NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Hurricane season begins June 1. Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana stood on the Senate floor with charts to argue that FEMA’s method for determining flood insurance premiums must end.

Flooding can happen to anyone. “All 50 states have experienced significant flooding,” said Ileana Ledet, senior vice president of Policy at Greater New Orleans Inc. Recently the Federal Emergency ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy ask the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to stop the Risk Rating 2.0 program. According to FEMA, Risk Rating 2.0 was ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - U.S. Senators from Mississippi, Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, are working to lower flood insurance rates by calling for the end of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

After hearing nearly six hours of arguments for and against FEMA's flood insurance hikes, the judge hearing the case posed a question to the agency's attorneys. "Would you concede that homelessness is ...

After repeated flood insurance rate hikes, Jefferson Parish residents will soon see an extra 10% discount on the price of their policies, now that the parish has notched the best flood rating in the ...

Homeowner Tommy Becnel has never had a flood claim on his house in the hurricane-prone U.S. state of Louisiana, but his annual insurance premium is still set to rise 10-fold, to nearly $7,000, in the ...

The National Flood Insurance Program, which accounts for 90% of all U.S. flood policies, often couldn't sell or renew coverage during the 44- day government shutdown.1 The budget bill that ended the ...