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Federal lawmakers expected to take action on flood insurance program this week

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Expiration date for the National Flood Insurance Program looms The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is roughly nine days away from expirations (May 31, 2012), and federal lawmakers have yet to take any definitive action on the beleaguered insurance program. Federal legislators have long relied on several short-term extensions for the program, many of which extended the life span of the program for three-to-six months. Though lawmakers have not acted, they are not lacking options concerning the insurance program. Last year, the federal House of Representatives approved a plan to…

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Lawmakers to debate the fate of the National Flood Insurance Program

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Congress begins talks concerning NFIP Federal lawmakers are now responding to growing pressures from agencies, insurance companies and consumers and have begun debates concerning the fate of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The program is scheduled to expire at the end of this month. If the expiration is allowed, millions of homeowners throughout the country will face lapses in insurance coverage that could have devastating consequences. Hurricane season is scheduled to begin June 1 – one day after NFIP is scheduled to expire – giving lawmakers limited time to…

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FEMA ban on flood insurance rebates challenges by Florida insurer

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FEMA seeks to ban insurance commission rebates FEMA has come under fire recently in Florida after the agency decided to stop insurance companies from offering rebates to consumers who purchase flood insurance coverage. These rebates would have been garnished from the commission of insurance agents. Consumers purchasing or renewing flood insurance policies through the federal National Flood Insurance Program would have been eligible for these rebates. FEMA believes that these flood insurance rebates are a source of recent complaints consumers have been having regarding the National Flood Insurance Program. Insurer…

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FEMA pushes for renewal of National Flood Insurance Program

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NFIP set to expire without Congressional action The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is scheduled to expire, once again, on May 31 of this year. The program is the primary source of flood insurance for homeowners throughout the country. Many private insurance companies either do not offer or have stopped offering flood insurance coverage in states where floods and heavy rainfall is common. As such, many homeowners rely on the federal program to protect them from natural disasters. Unfortunately, the program has been crippled by monumental debt, which has threatened…

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Florida homeowners in danger of losing their flood insurance coverage

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Florida law could exclude the state from NFIP coverage, according to FEMA. Florida lawmakers are working to expedite the availability of new building permits, but this may have put homeowners at risk of losing the flood insurance coverage they receive from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).  Flood insurance has become a very problematic issue throughout the country, but has been especially problematic in Florida recently. The troubles of flood insurance are linked to NFIP, a federal program which provides the majority of the country’s flood insurance coverage. The program…

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Newly mapped FEMA flood plain requires some Michigan residents to purchase coverage

Certain residents of Michigan have recently received letters from their mortgage companies, informing them that they will be required to purchase flood insurance, or that coverage will be bought on their behalf. This is the result of a newly mapped flood plain by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and affects the residents of the Frank and Poet Drain, who are currently in an uproar over the sudden cost. Since February 2012, when the new Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) went into effect, there has been a much larger area…

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Oklahoma gap insurance to fill the additional need for flood coverage

According to a news release from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, despite the fact that flooding is the most common form of natural disaster in the country, statistics continue to indicate that individuals are ignoring this risk and are failing to purchase the gap insurance required to cover them against this circumstance. There are approximately 1.7 million households in the state of Oklahoma, and fewer than 34,000 (approximately 2 percent) of them are covered in the event of flooding, from a policy…

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