Deadline Extended for Isaac Flood Insurance Claims

January 25, 2013Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Louisiana property owners with flood insurance policies whose homes or other structures were damaged during Hurricane Isaac have another 30 days to file claims for their flood losses.

Policy owners now have until Feb. 21 to complete their proof of loss.

The National Flood Insurance Program usually requires claims to be reported within 60 days of the date of loss but extensions have been granted because access to homes was limited by damage and high water.

Failure to submit the proof of loss could cause policyholders to miss out on benefits from their flood insurance policy.

Since Isaac made landfall, the insurance program has paid out more than $416 million on 13,159 claims in Louisiana.

 

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Deadline for Cheap North Dakota Flood Rebuilding Loans Looms

September 25, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Jessica Henderson’s Minot home had just been painstakingly gutted and remodeled, from the basement on up, when the flooding Souris River put its main floor under four feet of water last summer.

When it came time to rebuild again, Henderson was one of hundreds of Minot residents who tapped a low-interest loan fund, set up by the Legislature through the state-owned Bank of North Dakota, to help finance repairs

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