A state of emergency has been declared in Virginia Beach, Virginia, after an EF3 tornado hit the city. The tornado struck the Great Neck area of the city around 6 p.m. on Sunday, causing significant damage.

As inflation continues to run rampant throughout the United States economy, we have all experienced the effects of supply chain impediments, labor shortages, and increased costs in our daily personal lives. From higher prices at the pump to the cost of milk and eggs, everything is more expensive.

The Mississippi state insurance department has reported that insurance losses from the March tornado that swept through parts of Mississippi have reached nearly $100 million, with uninsured losses expected to surpass this figure.

St. Charles Parish in Louisiana has sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) over the new Flood Risk Rating 2.0 that went into effect in October 2021.

Homeowners in Florida should prepare for yet another increase in their insurance premiums as more insurers are leaving or failing in the state.

Paul Richard Massey, a resident of West Virginia, recently pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges. Massey, who worked as a claims adjuster for Allstate Insurance Company from 2015 to June 2019, confessed to issuing fraudulent payments to a business that he owns.

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently announced at a congressional hearing that the new federal system for setting flood insurance premiums, Risk Rating 2.0, requires more adjustments than anticipated.

Earthquakes cause $14.7 billion in damages and related losses on an annualized basis in the U.S., according to an updated estimate from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

FEMA has been doing its best when it comes to helping Arkansans recover from the March 31 tornado.

Tornadoes are becoming more frequent in populated parts of the United States and are often occurring as damaging clusters -- a development seen in recent deadly outbreaks from Alabama to Michigan.

Homes constructed in flood plains, storm surge zones, regions with declining water availability, and the wildfire-prone West are overvalued by hundreds of billions of dollars, recent studies suggest, creating a housing bubble that puts the U.S. financial system at risk.

The recent outbreak of severe weather that crossed a large swath of the country reaching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico on April 4 was responsible for more than 200 tornado reports, large hail, and hurricane force winds.

As home market volatility continues to stomp its way through this year, homeowners’ insurance rates will be rising even as the home values themselves drop, said a recent Insurify report called the 2023 Insuring the American Homeowner report.

Risk managers never sleep easy, nor do they take anything for granted. Charlene Schultson, the Executive Vice President Commercial, North America, for the Patriot Mutual Insurance Company, is no exception.