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Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Florida Valued Policy Law & Hurricane Irma
We recently received a requested blog topic for the following: FL Value Policy Law as it would apply with Hurricane Irma. If we have an insured with a Citizens policy…
Access to Justice and Legal Aid
The State Bar of Texas is Changing Lives Through Pro Bono Work
To celebrate National Pro Bono Week, we're highlighting the great pro bono work being done by attorneys, firms, and bar association. Today we're featuring the State Bar of Texas, which…
Tilting the Scales
Washed Away: What Rights Do You Have When Your Home is Flooded?
By Drew York
Co-authors: JP Vogel and Tim Fandrey Bill Deron bought a 100-acre tract next to a creek outside the City of Houston. Deron planned to build a subdivision where some of…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
TWIA Is Acting with Wrongful Impunity Against Texans
By Chip Merlin
Rene Sigman is co-chairing an important Hurricane Harvey seminar today discussing all the Hurricane Harvey issues. Yours truly is on a panel discussing how Hurricane Harvey differs from other hurricane…
Disaster Prep & Recovery
Tulane Offers Free Tuition to Puerto Rican Students Displaced by Hurricane
By Graham Ryan
Twelve years following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, when universities and colleges around the country embraced Tulane students displaced by the storm, Tulane has announced that it will offer a…
Disaster Prep & Recovery
Federal Contract Requirements Post-Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria: Part 1—National Interest Exemptions
The disaster wrought by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria has also occasioned a flood of federal relief dollars into the areas impacted. Projects seeking federal funding must meet a variety…
Texas Bar Blog
South Texas College of Law Houston hosts Harvey relief training
A seminar was held to provide lawyers Hurricane Harvey disaster relief training on October 11 at South Texas College of Law Houston. Saundra Brown, of Lone Star Legal Aid’s Disaster…
InsureReinsure
Texas Department of Insurance Warns Against Improper Underwriting After Hurricane Harvey
By Jon Gillum, Troutman Pepper Locke
The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has cautioned insurers against improper underwriting activities in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Specifically, TDI issued Commissioner’s Bulletin # B-0032017 on September 21, 2017,…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Uninsured or Underinsured in the Wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria?
Hurricane Irma: If you are a homeowner, business owner, or renter affected by Hurricane Irma, you still may be able to receive certain benefits through the Federal Emergency Management Agency…
The Right Coast
Trump s Handling Of Hurricane Maria Is Getting Really Bad Marks | FiveThirtyEight
President Trump has been hammered for the government s response to Hurricane Maria and the devastation it wrought in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and elsewhere. And new polling…