Sandy flood insurance News

New Jersey’s Second Homeowners Stuck in Limbo a Year After Sandy

The Jersey shore’s small vacation bungalows and cottages have for decades staked out little plots of paradise where families who scrimped and saved could while away summer evenings, parents having drinks on the deck and kids working the ice cream …

A Year After Sandy, a Slow Recovery for Thousands

A year after Superstorm Sandy catastrophically flooded hundreds of miles of eastern U.S. coastline, thousands of people still trying to fix their soaked and surf-battered homes are being stymied by bureaucracy, insurance disputes and uncertainty over whether they can even …

FEMA: $3.7B in NFIP Payments Made to N.Y. Claimants Post-Sandy

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced this week that so far, nearly $3.7 billion in National Flood Insurance Program payments have been made to New York State policyholders following Superstorm Sandy. That is part of more than $7.8 billion that …