Last week, a federal lawsuit was filed by ten states and dozens of municipalities in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana challenging the new rating system in the National Insurance Flood Program (NFIP) administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). With the state of Louisiana taking the lead and joined by Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, the plaintiffs sued FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Fede...
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