Evacuation orders are being given in the Florida Keys as Monroe County emergency managers prepare for Hurricane Irma. Key West International Airport will close Wednesday night, cancelling all commercial flights until further notice.
Salvage efforts continued on Monday to remove a sunken drydock in an industrial portion of the Houston Ship Channel, home to major oil refineries and petrochemical plants, officials said.
Tropical Storm Harvey made a second landfall just west of Cameron, La., early Wednesday, although any flooding was expected to be nowhere near levels that have devastated this battered city, forecasters said.
A weather system off Africa that’s being monitored by the National Hurricane Center is likely to develop as it approaches the eastern Atlantic Ocean, forecasters said Tuesday.
Swollen rivers in east Texas aren’t expected to crest until later this week, but federal officials are already predicting Tropical Storm Harvey will drive 30,000 people into shelters and spur 450,000 victims to seek some sort of disaster assistance.
A Travelers Cos. Inc. unit is not obligated to provide coverage in an incident in which carbon monoxide that flowed from a recreational fishing boat’s engine killed two men and injured a third, because of its policy’s pollution exclusion, says a federal appeals court, in affirming a lower court ruling.
The unsolved deaths of Nathan Carman’s mother and grandfather are spooking witnesses from an insurance company that’s fighting him in court over his $85,000 claim for the boat that disappeared with his mom.
The pilot of a Beech Baron involved in a highly publicized ditching in the Gulf of Mexico in 2012 has been indicted for insurance fraud. Theodore Wright and two other men, Shane Gordon and Raymond Fosdick, have been charged with several counts as part of a larger investigation that also involved an old Citation, an exotic car and a boat.
With over 90% of the world’s trade being carried by sea, insurance industry analysts warn that the shipping industry is a prime target for cyber attack. Last month, a division of Danish transport company A.P. Moller-Maersk was hit by a cyber attack that affected several port terminals, including in the United States, India, Spain and the Netherlands.
Three boats were destroyed and one severely damaged in an early morning fire Sunday at Grand Isle Marina. Officials said a guard in a nearby security booth noticed fire on a boat and alerted the sleeping occupants, who were able to jump off the front of the boat.
Rescue crews took six people to the hospital after, officials said, a fishing boat crashed into a dock near Normandy Shores, injuring most of the passengers on board, Saturday evening.
Fire broke out at Otter Creek Marina early Tuesday morning, officials said, impacting several boats and a garage. Five boats from 18 to 30 feet long were involved, in addition to a garage, he reported, noting all of the boats were dry docked.
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has cautioned Australian insurance companies, businesses and residents that the damage from Cyclone Debbie is extensive and will be costly. In fact, the ICA declared it a catastrophe.
More than 350 troop- and family owned vehicles may have been damaged in a cargo ship fire last month, Defense Department officials said Tuesday. The M/V Honor, operated by American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier, caught fire late Feb. 23 as it left Southampton, United Kingdom, on its way to the U.S.
