Cities around the Dallas – Fort Worth area are reeling from a historic hail storm that pummelled the area Sunday night. The next morning, many residents woke to find hole-punched windows and dented roofs on their cars while others put up tarps over their roofs to prevent further damage. According to weather reports, cities like […]
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The Texas Department of Insurance has made several recommendations to the Texas legislature for the 2019 Texas legislative session. One such recommendation, in response to the massive amounts of flooding that occurred during 2017’s Hurricane Harvey, is a law that would require insurance carriers to “prominently disclose” if your property insurance does not include flood
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Hurricane Willa will make landfall off the coast of Southwest Mexico as a Catagory 3 hurricane with the cities of Mazatlán and popular vacation spot, Puerto Vallarta, in the path of the storm. With it, experts say that Hurricane Willa will have devastating winds and rain flooding. Earlier Monday, Hurricane Willa actually reached Catagory 5 winds, however,
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In the course of 24 hours, Hurricane Michael has grown into a historically dangerous Category 4 hurricane that will bring a life-threatening storm surge and winds of over 155 miles per hour, just shy of a category 5. Meteorologists now say that Michael will be the most powerful Hurricane the Florida panhandle has seen in a
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Hurricane Michael is expected to make landfall in Florida by Wednesday and will be a “dangerous” category 3 hurricane when it does. Officials at the National Hurricane Center say that Hurricane Michael “could produce three life-threatening hazards along portions of the northeastern Gulf Coast: storm surge, heavy rainfall, and hurricane-force winds” as experts predict that
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Meteorologists are keeping an eye on some tropical development in the Carribean Sea, currently named “Invest-95” that could potentially grow into a tropical depression, tropical storm, or this season’s next hurricane and head anywhere between the Rio Grande Valley and Houston. According to the National Hurricane Center, the tropical development is expected to move into
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TWIA’s board of directors, in a 5-4 vote, proposed a 10% hike in all residential and commercial policies for 2019 coverage. This proposed hike would affect 213,278 policyholders to date and, if approved by the Texas Commissioner of Insurance, the average premiums per policy would increase from $1,589 per year to $1,745. Residents of cities such
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It’s hard to imagine that it has already been one year since Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Southeast Texas coast. The entire country watched in horror as images of Harvey’s abominable destruction poured onto our television screens and all over social media. Cities like Rockport, Port Aransas, Aransas Pass, Ingleside all entirely destroyed, while
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Receiving an insurance claim denial letter in the mail is probably one of the more disheartening experiences a homeowner can face. You’ve just been through a traumatic storm event such as a hail storm, a hurricane, or a tornado that left your home in shambles. You did everything right; you’ve paid your monthly premiums on time and
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Stop us if you’ve seen this before: Your home was absolutely wrecked by a hailstorm, a hurricane, or a flood. Shortly after the storm, you call your insurance to open up a storm damage claim. A few days pass and an adjuster, after a number of reschedulings, has finally come by to inspect your house. You
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