Plus, the NOAA hurricane forecast and resilient home kudos
A bipartisan effort to speed up FEMA block grants emerges, NOAA releases its 2025 hurricane forecast, removal of NOAAs billion-dollar weather database raises concerns for insurance companies, and a new Florida …
Changes in preparation
With hurricane season upon us, Florida and other states wait, wondering exactly what FEMA’s new restructuring may mean for future disaster response. Cuts across the federal agency mean about 2,000 employees have been let go and many …
Many of our regular readers have gotten to know my passion for continuing to build a bridge between the heroes in the emergency management field and their counterparts in the property insurance industry. I was pleased to see that this …
Workers’ Comp to feel the risk, too
It may come as no surprise that states with the highest hurricane risk and that are suffering the highest number of COVID-19 cases might have an especially big problem if the two catastrophes …
New forms, processes
New catastrophe reporting forms for insurance companies doing business in Florida and new guidelines for disaster management in the coronavirus era are out, with some additional learning opportunities coming up this week for onboarding.
The Florida Office …
Flood Model Act progressing
With the start of the Atlantic Hurricane season a little more than two weeks away on June 1, we have some updates to share on storm season forecasts, new insurance catastrophe reporting forms, and the good …