Efforts to change flood insurance stall
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Despite promising changes, Congress has shown little enthusiasm for taking the unpopular steps that experts say are necessary to fix the nation's main flood insurance program.
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A divided Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that people who lost their homes in hurricanes are not necessarily entitled to recover the full amount of their losses if their insurance policies covered only some perils but not others.
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Florida officials approved a rule Tuesday that prevents insurance companies from canceling or not renewing homeowners policies through the end of this year for hurricane victims who are still waiting for repairs.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 26--BILOXI -- Failure to implement FEMA's recommended elevation requirements for buildings could leave Biloxi residents without flood insurance, according to a banker.
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By Diane Mastrull, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 24--If the region has a prayer of controlling flooding, communities and the developers who build in them must embrace the new technologies of storm-water management.   Experts have made that point repeatedly in recent years.
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By James Yoo  KINNELON  Repairs to three dams owned by the Fayson Lakes Association will help protect the neighborhood from flooding, but they'll come at an added cost to residents.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec. 17--PALMETTO -- Property owners will pay double what they pay now for the city to keep their neighborhood from flooding, if the city commission adopts a new fee schedule at a meeting Monday.
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If you want insurance coverage against floods, you need to get it sooner than you think.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 12--David Wasson works hard to make sure he provides enough water to his Benbrook customers.   But he wants to pipe it into their homes, not send it by way of a flood.
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Disability insurance can stave off financial calamity, but policies vary significantly.
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep.
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Only over the past year has the public begun to see physical progress on the Roanoke River flood reduction project, a fact that might frustrate  people who have wanted to see better flood control a lot sooner.
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A new approach to managing floods could result in some areas being flooded in Wales.
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The officials said the plan would call for the Federal Housing Administration to change its federal mortgage insurance program in a way that would let an additional 80,000 homeowners with spotty credit records sign up.
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By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 19--FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, government officials, farmers and environmentalists have been trying to find a way of prevent dangerous agricultural runoff from polluting the Delta and other state waterways.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 3--For thousands of you, a ballot is about to come in the mail that may end up saving your home from a disastrous flood. Yes, it is election time once again, but just for some property owners and a single, very special cause.
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The June and July floods could cost the industry more than Â£2bn, says the British Association of Insurers.