BALTIMORE - The federal flood insurance program will re-evaluate settlements for all 24,000 people who submitted claims following Hurricane Isabel last year.
Federal Insurance Administrator Anthony Lowe announced a review of the program Friday after calls by senators from Maryland and North Carolina to help hundreds of people who still have not returned home.
Officials from the National Flood Insurance Program will hold community outreach meetings in Maryland, North Carolina's Outer Banks and Virginia's Tidewater region.
Letters will be sent to all 24,000 people who submitted claims, he said.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency "should have done this long ago," Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said in a written statement. "I set up workshops because my constituents didn't know where else to turn for information or assistance."
Isabel, which made landfall near Ocracoke Island, N.C., Sept. 18, was blamed for 40 deaths and $2 billion in damage, much of it from flooding.
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