Flood Insurance

The spending bill needed to keep the government funded includes a patch for some people facing sky rocketing flood insurance costs.Florida lawmakers are…

Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson is helping lead an effort to rollback rate increases on flood insurance policies. Matt Laslo reports from…

On Wednesday, the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee will take up a bill that would seek to increase flood-insurance competition by expanding the…

Efforts to ease a massive spike in the cost of some flood insurance policies have been stymied on Capitol Hill. Congress won’t address the issue until the…

Last year lawmakers tried to make the National Flood Insurance Program solvent. It is more than $25 billion in debt. But in ending some federal subsidies…

The Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 went into effect Oct. 1. The law is intended to close the National Flood Insurance Program’s $24…

Florida is backing a Mississippi lawsuit that seeks to block the federal government from phasing out flood-insurance subsidies. Governor Rick Scott,…

U.S. Representative Trey Radel (R-Ft. Myers) has co-sponsored a bill that would delay flood insurance rate increases.Rates jumped significantly for most…

Florida lawmakers are trying to find a solution to a costly change in the flood insurance market. Rates are climbing for a lot of homeowners because of a…

Homeowners, realtors and politicians are scrambling in Tallahassee this week, trying to determine what, if anything, they can do to stop major flood…