All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 24 2014 // For Gay Alexander, Superstorm Sandy “is not over,” she says, her voice cracking as she speaks about the cost for flood insurance on her damaged, waterfront Long Island home.The single mother of two...
Mar 24 2014 // Homeowners living in flood-prone areas are getting relief from big spikes in insurance costs under legislation President Barack Obama signed into law last Friday.Lawmakers from both parties supported the measure in...
Mar 24 2014 // More than half of flood insurance policyholders in the tiny northern Arkansas city of Norfork face premium increases, but Mayor Jim Reeves says the hardship will be felt by everyone.Norfork, population 500 and change, is...
Mar 24 2014 // Colorado is getting an additional $199 million from the federal government to help communities devastated by September’s historic floods, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced.The funds...
Mar 24 2014 // A U.S. Congresswoman from Michigan wants her state to opt out of the National Flood Insurance Program, saying it’s not good for Michigan homeowners.U.S. Representative Candice Miller (MI-10) voted against H.R. 3370,...
Mar 24 2014 // At press time, President Barack Obama was set to sign into law a bipartisan bill relieving homeowners living in flood-prone neighborhoods from big increases in their insurance bills.The legislation – H.R. 3370, the...
Mar 24 2014 // Insurance Journal examined industries experiencing changes and expansions in the past year. Here are the top 10 market sectors that just might deliver hot opportunities for agents and brokers in the property/casualty...
Mar 24 2014 // Winter storms caused $2 billion in insured losses in 2013, up dramatically from $38 million in 2012, according to reports from Munich Re. From 1993 to 2012, winter storms resulted in about $28 billion in insured...
Mar 20 2014 // Red Cross officials have announced the release of a smartphone application they hope will save lives if Colorado and Wyoming experience floods from runoff this spring. Gino Greco, CEO of the Red Cross Colorado &...
Mar 18 2014 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing a grant to help pay for the elevation of 16 houses Jefferson Parish.The grant covers about $2.1 million of the estimated $2.7 million total cost of the project. FEMA...
Mar 17 2014 // Colorado is getting an additional $199 million from the federal government to help communities devastated by September’s historic floods, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced...
Mar 16 2014 // President Barack Obama is set to sign into law a bipartisan bill relieving homeowners living in flood-prone neighborhoods from big increases in their insurance bills.The legislation, which cleared Congress on Thursday,...
Mar 15 2014 // Sue Suebelka, who had little fish swimming among the shelves of her new refrigerator, won’t have to pay quite as much for flood insurance.Kim Ely, who still washes dishes in a bucket and eats dinner from a microwave...
Mar 13 2014 // The Massachusetts House on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill designed to soften the impact of new federal flood insurance rules on many of the state’s coastal homeowners.The measure, sponsored by Democratic House...
Mar 13 2014 // The Senate today went along with the House of Representatives by passing a bill to reverse flood insurance reforms and curb flood insurance premium increases.The Senate approved H.R. 3370, the “Homeowner Flood...
Mar 13 2014 // Sioux Falls, S.D., officials can almost see the finish line in a flood-control upgrade project that has lasted nearly 15 years. But the work construction crews are completing in the city’s west side was not part of...
Mar 13 2014 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has calculated that insurance claims from the recent spate of floods in the UK are averaging £6.7 million a day [$11.176 million]. The ABI said the “wettest winter on record...
Mar 11 2014 // The hazard posed by potential flooding is increasingly on the minds of many business owners, said Lou Gritzo, vice president and manager of research at Johnston, R.I.-based business property insurer FM Global. Gritzo...
Mar 10 2014 // Sioux Falls, S.D. officials can almost see the finish line in a flood-control upgrade project that has lasted nearly 15 years. But the work construction crews are completing in the city’s west side was not part of...
Mar 10 2014 // The West Virginia House last Friday in a 86-8 vote passed a bill authorizing private insurers to sell flood insurance and setting out guidelines for regulation of the policies.The bill, SB 621, had previously passed the...