Funding from the federal government is paving a path toward revolutionizing the modeling of storm surge, a Texas University scientist told members of a Senate committee at a hearing held Monday.
Storm surge property damage could top $300 billion in 10 major U.S. cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, with most at-risk homes in the threatened areas outside of current FEMA flood zones, according to a study by CoreLogic, a leading provider of consumer, financial and property information and business...
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Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the behemoth state-run property insurer, has a reputation that reaches far beyond Floridas shores. Leaders from neighboring coastal states call it Floridas folly to grow what is, essentially, socialized property insurance.
Karen Clark & Co. has issued its third annual report on the performance of three near-term catastrophe models, which concludes that they have "significantly overestimated" losses during the five-year period.