Opinion: US budget hiatus threatens NFIP

Coping with the uncertainty of hurricane forecasts can be hard
enough for (re)insurers looking ahead to the storm season, but
leave it to Washington to make it even tougher to manage.
As evening fell yesterday in the US capital, it remained
anyone's guess whether the Senate would clear a bill to keep
the lights on after tonight's midnight government funding
deadline. And that cut-off also applies to the National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP).
Those who run the Federal Emergency Management...