Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it's often a shocking discovery for property owners ...

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 ...

National Flood Insurance Program is a deluge of damaging policy. Congress must rebuild it. ... All told, U.S. flood-related damage totals more than $750 billion since 2000.

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.

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...