The Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in Pennsylvania faces a cyberattack, highlighting the vulnerability of small water utilities to international cybersecurity threats.
Portions of the South are facing the increased threat of severe weather and tornadoes this time of year. We are in the period known as the ‘second tornado season’ for many residents in the south. The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) urges residents, particularly across the South and southern Plains to stay vigilant.
A Cross County woman whose home was destroyed by an EF3 tornado packing winds of 150 mph that swept through Wynne on March 31 has settled a lawsuit with her insurer for more than $1 million after she accused the company of offering her more than $200,000 less than her home was insured for following the storm.
Severe thunderstorm activity from June 11-15 caused $7 billion to $10 billion in insured losses, according to a report Monday from data and analytics company CoreLogic Inc. This loss estimate includes damage to residential, commercial, and industrial property, as well as automobiles, but excludes damage to infrastructure such as roads, utilities and governmental facilities.
A complaint filed this week in federal court by a Wynne woman whose home was destroyed March 31 by an EF-3 tornado that decimated much of the Cross County city claims that her insurance company undervalued the coverage on her home by more than $200,000.
Parts of the Midwest and South devastated by catastrophic tornadoes will have almost no time to recover before another round of dangerous storms takes aim at hard-hit areas.
New videos show scenes of devastation in the aftermath of powerful tornadoes that touched down in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas on Friday. At least eight tornadoes were confirmed by survey teams from the National Weather Service, and two of those have been rated an EF-3 with winds near 160 mph.
Although spring storms leave quite an impression on the Arkansas imagination, the National Weather Service reports that the state typically experiences a secondary severe weather season in the fall or early winter -- two years out of every three.
Multiple significant tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma and adjacent north Texas late Wednesday, destroying structures while storm chasers jammed roadways. Hail as large as baseballs and torrential rain also accompanied the storms, which brought dozens of reports of flooding in eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas.
After back-to-back tornado outbreaks two weeks in a row, last month set the record for most tornado reports during the month of March. As of Friday morning, the current preliminary number was 233 tornado reports, breaking the record of 225 reports in 2012, with records going back to the year 2000.
An Alexandria, Louisiana, physician pleaded guilty Tuesday to having conspired to violate three different federal statutes in connection with a kickback scheme to defraud both federal and private workers compensation insurers, according to an announcement by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Western District of Arkansas.
A line of severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight killing at least two in the Florida Panhandle, toppling trees and power lines and leaving homes and businesses damaged as the vast weather front raced across several states.
Offering her big smiles and pats on the shoulder as they passed around slices of cake, staff at a local branch office of Belle Point Insurance celebrated employee Kathy Vershbow for her 40 steadfast years of being unable to retire, sources confirmed Wednesday.
The monster tornado that destroyed the town of Mayfield, Ky., during last weekend’s deadly outbreak in the Midwest and Southeast may have traversed four states without ever lifting off the ground.
