Postcode lottery raises household flood barriers

This month's Power Hour, which took place at the DAS offices in Bristol, focuses on new levels of information and resources available to insurers involved in assessing flood-risk, and asks if this new information is specific enough to meet the needs of vulnerable homeowners?

Are the greater levels of information now available for insurers to assess flood risks helping to protect homeowners?

Richard: The danger, when you increase the quality of the information the insurance industry has, is you also reduce the risk at which good properties don't need insurance. The insurer doesn't want to insure the bad properties and this narrows down the people in the middle who have the uncertainty as to whether they are good or bad risks.

Alan: In other words it reduces the risk to

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