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 ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – Several U.S. senators, including Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, are asking for the Biden’s Risk Rating 2.0 to be repealed due to wanting more transparent flood risk assessment ...

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program ...

Joshua Carroll owns Valley Auto Spa in Big Stone Gap, one of the many businesses and homes in Southwest Virginia impacted by Hurricane Helene. The storm was Category 4 when it hit the Florida coast ...

A New Orleans federal judge will decide whether the formula that is the basis for Louisiana’s flood insurance prices can stay withheld from the public. FEMA’s new flood insurance program, known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congressmen introduced the Retroactive Renewal and Reauthorization Act to the House Monday, with hopes to backdate the reauthorization of the insurance program.

Jefferson Parish homeowners are feeling like they are getting the short end of the stick. They said they thought they would ...