional chasers in Oklahoma. Three veteran chasers were killed Friday when a tornado …
Insured thunderstorm losses are much higher than they have ever been, and there is no sign that they will return to lower levels any time soon. Moreover, the current state of the insurance industry—from the focus on heavy marketing to …
Eighteen seconds. That’s how long it took storm chaser Jeff Piotrowski to stop and tell a law enforcement officer in Joplin, Mo., that a massive tornado was moments away from striking the eastern edge of the city. The report was …