Studies Map Climate Change Driven Storm Surge Down to Your Zip Code
We were on the front page of the New York Times earlier this week. We wish! Our marketing department has not cracked that nut yet. Not so the folks at Climate Central. Their press release about their...
View ArticleOpening Day: CAT Bonds, Climate Change and the 2012 Hurricane Season
Tomorrow is June 1, the official start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season, which is predicted by NOAA to be near normal. It comes almost as an afterthought this year because already we have had two...
View ArticleClimate Change Challenges the Republican Convention
When the Republican National Committee made the decision to call off Day 1 of the Republican Convention as Hurricane Isaac threatened the Gulf littoral, some thought it was an appropriate comeuppance...
View ArticleStorm Surge in Your Lobby: You Should Have Been Thinking About Hurricane...
12 feet. Water that deep comfortably inundates the front office's front door and floats the boss's desk. And that is the predicted maximum storm surge for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi as...
View ArticleTough Love: Florida Continues to Improve Its Hurricane Coverage But Will It...
We have been rather tough on Florida and its insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, over the years (not that they pay any attention to climatelawyers.com). But Citizens has...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Deductibles: Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy is Not a Hurricane
You've just weathered a post-tropical cyclone. Your garage is flattened. Do you have a hurricane deductible? Or will your regular deductible apply? The answer can be worth thousands of dollars as a...
View ArticleWill Climate Change Considerations Affect Rebuilding After Sandy? The Short...
West Virginia today and Virginia yesterday became the seventh and eighth states to obtain the benefits of a federal Major Disaster Declaration in connection with Superstorm Sandy. They follow New...
View ArticleEven if You Can't Insure the End of Days, You Can Insure Some of the Effects...
Today is the day the world ended. But it didn’t. The spin put by some on the Mayan calendar didn’t pan out and the world continued. Here in Baltimore we didn’t buy into the predictions, but just in...
View ArticleTop 6 at 12: Highlights of the Top Climate Change Stories in the Second Half...
2012 has drawn to a close. We chronicle here six of the most significant stories on the climate change front in the last six months. For those looking for hope that government is taking action to...
View ArticleCall for Comments on the Third National Climate Assessment
The draft “National Assessment of Supply Chain and Other Developing Risks” was issued just last month. It outlined increasing threats to infrastructure, food and water supplies, air quality, national...
View ArticleWho Says Catastrophe Bond Payouts Are Not Correlated With the Stock Market?
Here is some food for thought: Catastrophe bond payouts are correlated with climate change. Climate change is correlated with stock market returns. Therefore catastrophe bond payouts are correlated...
View ArticleHarvey Cedars v. Karan: Condemnation at the Shore and the Evolution of the...
If you were a municipality that had to take action and condemn private property for the public good to avert disaster, before you got to court you would be particularly pleased to be able to say, "See,...
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Rising Sea Levels and Prohibited "Takings" - A Different Sort of Climate...
A little noted anniversary passed this past week. The odd 2009 storm, Nor’Ida (the progeny of a nor’easter and a hurricane), swept along the east coast pounding some areas with record storm surge...
View ArticleFloods in Texas, Flood Mapping, Flood Dollars
Floods on the Rio Blanco these past few days demonstrate the link to climate change, but not in the way you think. It was a horrible Memorial Day weekend in Hays County, Texas. At least three people...
View ArticleHouston Flooding and Lawyers - A Climate Change Informed View
"After a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, litigation often follows to determine who will pay for the consequences." Mariner Energy, Inc. v. Devon Energy Prod. Co., 690 F. Supp. 2d 558 (S.D. Tex....
View Article"I believe in science." And then what?
I am sure you heard Hillary explain last night why she is going to take action on climate change. "I believe in science." We weren’t so articulate when we counseled last week to “Go to the Data,” but...
View ArticleExperts and Baseball-Sized Hail Insurance Claims – a View from the Plains
There were severe storms across the plains recently. “Residents of Wellington, Texas are sharing pictures of extremely large, baseball-sized hail on social media.” For those of us in the East, we are...
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