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• Florida urged to improve building standards as Fema cuts flood subsidies

  04 April 2024

  State currently has highest insurance rates in US, nearly double second-placed Louisiana

• NFIP has entered "actuarial death spiral", made flood insurance impossible to afford

  26 January 2024

  Senators press for reform of government flood programme which now has over $20bn of debt

• Fema's Risk Rating 2.0 comes under further political scrutiny

  21 September 2023

  US government agency has until Monday to deliver documents on embattled flood model

• NFIP suffered biggest ever flood loss from hurricane Ian

  14 November 2022

  Private flood insurance market rose 42% in 2021, AM Best finds

• Fema defends Risk Rating 2.0 flood model from criticism

  25 November 2021

  But new model does not look to future climate change predictions

• Risk Rating 2.0 "causing havoc" for US flood insurance

  02 November 2021

  Senator Bill Cassidy accuses NFIP's new flood insurance model of raising rates

• White House report highlights NFIP vulnerability to climate change

  15 October 2021

  Fema is looking to revamp flood standards to account for worsening effects of climate change

• US state regulators accused of hampering private flood insurance

  12 August 2021

  Milliman says the vast majority of flood risk in US is uninsured as climate change impact grows

• Fema delays flood model to 2021 after Congress pushback

  11 November 2019

  Fear of hike in US flood insurance rates sees delay until after Presidential election

• US flood insurance: new model, new hope?

  04 April 2019

  The federal flood insurance system has been setting milestones in mismanagement since it was introduced in 1968. Will a new risk model and other guidance improve the situation, and allow private insurers to participate? Sarfraz Thind reports