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10 Former FEMA director promotes mediation

Jul 24 2006 // Says feds, state governments should work together10 W. Va. Insurance Commission cracks down 2,000 employers without workers’ comp targeted11 FAIA CAT team volunteers honoredProvided assistance to Miss. agents after...

News Currents

Jul 24 2006 // Former FEMA director promotes state, federal disaster mediationFederal and state governments need to work with insurance companies to sponsor disaster mediation programs before something happens, before people who have...

Former FEMA director promotes state, federal disaster mediation

Jul 24 2006 // Federal and state governments need to work with insurance companies to sponsor disaster mediation programs before something happens — before people who have worked all their lives for everything they have, all of a...

Former FEMA director promotes state, federal disaster mediation

Jul 24 2006 // Federal and state governments need to work with insurance companies to sponsor disaster mediation programs before something happens, before people who have worked all their lives for everything they have, then all of a...

FEMA CHANGES RULES MID-STREAM; WHO SHOULD PAY?

Jul 24 2006 // FEMA recently issued new flood maps that require people in many parts of New Orleans to elevate their houses, according to Jeff Albright, chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Louisiana....

News Currents

Jul 3 2006 // Report not kind to FEMA regarding hurricane assistanceWatchdog agency finds around $1 billion was handed out improperly A report released June 14 by the U.S. Government Ac-countability Office (GAO) assessing the Federal...

8 Report faults FEMA on hurricane assistance

Jul 3 2006 // GAO estimates around $1 billion ‘improperly’ handed out10 Let the towing begin Thousands of abandoned cars to be removed in New Orleans10 IIAT presents awards, installs new officersAssociation holds 109th...

FEMA Publishes New Flood Risk Maps for Texas Counties

Jun 9 2006 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is presenting draft flood risk maps to communities in Travis and Burnet counties in Texas – areas that flood frequently. The...

June 12 is Okla. Disaster Application Deadline for March Storms

Jun 9 2006 // FEMA announced that Delaware County, Okla., residents and business owners affected by the March 12 storms and tornadoes have only a few days left to apply for disaster assistance. June 12, 2006 is the last day applications...

Senate OKs Paulison as FEMA Chief as Senator Wins Flood Claims Appeal Vow

May 30 2006 // The U.S. Senate confirmed R. David Paulison as FEMA’s chief last Friday, hours after a senator ended his stall on the nomination over problems with the agency’s flood insurance program.Paulison’s...

Maine’s Cleaves Named FEMA Director for New England

May 26 2006 // Maine Emergency Management Agency Director Arthur Cleaves is leaving his state post become New England director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.Gov. John Baldacci announced Cleaves’ departure last Friday....

Federal Disaster Aid Available for Flood Victims in Mass., N.H. and Maine

May 26 2006 // The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal disaster aid has been made available in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine to help people...

U.S. Senate panel advises scrapping, then rebuilding, FEMA

May 8 2006 // The United States’ disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded.Crippled by years of poor...

U.S. Senate panel advises scrapping, then rebuilding, FEMA

May 8 2006 // News CurrentsThe United States’ disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded. Crippled by...

ChoicePoint Comments on FEMA Investigation

May 1 2006 // The Associated Press filed a story Wednesday, April 26, about a federal General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and fraud associated with its post-Katrina financial...

U.S. Senate Panel Advises Scrapping, Then Rebuilding, FEMA

Apr 27 2006 // The United States’ disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded.Crippled by years of poor...

FEMA Wants $4.7M in Mississippi Katrina Victims’ Benefits

Apr 24 2006 // More than 2,000 Mississippi residents have been notified that they must repay millions of dollars in federal Hurricane Katrina benefits that were excessive or, in some cases, fraudulent.The Federal Emergency Management...

FEMA: ‘We Will be Prepared for 2006 Hurricanes’

Apr 13 2006 // The nation’s top emergency planner is promising that the government has learned from past mistakes and will be prepared for the upcoming 2006 hurricane season.R. David Paulison, acting director for the Federal...

FEMA Provides Flood Recovery, Rebuilding Guidance for La.

Apr 13 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced it has released flood recovery guidance documents for Jefferson, Orleans and St. Bernard parishes as well as portions of Plaquemines and St. Charles parishes in...

FEMA Delivers Trailers in Okla.

Apr 12 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun to deliver manufactured homes to Oklahoma families displaced by wildfires.The first home was delivered to Chad and Shalin Dumos in Ratliff City in southern Oklahoma. The...