State officials say settlements have been reached with nine New Jersey businesses accused of price gouging following Superstorm Sandy. Consumer Affairs officials say the state will get $437,538 in penalties, fees and consumer restitution under the settlements announced Wednesday. Four …
Two women from Long Island and a man from North Carolina have been arrested on fraud charges for falsely collecting Superstorm Sandy disaster relief funds. Federal prosecutors say 37-year-old Jena Sowinski, of Merrick, and 31-year-old Tselane Gibbs, of Valley Stream, …
Karen Clark & Company (KCC), independent experts in catastrophe risk, catastrophe models and catastrophe risk management, issued a report in conjunction with the one-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy that estimates $300 billion of property value in Sandy’s flood footprint and …
A year after Superstorm Sandy drove Deborah Dinan from her Milford home, she lives above a loud bar and is often reduced to tears as she struggles to return to her flood ravaged home. Dinan, a 59-year-old former nurse on …
Federal officials on Monday unveiled plans for a second round of Superstorm Sandy disaster relief totaling $5 billion for five states and New York City, and they pledged that the pace of spending would pick up after a slow start. …
While damages as a result of Superstorm Sandy have been tallied for auto, home and business losses, art losses remain unquantifiable, according to Filippi Guerrini-Maraldi, head of Fine Art at RK Harrison Insurance Services in London. That’s because many works …
The mountain dwellers of far western Maryland know a lot about snow, but a crippling blizzard spawned last year by Superstorm Sandy taught them a painful lesson in emergency preparedness. Scattershot planning and outdated communications gear caused confusion and delays …
Gov. Chris Christie says he understands victims’ frustrations a year after Superstorm Sandy but maintains that his administration isn’t to blame for delays in aid reaching victims. In an interview with The Associated Press as the anniversary of the Oct. …
Superstorm Sandy set several records and was unusual in even more ways. Here are 12 strange weather features of Sandy: 1. SIZE: With tropical-storm-force winds that extended for 1,000 miles, Sandy was the largest Atlantic system on record. However, meteorologists …
D.A. Gohil’s family is still rebuilding its convenience store business in Nicholas County, a year after Superstorm Sandy buried parts of West Virginia in wet, heavy snow that collapsed roofs and pulled down power lines. The thick snow from the …