Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 — By Dec. 13, 2008, the three-month mark since Hurricane Ike’s landfall on Galveston Island, more than 730,000 insurance claims had been filed, a number that will continue to climb in the year ahead, the Texas Department of Insurance reported. By contrast, Hurricane Rita in 2005 generated about 95,000 homeowners insurance claims in Texas and Hurricane Dolly earlier in 2008 has generated about 50,000 claims to date.