Atlanta To Nashville: Multi-Day Flood Threat Ahead Nashville, city, capital (1843) of Tennessee, U.S., and seat (1784–1963) of Davidson county. Nashville lies on the Cumberland River in the north-central part of the state. It is the centre of an urbanized area that also embraces part...
Lynne Yeates McChristian, a spokesperson for the Insurance Information Institute and a risk-management and insurance instructor at Florida State University, said the private market is more equipped to offer better, and also more inexpensive, flood insurance. “You try to envision what losses are go...
All this is likely to delay, but not defeat, the effort to reform flood insurance. Proponents of letting private insurers into the market point out that they have been doing this in the United Kingdom, which has seen severe flooding in recent years, as well as elsewhere in Europe...
Several factors have influenced theincreased participation of private insurers in the flood insurance market, said Junge. Technology offers insurers the ability to understand and model how water flows. LIDAR and satellite imagery have helped improve mapping. Lastly, improved computing power has enabled i...
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