Superstorm Sandy News
RenaissanceRe to Host Forum Addressing Lessons Learned from Superstorm Sandy
Catastrophe reinsurer RenaissanceRe is hosting approximately 150 leading environmentalists, policymakers, scientists and insurance industry experts at a forum to discuss the recovery of lower ...
RMS Reflects on the 2014 Catastrophe Risk Landscape
For the insurance industry, 2014 was not a year of big losses. However, look more closely and you will see a string of near misses and important reminders of the forces that can wreak destruction and ...
PCI’s Griffin Testifies on Lessons Learned After Sandy
Don Griffin, vice president of personal lines at the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), testified Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs ...
Sandy Facts ‘n Figures
Superstorm Sandy made landfall as a post-tropical cyclone on the U.S. East Coast October 29, 2012 after cutting a destructive path through the Bahamas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica ...
A Year After Sandy, Rebuilding Continues in Storm-Hit Towns
A year after Superstorm Sandy inundated the East Coast with record flooding that left 159 people dead, residents of the hard-hit New Jersey shore still have a ways to go in rebuilding damaged ...
States Hit by Sandy to Get Next $5B of Recovery Funding
Federal officials on Monday unveiled plans for a second round of Superstorm Sandy disaster relief totaling $5 billion for five states and New York City, and they pledged that the pace of spending ...
A Year After Sandy, a Slow Recovery for Thousands
A year after Superstorm Sandy catastrophically flooded hundreds of miles of eastern U.S. coastline, thousands of people still trying to fix their soaked and surf-battered homes are being stymied by ...
New Jersey Boardwalk Fire Linked to Sandy-Damaged Wiring
The massive fire that destroyed part of a Jersey Shore boardwalk and dozens of businesses began accidentally in wiring damaged by Superstorm Sandy—and should prompt coastal property owners to ...