In recent years, the private flood sector has grown rapidly and will likely continue to grow until the new market significantly closes the U.S. flood “protection gap.”

Milliman collaborated with KatRisk to develop tools to quickly assess the private flood insurance feasibility, and then compared our modeled private flood insurance premiums to those of the NFIP.

Milliman recently collaborated with Risk Management Solutions, Inc. to model a potential private flood insurance market in New Jersey and New York.

The visibility of climate’s impact on property hazard is increasingly leading individuals and their chosen leaders to ask: how might an increase in hazard affect the desirability of living in various communities, and how do we manage the socioeconomic impacts?

This articles explores some questions and challenges for aspiring U.S. private flood insurers.

Flood has been considered an uninsurable risk for years. But the tide may be turning thanks to several recent developments.

Given the volatile political – not to mention atmospheric – winds, it is a good time for an overview of insurance governance and challenges in one of the world’s riskiest catastrophe zones.