MIAMI — Among those feeling the pain of the government shutdown are people in coastal areas and other locations where they need flood insurance. The government-backed National Flood Insurance Program ...

Flooding across the United States in 2025 caused more than 130 fatalities in the Texas Hill Country alone and billions of dollars in insured losses, yet fewer than 1% of households in some of the ...

With the US government shutdown effectively paralyzing the National Flood Insurance Program, private firms such as Neptune Insurance Holdings are seizing the opportunity to push for the near-total ...

Because of the government shutdown, the National Flood Insurance Program is no longer writing new policies. It's causing problems for would-be... For private flood insurance companies, the government ...

This photo, taken in 2018, shows a home being built in Sarasota, Fla. The government shutdown has forced many would-be homebuyers to delay their purchases because the U.S.-backed National Flood ...