Insurance Claims - Don't Be in a Hurry!
Tornadoes, Floods, Wildfires…and we just began Hurricane Season! After the March tornadoes, I posted a Top Ten List of extremely important things to do after your property is damaged in a disaster. In the next ten postings, I’m going to expand on each of the strategies in the Top Ten List. Back in March, we here in the metro Atlanta area had an F4 tornado strike the downtown area of Atlanta. That tornado did about $300 million in damages. About a month later, another group of twisters hit between Atlanta and Macon, doing about the same amount of damage. Now, we’re seeing tornadoes all over the middle of the USA, and massive flooding has struck four or five states, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. And don’t forget the wildfires charring Southern California. But…cheer up! We have a long Hurricane Season that began June 1, and goes until the end of November!! The first strategy in the Top Ten List is….SLOW DOWN. How many times have you heard an...