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On the recordNovember 18, 2013
the number of people who brought their new bills from their insurance companies, and the increase of premiums, we were looking at, in many cases, a 500 percent, sometimes 1,000 percent increase in the premiums of those flood insurance rates under the new maps.
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Stephen Lee Fincher
Tennessee

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Fincher highlights drastic increases in flood insurance premiums affecting his constituents.

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