Fears flood-risk map will hit insurance cover

By Erik Jensen
Updated November 10 2012 - 4:39am, first published February 9 2012 - 2:15pm
Costly … Corporal Aaron Hayes and Lieutenant Grant Young with volunteer Brian McCarroll in the flooded town of Mitchell.
Costly … Corporal Aaron Hayes and Lieutenant Grant Young with volunteer Brian McCarroll in the flooded town of Mitchell.

A NATIONAL flood-risk map to be managed by the federal government will be used by insurers as a cover to raise premiums unnecessarily, according to consumer advocates.

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