Originally Posted by waterbug_wpb
Originally Posted by pgp
Some of you may not know that the Federal government is the ONLY flood insurer. Any insurance agency can write a flood policy and they are glad to do so because it generates a small profit for the agency and company and the company assumes no liability.

This, imo, is a better plan for health insurance than the one we now have.


Actually, Pete, there are carriers that write flood outside NFIP. Few... and for unique risks and XS flood limits, but they are there.

More private companies would write flood if NFIP wasn't subsidizing so much premium and making it unprofitable at the current rates (hence the BW12 "fix").

Florida cedes $4 in premium for every $1 it receives in claim payment. Let that settle in for a bit...


Can you 'splain that to me please? I thought the history of flood loss was so huge the privates didn't want in.

My spidey sense tells me NFIP is a little like Glass-Steagall; revoke it and the market will explode and crash.


Pete Pollard
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