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Majority of Calif. Insurers Agree to More-Responsive Claims Handling Practices
January 25, 2011
Majority of Calif. Insurers Agree to More-Responsive Claims Handling Practices

California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said a group of insurers, that represent 72.1 percent of the homeowners’ multi-peril insurance market, have agreed to comply with voluntary reforms to the claims handling process — the effect of which means consumers will have more-responsive claims handling practices.…

Commissioner Poizner Warns Santa Barbara Homeowners To Prepare For Wildfires
January 18, 2011
Commissioner Poizner Warns Santa Barbara Homeowners To Prepare For Wildfires
Help during the rebuilding process
January 12, 2011
Help during the rebuilding process

Grass is beginning to grow on the vacant sites where homes once stood four months after the fatal San Bruno explosion and fire, leading residents to consider restarting their lives but some may have questions about the details of construction. The Sept. 9 blast completely…

Even with insurance, being made whole takes work
November 2, 2010
Even with insurance, being made whole takes work

Owners or renters of the homes destroyed or damaged in the fire that tore through a San Bruno neighborhood Thursday are staring at a long and challenging process to recoup their losses. Getting paid the full amount they’re entitled to for their dwellings, possessions and…

Rebuilding tips for disaster victims
November 2, 2010
Rebuilding tips for disaster victims

Even though many of the fire victims are still in shock, they must still pull it together and start of the process of rebuilding and this type of tragedy is what homeowners insurance is all about. But dealing with the loss isn’t always like one…

San Bruno fire victims navigate insurance process
November 2, 2010
San Bruno fire victims navigate insurance process

Though city officials are shifting their focus to help rebuild the neighborhood where a natural gas pipeline exploded last month, the pace of recovery will depend largely on how quickly the money starts to flow in. To that end, dozens of residents with destroyed or…

County has provided mental health services for victims of ’07 fires
June 22, 2010
County has provided mental health services for victims of ’07 fires

After his Fallbrook home was destroyed in the 2007 wildfires, Richard McDonnell realized that his friends didn’t understand his sense of loss, the grieving for destroyed heirlooms or the frustration over the the slow rebuilding process. Then McDonnell, 63, began attending the weekly group meetings…

Q & A about fire insurance
June 22, 2010
Q & A about fire insurance

Group that learned from the ’91 Oakland blaze provides step-by-step help for rebuilding your life. Even though Southern Californians have endured countless disasters, they rarely are prepared when one hits them. Amy Bach, a San Francisco attorney, has spent her career helping people recover from…

California Roundtable To Create Incentives for Disaster Preparation, Fire Mitigation
June 22, 2010
California Roundtable To Create Incentives for Disaster Preparation, Fire Mitigation

After bringing together insurance industry executives, consumer groups and fire officials to discuss preparations for future potential fire disasters at a roundtable held on May 12, 2008, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced an effort to create economic or other incentives for insurers and consumers…

UP participates in Mitigation Roundtable Hosted by CA. Comm’r Poizner
June 22, 2010
UP participates in Mitigation Roundtable Hosted by CA. Comm’r Poizner

Commissioner Hosts Wildfire Preparedness and Mitigation Roundtable with Insurance Industry, Consumer Groups and Fire Officials in San Diego SAN DIEGO: After bringing together insurance industry executives, consumer groups and fire officials to discuss preparations for future potential fire disasters, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced an…

From Risk to Opportunity: Insurer Responses to Climate Change
June 10, 2010
From Risk to Opportunity: Insurer Responses to Climate Change
For a Yorba Linda family, fighting fire with paperwork
June 9, 2010
For a Yorba Linda family, fighting fire with paperwork

The wildfire survivor profiled in this Orange County Register article has been attending United Policyholders’ Roadmap to Recovery meetings and was pictured in our spring newsletter receiving her copy of the Disaster Recovery Handbook and Household Inventory Guide. Readers mourned and complained when we ended…

Four Things You Should Know About Your Fire Insurance Claim
June 9, 2010
Four Things You Should Know About Your Fire Insurance Claim

California’s burning, again; the flames north of Los Angeles, also known as the Station Fire, have already killed two people, and are threatening tens of thousands of homes, causing the governor to declare a state of emergency in Los Angeles and Monterey counties. So of…

Post fire claim advice: After the fire comes the adjuster
June 9, 2010
Post fire claim advice: After the fire comes the adjuster

In July, when fire tore through the Northwest mansion belonging to local activist and arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz, it set off what is likely to be a long journey toward rebuilding. Facing total loss, Cafritz hired a public insurance adjuster to estimate the dollar…

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