UK Floods Raise Specter of ‘Mortgage Prisoners’ for Banks February 19, 2026 By Alastair Marsh and Olivia Rudgard As the prospect of flood damage haunts an ever larger number of UK homes, the country’s banks are under growing...
Viewpoint: East London Faces Risks of Extreme Flooding – But Resilience Can Be Built February 13, 2026 By Ravindra Jayaratne and Maciej Pawlik More than 1,000 properties flooded in London in 2021, resulting in insurance losses of more than £281 million. Record-breaking floods...
Flood Risk Misconceptions Drive Underinsurance: Chubb January 30, 2026 A new survey found three overarching themes that affect the purchase of flood insurance centered on awareness, action, and coverage...
Opportunity for Private Flood Insurers With Threat of Another NFIP Lapse January 29, 2026 By Chad Hemenway The clock struck midnight on the National Flood Insurance Program—again. The NFIP is part of the federal funding package, which...
Poorer Americans Dropped Federal Flood Insurance When Rates Rose December 17, 2025 By Leslie Kaufman When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency overhauled rates for millions of homeowners in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP),...
FEMA to Send Georgia $300M in Helene Aid After Accusations of Delays December 15, 2025 The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday announced it would send $350 million in funding to localities and electric cooperatives...
NFIP Reauthorized With Passage of Funding Bill to End Government Shutdown November 13, 2025 By Chad Hemenway The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been reauthorized until the end of January 2026. With the passage of HR...
London’s Rich Come to Grips With Flood Risk on Their Doorstep November 13, 2025 By Olivia Rudgard As London struggles to adapt to the reality of more frequent and powerful floods, its wealthier corners are emerging as...
Crews Work to Fix Alaska Native Villages Devastated by Floods November 10, 2025 By Mark Thiessen, Gene Johnson and Becky Bohrer Darrel John watched the final evacuees depart his village on the western coast of Alaska in helicopters and small planes...
Bipartisan Legislation Introduced to Retroactively Restore NFIP November 10, 2025 By Ezra Amacher Two U.S. Congressmen, one a Democrat from Louisiana and the other a Republican from Mississippi, have introduced legislation to retroactively...