Sept. 20 — -- As you watch those pictures of houses under assault from Hurricane Isabel, doesn't it make you wonder: Why do people build their homes so close to the water? They must have known a ...

Cyber attacks: They’ve shut down government agencies, global companies and even a gas pipeline that serves nearly half the population along the East Coast of the United States. Experts say the attacks ...

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) cannot issue new flood insurance policies during a government shutdown. Existing NFIP policies remain valid if issued on or before September 30, 2025 and ...

WASHINGTON -- As finger-pointing by members of Congress over the government shutdown continues, so have the worries over the future of premium tax credits for health insurance purchased through the ...

Congress created the National Flood Insurance Program in 1968 as a way for the federal government to bear a risk that private companies wouldn’t. Since then, Uncle Sam has backed the vast majority of ...

On Friday the Federal Emergency Management Administration, or FEMA, will roll out sweeping changes to a government program that provides flood insurance to some three million American households.

Real estate is the most valuable asset most people will ever possess, and insuring against natural disasters like floods and storms is common sense. Or so you might think. Two government-mandated ...

Reinsurance is insurance for insurance companies. If insurance is the financial first responder to disaster events, reinsurance is insurers’ shock absorber, a backstop, enabling insurers to have more ...

You can also keep the coverage you get through work with COBRA, but this is typically expensive. You may qualify for free government health insurance through Medicaid if you aren't getting more than ...

Next year will be an important one for American health. Donald Trump’s incoming administration has pledged a new focus on chronic diseases in hopes of better understanding and preventing what makes us ...

The Japan Center for Economic Research, a source sympathetic to nuclear power, recently put the long-term costs of the 2011 Fukushima accident as about $750 billion. Contrast that with the maximum of ...