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Insurance Companies Prepared for Advancing Storms |
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09/04/2008 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 4, 2008
Contact: Sam Miller (850) 386-6668 ext 223
Gary Landry (850) 386-6668 ext 234
Insurance Companies Prepared for Advancing Storms
FIC white papers available on emergency adjuster
licensing and when insurers stop writing new business.
(TALLAHASSEE, FL) - For the first time in a decade, three named storms are simultaneously moving through the Atlantic waters prompting emergency disaster officials to warn Florida residents to "remain vigilant."
Governor Charlie Crist said the state continues to monitor Tropical Storm Hanna even though the Florida peninsula and North Florida are no longer in the forecast cone, monster Hurricane Ike and Tropical Storm Josephine.
During a morning briefing at the State Emergency Operations Center today, the Governor said, “The forecast remains uncertain and with (Hurricane) Ike growing in intensity, we must not let our guard down. Ike has grown rapidly into a dangerous, powerful storm," and residents should be “prepared to act."
In addition to Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike, the third storm in what has been likened to a conga line of storms dancing toward Florida, Tropical Storm Josephine, is moving toward the west-northwest at about 10 miles per hour and is expected to remain on this track for the next couple of days according to the National Hurricane Center.
As the tropics fill with activity, insurance companies stand ready to react should any or all of the storms strike Florida.
Tens of thousands of adjusters are prepared to work in Florida following a major hurricane, including resident adjusters who live in the state year-round and thousands more who are prepared to come in under the Department of Financial Services’ Emergency Adjuster Licensing System.
The Department’s Bureau of Licensing issued 17,488 Emergency Adjuster licenses for the four-storm 2004 hurricane season and 12,284 Emergency Adjuster licenses during 2005.
The Florida Insurance Council, the state’s largest non-profit insurance industry trade association, has prepared special White Papers for the news media to use in preparing news stories before, during and after catastrophe strikes.
Here are links to the papers:
http://www.flains.org/content/view/752/51/
http://www.flains.org/content/view/549/51/
They can be found at the Florida Insurance Council website: www.flains.org
Look for the special “Insurance Media” section on the lower left hand side of the FIC homepage.
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