Husch Blackwell LLP | USA | 18 Jun 2012
The U.S. Senate is considering the long-term reauthorization for the National Flood Insurance Program, which, if enacted in its present form, would require mandatory participation in the insurance program for areas of “residual risk, including areas protected behind levees, dams and other flood-control structures.”
Husch Blackwell LLP | USA | 8 Feb 2012
As previously reported, on December 15, 2011 FEMA released its revised mapping procedures for de-accredited levee systems, the comment period for which expired on January 30, 2012.
Husch Blackwell LLP | USA | 26 Dec 2011
On December 15, 2011, FEMA released its proposed solution for Revised Analysis and Mapping Procedures for Non-Accredited Levees.
Husch Blackwell LLP | USA | 12 Sep 2011
We posted earlier that the U.S. House of the Representatives passed H.R. 1309 to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which extended phase-in of actuarial rates and delayed the full effect of levee de-accreditation decisions to allow communities to improve flood control structures
Husch Blackwell LLP | USA | 2 Aug 2011
Because of disasters such as the tsunami in Japan, tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and the Yangtze River in China, the concept of “risk” has recently received a significant amount of attention.
Husch Blackwell LLP | USA | 13 Jul 2011
The House has passed H.R. 1309 today which would reauthorize the 41-year old National Flood Insurance Program for an additional 5 years.