Mississippi Rising: considerations from a claims perspective

Taylor Coley, of Thomas Miller Americas, looks at the risk of major river flooding

The Mississippi River, the fourth longest river in the world, with a drainage basin stretching over 32 US states, has long been considered an enigma. As likely to move a poet’s heart as a shipowner’s ledger, all whose lives must touch the Mississippi have conceded her many titles fairly won: “mighty”, “the big muddy”, and the evocative, if unflattering, “old man”.