NFIP News
Over 250,000 U.S. Properties Have Repeat NFIP Claims: Report
More than a quarter million U.S. properties have repeated claims for federal flood insurance, costing the National Flood Insurance Program billions of dollars in claims, according to new federal data ...
Project 2025 Plan to End NFIP Welcomed by Some, Rejected by Others in Insurance
A plan by a politically conservative group to dismantle the National Flood Insurance Program, if Donald Trump is elected president, has been met with approval from a private flood insurer but sharp ...
Federal Reinsurance for Cats: No Thanks, APCIA Says
Federal lawmakers introduced a bill to create a federal natural catastrophe backstop recently, reacting to insurers' issues with growing private reinsurance costs. But a trade group for carriers ...
FEMA Adds Nearly $620M to Reinsurance Program
FEMA announced that the agency is transferring $619.5 million more of the National Flood Insurance Program's financial risk to the private reinsurance market as part of its 2024 reinsurance ...
Temporary Fix Keeps National Flood Insurance Operating, But Only Until Nov. 17
Real estate interests and insurance companies that administer National Flood Insurance Program policies are heaving a sigh of relief after Congress approved a last-minute ...
2023 to Test Recent Growth in Private Flood Insurance Market
The private flood insurance market has been growing, but 2023 may provide a real test following Tropical Storm Hilary in California as well as future storms that may come ...
Private Flood Insurers Seize Opportunity as NFIP Falters
While the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) rolls out a new rating program generating premium increases for many policyholders, the private flood insurance market has seized the opportunity to ...
GAO Urges Changes to NFIP as Study Highlights Potential $27B Shortfall
FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) substantially improved ratemaking by implementing Risk Rating 2.0 in 2021, but the program faces a potentially significant ...
