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Your flood insurance premium is going up again, and that’s only the beginning

by R.J. Lehmann

Aug 3, 2018

issues: Federal Government Affairs, Flood Insurance, Florida, Insurance, South, State Policy

originally published in The Miami Herald

R.J. Lehmann cited in The Miami Herald:

Florida has more flood insurance policies than any other state. The vast majority are through the NFIP; only eight percent of flood insurance policies in 2017 were from private companies, according to an Insurance Journal analysis.

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