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Hurricanes
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Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Nationwide Insurance Commercial Customers Should Check Their Policies for Dependent Property Lost Income Coverage
By Chip Merlin
Some insurance policies have small print that can provide significant business income benefits under "dependent properties" that usually go unnoticed following a widespread catastrophe. I would encourage Nationwide and Nationwide…
Insurance Law Hawaii
Galveston One Year After Hurricane Ike
You first notice the trees. Approaching Galveston on its main thoroughfare, Broadway Avenue, the trees still stand bare, stripped of all foliage after being seared all night one year ago by…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
An Invitation To Jim Oliver and TWIA To Attend Our Hurricane Ike Seminar This Friday In Houston
By Chip Merlin
As a follow-up to my post on Saturday, TWIA Insurance Claims Under Investigation by Regulators and Media--An Invite to TWIA Claims Executives to a Public Meeting in Houston Next Friday…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Are There Going to Be Any Hurricanes in 2009?
By Chip Merlin
I get asked that question quite often. Doing what I do for a living, given my last name, and having proven my prognostication prowess (with money backing up my opinion)…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
TWIA and Its Customers Prepare to Go Before the Texas Insurance Commissioner
By Chip Merlin
The Houston Chronicle ran an article by Purva Patel today, See what blew in with Ike: a battle, which explains the lifted shingle issue at the heart of numerous Hurricane…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Total Destruction Caused By Hurricane Wind and Flood May Be Covered Under the Additional Coverage of Collapse: Why Defining a “Hurricane” as a “Windstorm” is Significant
By Chip Merlin
Insurance defense attorneys will not agree with this post. However, they fear the argument enough to falsely argue in some cases that a hurricane is not a “windstorm,” in order…
Marler Blog
Hurricane Bill Heads towards the East Coast
Adapted from AP: The first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season has gathered strength with sustained hot air of up to 135 mph, the US National Hurricane Centre said. Hurricane…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Texas Coastal Areas are Still Reeling From Hurricanes Ike and Gustav: Insurance Claim Denials and Delays are Prevalent
By Chip Merlin
I just finished a two day settlement conference of a commercial insurance claim dispute held on the 51st floor of Fulbright & Jaworski in Houston. The view from the conference room…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Protective Safeguard and State Farm Discounts Disappearing: The Fleeting Loyalty of Insurers to Customers
By Chip Merlin
Two significant pieces of information show a continued trend in the property insurance business and suggests that insurance customers should not rely on the loyalty of their insurance companies. An article by…
florida ROC
Can I use our community clubhouse as a hurricane shelter?
By Scott Gordon
Another hurricane season has arrived in Florida and with every approaching tropical storm system I expect to receive at least one call from an ROC manager or board member asking whether…