Homeowners insurance coverage confusion regarding power failures

New York power outage from Hurricane Sandy- Homeowners Insurance fraud Coverage

Following Hurricane Sandy, many people would like to know if they are covered when the lights go out. Typically, a power outage causes a minor level of inconvenience – especially at home – but when a storm such as Hurricane Sandy strikes, many people wonder if the losses that can occur from those events are covered by their homeowners insurance policies. After a certain number of hours, it is no longer a matter of simply not being able to watch TV. For example, when power failures occur in the dead…

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Scandinavia Hit Hard by Windstorm Dagmar

According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Windstorm Dagmar has moved across Russia north of St. Petersburg and begun to dissipate, its hurricane-force winds having caused power outages, tree- downings, and landslides and other disruption across northern Scandinavia on Christmas Day and the early hours of yesterday, December 27th. According to AIR, Windstorm Dagmar developed almost suddenly, the product of a large temperature contrast between cold air moving south from Greenland/Arctic Norway and warm air moving north from the Azores/Iberia. Its formation assisted by a rapid deepening of lows and…

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