WASHINGTON–Flood insurance policyholders, after a two-year delay, have been given an official means of appealing decisions made by the National Flood Insurance Program under a rule published late last week.
The rule establishing a formal appeals process within the NFIP was developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees the NFIP, as required by the Bunning-Bereuter-Blumenauer Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004.
Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., who during recent Senate Banking Committee hearings took the NFIP management to task for failing to enact the appeal provisions when they were supposed to said he was gratified.
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