R Street’s insurance policy program explores efficient and effective market-based approaches to public policy questions that involve the transfer of risk. Among its priorities are risk-based insurance regulation, ending environmentally destructive taxpayer subsidies through the National Flood Insurance Program and the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. and exploring the benefits of mitigation through programs like the RESTORE Act and the Coastal Barrier Resources System.
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My name is R.J. Lehmann and I am director of finance,
insurance and trade policy at the R Street Institute. R Street is a think tank
devoted to pragmatic free-market solutions to public policy…
My name is R.J. Lehmann and I am director of finance,
insurance and trade policy at the R Street Institute. R Street is a think tank
devoted to pragmatic free-market solutions to public policy…
Conservation, CarFax-Like Disclosure, Means-Test in Mix of Flood Insurance Reforms
Media Coverage
From Insurance Journal:
“The NFIP is a textbook example of unintended consequences,” said Raymond J. Lehmann, director of Finance, Insurance and Trade Policy for the think tank R Street…
Chairman
Simmons and members of the committee,
My
name is Christian Cámara. I am a co-founder and senior fellow of the R Street
Institute, a Washington-based, free-market public policy research…
The Private Sector Is Returning to the Flood Insurance Game
R.J. Lehmann
From Scientific American:
But that has changed in recent years as technology has enabled risk-modeling companies to assess the risk of individual properties, which lets insurance companies write…
The National Flood Insurance Program – Everything you need to know
Media Coverage
From Insurance Business:
R.J. Lehmann, The R Street Institute’s director of finance, insurance and trade policy, said in July 2018 (after the current law’s seventh reauthorization): “The…
Private Insurers Join Flood Game
Media Coverage
From Climate Wire:
But that has changed in recent years as technology has enabled risk-modeling companies to assess the risk of individual properties, which lets insurance companies write…
, Quartz
The Trump administration could finally recognize climate change—for flood insurance
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From Quartz:
“Adapting to climate change is never going to be a cost-free exercise,” R.J. Lehmann, director of insurance policy at the R Street Institute, which advocates for market-based…
Chairwoman Waters, Ranking Member McHenry and members of the
committee,
My name is R.J. Lehmann, and I am director of finance,
insurance and trade policy at the R Street Institute, of which I am…
The White House’s position on farm subsidies
has been a bit schizophrenic. Just a few months ago, President Donald Trump
endorsed and signed into law a $900 billion farm bill that dramatically…