Flood Insurance

Everyone knows flood insurance isn’t the most exciting topic. What this episode presupposes is: maybe it should be?It’s not difficult to imagine a future…

Properties that flood over and over again are a longstanding problem for FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program. Around 30,000 of the most…

Since last August, the popularity of flood insurance has again surged in Louisiana, but the future of the debt-laden National Flood Insurance Program is…

Orleans Parish is seeing its flood maps updated for the first time since 1984 today. More than half of the city is moving out of the so-called “high risk”…

Many residents in Louisiana who lack flood insurance are struggling to recover financially from massive floods. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Jim Donelon, the insurance commissioner for the state.

Floods continue to impact wide swaths of Louisiana, and a long rebuilding process is ahead for tens of thousands of people. The Association of State…

Business and political leaders are meeting in New Orleans Friday to discuss ways of providing affordable flood insurance.FEMA Administrator David Miller…

New homeowners and business owners in Louisiana will now be able to assume the property’s existing flood insurance policy.The Federal Emergency Management…

President Barack Obama has signed a new law that will give hundreds of thousands of homeowners living in flood-prone areas relief from big jumps in…

Louisiana public officials are launching a bipartisan battle to revamp proposed changes to the National Flood Insurance Program. The administrator…