flood-insurance premiums

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  Senators: Areas Protected By Levees, Dams Should Not Need Flood Coverage

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 18, 2011

  Two Gulf-Coast senators are seeking to remove a Senate flood-insurance legislation provision requiring flood coverage in areas already protected by levees, dams or other flood-control structures.

• Still Afloat

  By Ted Besesparis  |  June 1, 2011

  Once again, we face a looming expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), with the program’s authorization set to expire on September 30 of this year. NFIP has received temporary reauthorizations eight times since 2008 and has gone into technical lapse on several occasions.

• NFIP stall hits agents hard, consumers harder

  By Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com, Broker Editor  |  March 8, 2010

  Congress's stall to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has thrown the insurance market into disarray. With more than 5.6 million policies in effect, and so much at stake, what can agents and brokers do to advise their customers?