U.K. insurers may face claims totaling as much as 1.5 billion pounds ($2.2 billion) from businesses and homeowners for damage caused by two storms this month, according to consultant KPMG LLP. Heavy rain and flooding is estimated to have caused …
Hundreds more people were told to leave their homes in northern England Sunday as Prime Minister David Cameron said more troops would be deployed to protect peoples’ lives and property after weeks of heavy rainfall caused widespread flooding. Cameron said …
The flood risk for London commuter towns, many of which are already inundated, will rise in the coming days as more rain and dangerous winds sweep Britain. The River Thames is approaching peak levels west of London as more downpours …
The recent flooding the United Kingdom experienced last month, which killed at least four people and damaged more than 1,100 homes, raised flood insurance losses there to around $1.6 billion for 2012, making it the costliest flood year since 2007, …