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Debbie and Ron Gialanze were not covered for damage that the National Flood Insurance Program defines as earth movement, even though flooding caused it.

“You should have been in your house nine months ago,” County Legislator Dave Denenberg (D-Merrick) told the crowd. “… [T]here was no earth moving, that was floodwaters. This has to … more

By Anthony Rifilato | 9/4/13

Many residents whose homes sustained more than 50 percent damage from Sandy received letters from the city informing them that they have to rebuild or elevate their houses to comply with FEMA requirements.

Hundreds of Long Beach homes need to be rebuilt

Fred Vordermeier, 39, who moved to Long Beach from Manhattan with his wife in 2009 to raise a family, pays $3,600 a year for flood insurance. He said that the foundation of his East Chester Street … more

By Anthony Rifilato | 3/27/13

State says 10 banks hold back millions in Sandy aid

The New York State Department of Financial Services said on Tuesday that it had identified 10 banks that have been slowest to pay insurance claims to Hurricane Sandy victims, and told them to speed … more

By Anthony Rifilato | 3/20/13

Bryan Murphy, left, the founder of Sandy Help LB, with Marian Freedman in what used to be her living room.

Sandy victims grow weary

Marian Freedman, 70, has lived on Dalton Street with her husband, Gus, 88, since 1972. She has paid their flood insurance bills on time, and they fled the city whenever a mandatory evacuation order … more

By Anthony Rifilato | 3/20/13

Healing the gaping wound that Sandy left

The eight students and one teacher shuffled into the center of what was left of the dining room of a red-brick ranch home on a canal in Long Beach’s East End last Friday. more

By Scott Brinton | 12/20/12

Insurance delays prolong the disaster

Hurricane Sandy attacked without mercy, leaving more than a million Long Islanders without power and wrecking tens of thousands of homes near the shoreline. Then a second disaster struck. more

12/13/12

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