Natural Disasters News

If your car is submerged due to flooding, don’t try to start it, because water getting into the engine can cause further damage, and this might not be covered by your insurance.Home insurance policy will compensate you for damages caused to the structure of your house due to the cyclone and flooding.

Insurers and re-insurers need to team up with governments, community and tech entities

Again, large parts of India face calamitous floods. The frequency of such disasters is on the rise. How disastrous they prove, however, would depend on how prepared we are

Finance minister Arun Jaitley says it was important to find a well-thought out mechanism on fund-raising for natural disasters as it would have long-term implications

The survey finds that individuals in districts with higher earthquake risk are more religious than those living in areas with lower earthquake risk

From setting up crisis management teams to signing up with the right non-profits, here are some things companies can do when a natural disaster strikes

Cash transfers to poor in the Philippines led to a spike in local prices of protein-rich food, adversely impacting the children of non-poor households which did not receive cash

The mudslides occured on Tuesday after heavy rains soaked the area near Montecito in California

The team, headed by home ministry official Vipin Mallik, will visit fishing villages in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in three groups to assess damage caused by Cyclone Ockhi

Insuring against weather natural disasters could reach unaffordable levels and the potential damage is so unpredictable it may be impossible to modelan unacceptable risk to insurers