Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FEMA Sets Up Review Process for Sandy Flood Claims
Mar 12 2015 // In light of recent allegations that some insurers in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) may have denied or rejected Superstorm Sandy flood damage claims based on falsified reports, the Federal Emergency Management...
Feds to Study Cracks in Monroe, Louisiana Floodwall
Mar 11 2015 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will study the 81-year-old floodwall that protects Monroe from the Ouachita River, to try to determine why the structure is cracking. Tensas Basin Levee District personnel first...
Study Links Flooding, Drought to Urban Expansion
Mar 11 2015 // A heads-up to New York, Baltimore, Houston and Miami: a new study suggests that these metropolitan areas and others will increase their exposure to floods even in the absence of climate change, according to researchers...
FEMA to Impose More Oversight on Flood Insurers, Engineering Firms
Mar 10 2015 // Federal disaster relief officials are keeping a closer eye on companies that help it provide flood insurance, following allegations by Hurricane Sandy victims that claims were denied or underpaid based on manipulated...
Lawmakers Probe FEMA’s Sandy-Related Claims
Mar 9 2015 // U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur (R., N.J.) on March 2 called for an investigation into the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after stories surfaced that FEMA was aware of allegedly fraudulent engineering reports that may...
FEMA Reports Progress with Flood Insurance Changes
Mar 9 2015 // The agency responsible for managing the federal flood insurance program has made progress in carrying out key changes mandated by Congress in two recent laws but lacks resources and data to completely implement others, a...
Work on Red River Levee Offers Hope for Avoiding ‘Flood Insurance Nightmare’
Mar 9 2015 // The threat of a flood insurance nightmare in Louisiana’s Rapides Parish and elsewhere was delayed, but not eliminated, by Congress last year. But the threat is slowly diminishing as work proceeds to fix deficiencies...
N.Y. Assemblyman Proposes State-Run Flood Insurance
Mar 5 2015 // A New York State assemblyman says he will introduce a bill to create a state-run flood insurance program designed to serve New York homeowners in flood-prone communities. Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder (D-Queens) announced...
Senator: FEMA Will Re-examine More Cases, Reform NFIP Claims Process
Mar 5 2015 // A top Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official has committed to taking aggressive steps to make sure victims of Superstorm Sandy get “every penny to which they’re entitled” from their national...
India Tops List of Countries at Risk From River Flooding, Analysis Shows
Mar 5 2015 // Gross domestic product at risk of flooding in India, the world’s second-most populous nation, may surge 10-fold by 2030 as cities expand and climate challenges worsen, according to the World Resources Institute. A...
N.J. Congressman Calls for FEMA Chief’s Resignation
Mar 3 2015 // A New Jersey congressman is asking for the resignation of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator W. Craig Fugate and an immediate investigation into FEMA after reports that FEMA was aware of allegedly...
TNCs, State Flood Insurance Among Hot Topics at NCOIL Spring Meeting
Mar 3 2015 // For those whose travel plans weren’t interrupted by the inclement weather, the spring meeting of the tri-annually convened National Conference of Insurance Legislators – held in Charleston, S.C. just as February...
FEMA Exec Tells ’60 Minutes’ He’s Seen Evidence of Fraudulent Reports
Mar 2 2015 // The head of Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) flood insurance program acknowledged he has seen evidence of fraudulent engineering reports that may have been used to deny flood claims by Superstorm Sandy...
Update: Nashville Flood Protection Plan Must be Approved by City Council
Mar 1 2015 // Nashville government officials now say that funding for a proposed $100 million flood protection plan still has to be approved by the city council. Officials discovered last week that the council approved the funding with...
Nashville to Put $100M Flood Protection Plan in Place
Feb 27 2015 // Nashville Mayor Karl Dean has unveiled a $100 million flood protection plan for Music City that includes a 2,100-foot-long flood wall located on the city’s downtown riverfront. “I look at this downtown flood...
2014 Insured Losses Hit Lowest Level in Five Years: Guy Carpenter
Feb 26 2015 // Insured losses in 2014 were at the lowest level seen since 2009, according to Guy Carpenter’s annual Global Catastrophe Review. The report says that significant insured losses in 2014 totaled approximately USD33...
Twice-Wounded Sandy Victims Seek Payout as FEMA Presses Insurers
Feb 25 2015 // Some homeowners hit by Hurricane Sandy say they’ve been victimized twice: first by the storm and later by insurers. John Clancy says his insurer, an Allstate Corp. unit, paid just $46,000 of the more than $200,000 in...
Long Island Engineering Firm Raided in Sandy Investigation
Feb 20 2015 // The New York attorney general’s office executed a search warrant Wednesday at a Long Island engineering firm that has been accused in civil lawsuits of submitting bogus inspection reports on homes damaged by...
FEMA Shows Some Progress Implementing Flood Insurance Changes: GAO
Feb 20 2015 // The agency responsible for managing the federal flood insurance program has made progress in carrying out key changes mandated by Congress in two recent laws but lacks resources and data to completely implement others, a...
Hope for Avoiding ‘Flood Insurance Nightmare’ Lies in Red River Levee Work
Feb 19 2015 // The threat of a flood insurance nightmare in Louisiana’s Rapides Parish and elsewhere was delayed, but not eliminated, by Congress last year. But the threat is slowly diminishing as work proceeds to fix deficiencies...
