It was a dark and stormy night. That may be a hackneyed old joke, but it's a perfect description of the night a major storm hit our home and I had to put the lessons I learned from covering risk
Claims News Service, May 25, 3:12 p.m. EDT -- A report issued yesterday from the Kansas Department of Insurance estimates that insured property losses from a devastating tornado on May 4, 2007, will
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger offered praise for the insurance industry's payment of over $80 million in claims in the wake of a devastating tornado that struck the state earlier this mo
WASHINGTON--Florida's Republican Gov. Charles Crist said in a television interview yesterday that he intends to use his state's move to an earlier primary election date to pressure presidential candid
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So far, this year's weather related losses have been marked by killer tornadoes, wild fires in Florida and California, flooding in the Mid-West and the first named storm of the season--not a good sign
As governor of Kansas, Ms. Sebelius gained national attention for her assertion earlier this week that shortages of equipment and personnel to deal in the aftermath of the tornado that struck her stat
Tornadoes and related weather events have caused approximately 56 percent of all insured catastrophe losses in the United States in any given year, while hurricanes and earthquakes, on average, tend t
According to reports, more than 75 tornadoes touched down in the middle of the country, causing destruction that affected Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South Dakota on Friday evening and
I.I.I. said thousands of homes, businesses and vehicles were destroyed by the twister that sent 205-mph winds through the town of Greensburg, Kan. The Oklahoma town of Sweetwater, about 225 miles sout