National Flood Insurance Program

Yesterday, a big change in the way risk is priced under the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was announced, with a shift to fully risk based pricing of flood insurance potentially set to be a driver of more flood risk into private reinsurance and risk markets.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has renewed its traditional flood reinsurance program to cover the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for 2019 at the slightly smaller size of $1.32 billion.

The United States Congress will again hear a bill in 2019 that calls on lawmakers to codify a requirement for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as the administrator of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), to utilise reinsurance and capital market risk transfer solutions.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has begun its procurement process for a 2019 flood reinsurance program renewal for its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), with multi-year protection being eyed.

The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) could be mandated to purchase much more in the way of risk transfer if a bill that aims to get FEMA buying insurance, reinsurance and capital markets risk transfer tools to provide disaster relief financing comes into law.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has confirmed its intention to enter the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market for the first time for a mid-year 2018 transfer of risk from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), to secure capital markets backed source of flood reinsurance using a catastrophe bond.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is planning for a potential mid-year 2018 reinsurance placement for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and is actively exploring ILS options, as it continues to commit to expanding the reinsurance program it began in 2017.

The tail risk that is inherent in the flood peril is one of the reasons the U.S. government has a role in flood insurance and reinsurance, but in time that tail risk could be displaced with the help of both traditional and alternative capital, according to Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has secured a 2018 flood reinsurance program, increasing the amount of coverage for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by 40% to $1.46 billion of protection, secured from a panel of 28 private market reinsurers.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has begun the process of collecting on its 2017 reinsurance program, after claims from hurricane Harvey’s flooding after surpassing its retention due to the impact of the storm and anticipates recovering the full $1.024 billion from its 25 reinsurers.