Debate over saving NFIP heats up in Washington

A National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) reauthorisation bill
introduced last week would severely inhibit private carriers by
effectively barring them from covering property in the highest-risk
zones and add fees and surcharges to any non-NFIP policy, critics
say.
The draft of the bill from senators Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana
Republican, and Kristen Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, would
bar homeowners in high-risk flood zones from buying private cover
instead of an NFIP policy, according t