The federal flood insurance program faces yet another shutdown at month’s end, a new bill in Congress would end the penalty for switching to private flood insurance, and Hurricane Melissa data …
While the longest government shutdown in US history has finally ended, there are still issues reverberating throughout many industries. Particularly in low-lying Florida, federal flood insurance coverage lapses from the shutdown left many …
The federal shutdown has sweeping effects on FEMA, the federal flood insurance program lapse is impacting home sales, while Florida’s Congressmen continue the push for long-term reforms to that program with two new bills requiring …
Last Thursday, the US Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing entitled, “Reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP): Local Perspectives on Challenges and Solutions.” This is the latest look at the …
Sea level rise could eventually impact one-million Florida buildings by the turn of the next century, how Florida is tackling flood resilience with new legislation, plus a new reauthorization bill for the National Flood Insurance …
Local officials decide against direct payments to households impacted by the historic April Broward County flooding, the National Flood Insurance Program is again pitching a plan for multi-year reauthorization, and while Congress wants …
FEMA is proposing what many are describing as the most dramatic changes in the 54-year history of its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). It recently submitted a long-term reauthorization proposal to Congress that tries …
Congressional hearings got underway recently on long-term reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and on what, if any, guidance Congress should give to FEMA on the NFIP’s new Risk Rating 2.0 pricing program set …
Congress is gearing up for its annual effort to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and early proposals call for limiting rate increases on federal flood insurance. Meanwhile, a new report suggests it will take …
So, what are we to do about the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which still provides about 95% of the flood policies in the U.S.? The federal program is coming …
