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Hurricane Milton Has Reshaped Storm Science Even Before Making Landfall
Long after the winds subside and the hard work of rebuilding begins, scientists responsible for predicting hurricanes will continue to replay Hurricane Milton over and over again. They'll focus on ...
Court Orders Start to Expose ‘Startling’ Data on Litigation Funding Sources
There is no federal law that requires the disclosure of litigation funding agreements in court cases, but some disturbing insight has been found in individual jurisdictions that have rules to ...
Small Track Changes Drive $70B+ Swing in Milton Insured Loss Estimates
Insured losses from Hurricane Milton could sit anywhere within a $70-plus-billion range extending from $9 billion to $85 billion, experts from CoreLogic said yesterday afternoon, at least nine hours ...
Federal Flood Maps Are No Match for Florida’s Double Hurricane
Even before the second megastorm in as many weeks brings devastating floodwaters to the Southeast U.S., it's already clear that federal flood-risk maps underpinning decisions by millions of American ...
Verisk Estimates Up to $11B in Insured Losses From Hurricane Helene
The Extreme Event Solutions group at Verisk estimates insured losses due to wind, storm surge and flood in the U.S. for Hurricane Helene will range between $6 billion to $11 billion. This figure does ...
Experts Predict Impacts of $20-$25B+ Milton Hit to Insurers, Reinsurers
A wide cone of uncertainty surrounds insurance experts' pre-landfall predictions about the state of the industry that will prevail in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, with most viewing it as a $20 ...
U.S. P/C Insurers’ See Slump in Shares as Hurricane Season Losses Mount
U.S. property and casualty insurance stocks tanked on Monday after Hurricane Milton intensified into a category 4 storm on its path towards Florida's western coast, marking yet another costly ...
Hurricane Milton Barrels Toward Florida With 165 MPH Winds
Milton, the Atlantic's strongest hurricane this year, is set to approach the Florida peninsula as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, bearing down on a region still struggling to recover from Helene's ...