City participation in the National Flood Insurance Program is again on the agenda for Monday’s Orland City Council meeting.

The council will give City Manager Paul Poczobut Jr. direction on whether to proceed in applying for a spot in the program that provides low-cost flood insurance to residents of areas in flood plains or zones.

It’s Only Money is, if nothing else, prescient, by a year. A year ago this weekend, it wrote its column entitled “Earthquake insurance: A good bet?”

Lawmakers on Friday began considering how to reshape the beleaguered National Flood Insurance Program, which is $18 billion in the red.

There must be 50 ways to leave your home insurance company.

Just slip out the back, Jack: Only suckers stay loyal to home insurers who ratchet up rates every year.

Make a new plan, Stan: Call a broker, get an online quote from a company that deals directly with the public or use a quote comparison website. Don’t need to be coy, Roy: Tell your insurer you’ve found someone else who is cheaper, and hit the road.

Shanghai will launch a pilot program to let insurance firms build subsidized government housing, China’s insurance regulator said in remarks published on Tuesday, as a shortage of affordable housing adds to social strains.

AUSTIN, MN – When the winter snow melts all that water has to go somewhere.

Forecasts show spring flooding will again be a big issue in Iowa and Minnesota. That’s prompting federal officials to encourage people to buy flood insurance, particularly in Minnesota.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is encouraging individuals to buy flood insurance now before the rainy season because there is a 30-day waiting period before a flood insurance policy takes effect. According to a release from FEMA there is a significant risk of flooding this spring.

The widespread flooding that greeted most people Monday morning has a lot of people asking questions about flood insurance.

SISSONVILLE — Floods are the number one natural disaster in the country when it comes to the number of lives lost and property damaged.

CROOKSTON — Eighty percent of this town of 8,000 is protected to a 100-year flood, with the remaining sliver scheduled to be equally secure by the end of 2012.
Richard Rock, city fire chief and flood coordinator, said he’s confident the remaining piece can be protected in an emergency “with one day of sandbagging.”