Hauswirth & Sons Insurance

I feel bad that we have so many friends in town that share the same name as a recent Hurricane that stopped by the east coast on her way north, but….I did not name that now infamous lady! So let me first say to my clients and friends also named Irene that any reference to [...]

Today begins the official 2011 hurricane season and all that is involved.  Needless to say, there are predictions of increased activity and at the same time Congress is still wondering what to do with flood insurance.  My article is about current flood changes already in the works. Suffice it to say that our weather patterns [...]

President Obama late Thursday signed into law legislation extending the National Flood Insurance Program–averting what would have been another shutdown of the program. The law will extend the NFIP until September 30, 2011. This extension means that property owners across the country who need flood insurance coverage will continue to be able to obtain it [...]

As insurance and real estate agents and homeowners feared, Congress left Washington on March 26 without extending the National Flood Insurance Program. Congress adjourned until April 12 after failing to agree on an unemployment benefits bill that included a provision with an extension of the NFIP. As a result, the federal flood insurance program’s authority [...]

On December 9, 2009, Dr. William Gray of Colorado State University, the venerable prophet of “storm season doom and gloom”, released his predictions for the 2010 Hurricane Season: Forecasting 16 named storms, 6-8 smaller hurricanes and 3-5 major hurricanes. As we start the 2010 year, our weather patterns along the east coast have been anything [...]