Topic
Hurricanes
471 published works
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
House Hearing on Hurricane Issues on 6/12/2007
By Chip Merlin
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight have scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, June 12, 2007 to discuss the…
Louisiana Law Blog
Legislature Adopts Master Plan for Coastal Restoration and Hurricane Protection
By Erich Rapp
On June 1, 2007, the Louisiana Legislature unanimously passed the state's first comprehensive master plan for coastal restoration and hurricane protection. In response, the governor has asked the legislature to…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Lakeshore Club Damage Appraised At $40 Million
By Chip Merlin
Since the centers of three hurricanes passed virtually overhead in 2004, residents of the sprawling Lakeshore Club Villas condominium complex have lived in a sort of insurance-induced purgatory. Lakeshore's insurer,…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Fla. Plaintiffs Settle with State Farm on Hurricane Damaged Screen Enclosures
By Chip Merlin
A Broward County Court has approved a class action settlement on behalf of more than 12,000 State Farm Insurance policyholders in Florida who will receive 100 percent of the damages…
PropertyProf Blog
Dehring and Halek on Building Codes and Hurricane Damage
By propertyprof
Carolyn A. Dehring and Martin Halek (both of the University of Georgia) have posted Do Coastal Building Codes Mitigate Hurricane Damage to Residential Property? on SSRN. Here's the abstract:In this…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Confrence Call on Katrina Fallout
The National Immigration Law Center has scheduled a national conference call for Thursday, November 3 at 9:30 PDT/12:30 EDT. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the reconstruction efforts, have had a…
Louisiana Law Blog
Louisiana Contracts and the Doctrine of Impossibility
By Kean Miller
By the Kean Miller Business Law Team Many businesses in Louisiana are now assessing how Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita have affected and will continue to affect their contracts with…
Texas Estate Planning and Probate Law
Waiting Out Hurricane Rita
As you know, the Houston and Southeast Texas area are hunkering down for what is right now a Category 3 hurricane. In light of that, my office has been closed…
Colorado Homeowners Association Law
Hurricane Evacuees Temporarily Shut Out Of Florida HOA
By Winzenburg, Leff, Purvis & Payne, LLP
Recently, community associations received some bad press in the wake of hurricane Katrina. I found this article to be interesting. The Association eventually bowed to the pressure as shown in…
Louisiana Law Blog
Unemployment Benefits for Hurricane Victims
By Kean Miller
The Louisiana Department of Labor has issued a notice advising of its efforts to make sure that all qualified UI recipients can file their claims and receive their checks. From…