Heavy rains combined with annual King Tides last weekend to flood some Miami Beach streets along with a few other barrier beach communities northward through Jacksonville. Also making flood news this week: FEMA Group Flood Policies provided …
So the question remains, how can we make flood insurance more available and affordable to more homeowners? On the heels of a new national private flood insurance model act, South Carolina has become the latest state …
As damage estimates are tallied from Friday’s Hurricane Delta, our thoughts and prayers are with those in Louisiana and Mississippi who were caught in the storm’s path – the ninth named Atlantic storm to …
There are several important flood insurance stories to report this week. A private flood insurance model act was passed over this weekend, Congress is prepared to extend the National Flood Insurance Program for a full year, and …
The popular real estate website Realtor.com has done a great public service by recently adding flood risk to its listing of homes across the nation – both those currently for sale and those off the …
Hurricane Isaias two weeks ago caused significant flooding in Pennsylvania and with it, stories of homeowners caught off-guard and without flood insurance to cover the damage. A new national survey shows residents significantly underestimate their exposure …
There’s another report that came out this week quantifying the under-classification and reporting of high-risk flood properties here in Florida and in the United States. But this one has an interesting addition – a property-specific look-up …
For years, FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been asking Congress for more resources, not the least of which, for help handling the back-to-back-to-back big disaster years of 2017 through 2019. So it’s no surprise to hear …
The federal Office of the Flood Insurance Advocate is out with its annual report on common issues of frustration encountered by customers of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Meanwhile, the National …
The effort to export and promote Florida’s progressive private flood insurance regulation to the rest of the country continues. A Private Flood Insurance Model Act that has been struggling to find consensus will be discussed …
