Tag: flood insurance claims

California Insurance Commissioner Lara warns consumers of flood insurance fraud

G. Turner
Flood Insurance Fraud

As San Diego County started its clean-up efforts, residents are warned of dubious companies preying on victims. Flood insurance claims are up in San Diego, where hundreds of properties and vehicles were damaged and destroyed by recent flooding, but California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has placed his department on alert for fraud and other illegal activities targeting the victims of the flooding. The Department is already receiving reports that consumers claim public adjusters have been contacting them. Immediately after the recent floods, some home and business owners say they were…

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Earthquake insurance claims cause the third highest number of consumer complaints

H. Cutner
Earthquake insurance - Complaints

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority recorded COVID and flood emergency claims in first and second. Earthquake insurance claim are responsible for the third most consumer complaints, behind only claims relating to COVID and those associated with flood emergencies, according to new data from the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) based on Queensland and New South Wales filings. As of June 22, the AFCA had already received more than 350 complaints about claims from a September quake. The town of Mansfield in Victoria, Australia, suffered a 5.9 magnitude earthquake September 22,…

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RMS pegs Hurricane Isaias loss estimates as high as $5 billion

Nordstrom
Hurricane Isaias - American dollars

The insured total loss estimates in the United States include those from NFIP claims. The Risk Management Solutions (RMS) catastrophe risk modeling firm has predicted that the total insured losses associated with Hurricane Isaias in the United States will be between $3 billion and $4.5 billion. The Atlantic storm caused less than $500 million in insured damage in the Caribbean, said RMS. The US estimate includes the losses the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) covered from Hurricane Isaias. Those were estimated to have fallen between $400 million and $700 million,…

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Federal flood insurance program swamped by repeat claims

H. Cutner
federal flood insurance program stop

NFIP struggles with debate over paying one claim after the next or supporting structure elevations. The federal flood insurance is finding itself drowning in repeat claims made by the same properties that experience regular flooding. At the same time that Congress is trying to work its way through a slew of bills for reauthorizing the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), that same program is paying out multiple times to the same claimants. This has created a call for reducing the number of repeat flooding incidences in order to shrink repeat…

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Allstate uses insurance drones to assess storm damage

Logan B.
insurance company drones aerial

The insurer is using the technology to get a better idea of the property damage situation from spring storms. Allstate is using insurance drones to conduct an assessment of the property damage left behind by spring storms in four states. The company already owns the technology in a number of locations and was prepared to implement it when it was needed. In preparation to use the drones, Allstate Insurance readied itself with a solid fleet of the technology. The Allstate fleet of insurance drones are either ready or already being…

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