Championed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the National Flood Insurance Program, or NFIP, was created by the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, after disillusioned private insurers abandoned ...

You don’t have to live in an area prone to flooding to benefit from flood insurance. Nearly every U.S. county experienced a flood event over the past 20 years, according to FEMA. Standard home ...

The National Flood Insurance Program, or the NFIP, needs to be reauthorized by Congress by the end of September so that home buyers can close on their homes with new policies.

A primary worry for insurance experts and homeowners is the looming expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which provides federally-backed flood insurance to 4.7 million Americans.

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He said most of the flood insurance policies, about 90%, are through FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program. However, about 12 private companies offer flood insurance.

The federal flood insurance program is on track to run out of money to pay claims during the week of Oct. 23. ... One reason for the gap is the high cost of government's national flood insurance ...

With flood insurance agencies and policyholders just a few days away from the expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program, one local expert says there is little certainty about what’s to ...

The National Flood Insurance Program expires in December. Lawmakers want to make changes to the program, but it will be politically difficult. Strother describes it as "a classic moral hazard ...