When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency overhauled rates for millions of homeowners in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), in 2021, the goal was to end decades of underpricing and to ...

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(Washington, D.C – December 16, 2025) As climate change drives more damaging floods across the United States, a new paper published in the Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience (JCRR) provides ...

New York officials have told rideshare companies, driver representatives and others in the for-hire vehicle industry that insurance policy rates will rise by an average 25% over the next three years, ...

Esco Bell walked the length of Mount Vernon’s 1.7-mile floodwall just after midnight on Friday, watching the water creep up to the brim of the only barrier separating the surging Skagit River from the ...

US Reps. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) (pictured above, left) and Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) (pictured above, right) have reintroduced legislation aimed at expanding access to private flood coverage while ...

Two Florida lawmakers moved again to loosen constraints in the flood insurance market while keeping pricing protections tied to the National Flood Insurance Program. Reps. Kathy Castor, a Democrat, ...

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