My expensive firefighter pal Keahi Ho misplaced his residence and boat to the wildfire in Maui whereas saving others and battling the blaze. He and his girlfriend, Ali Grimes, requested me if I may publish one thing for different victims in Maui to assist with their insurance coverage restoration.
The request has a easy answer: Click on on this hyperlink.
There may be not a policyholder group that may be a shut second to United Policyholders. United Policyholders will present you trustworthy and discovered recommendation from greater than 30 years of expertise—particularly from catastrophic widespread loss by hearth. Right here is a few background:
UP was co-founded in 1991 by Amy Bach, a shopper advocate and lawyer, and Ina Delong, a 22 yr insurance coverage skilled. The spark for UP was an city space wildfire that destroyed 3,000 houses in Northern California. Within the aftermath of the catastrophe, the residents struggled with critical and surprising gaps of their insurance coverage protection and a declare course of that was typically adversarial. UP was fashioned to assist stage the enjoying subject between insurers and insureds. Donations, basis grants and volunteer labor assist the group’s work. Our 200+ robust volunteer corps consists of catastrophe survivors, attorneys, insurance coverage professionals, monetary planners, CPAs, building specialists, affected person advocates and retired judges. No insurance coverage corporations underwrite or fund our applications.
…By the Roadmap to Restoration® Program, UP provides ideas, instruments and data from earlier catastrophe survivors and from specialists on insurance coverage claims, authorized issues and the rebuilding/restore course of. We additionally supply instructional workshops and long run restoration providers after disasters (topic to funding and neighborhood assist). UP is devoted to serving to insurance coverage shoppers.
Through the years, I’ve seen that some folks, legislation companies, and different companies have created alleged charitable organizations with the marketed mission to provide free recommendation and assist when the truth is it is step one of their advertising and marketing marketing campaign. They usually attempt to associate with or get a testimonial from anyone outstanding or influential in a neighborhood or neighborhood to indicate up for “free recommendation.” Later, they recommend that their providers can be found with out being clear that this charitable “free recommendation” was all a advertising and marketing marketing campaign from the start, designed to get enterprise from victims.
United Policyholders has no short-term or long-term agenda for promoting you something, simply offering you its greater than 30 years of expertise serving to policyholders get better from a catastrophe. They permit previous survivors to show the brand new victims ideas and classes discovered from coping with the insurance coverage firm.
The Claims Steering Library is superb. It gives samples of loss and claim-related paperwork serving to policyholders with claims.
Go to the United Policyholders web site and share the knowledge with your folks and neighbors.
Thought For The Day
In Hawaii, we have now one thing referred to as ho’oponopono, the place folks come collectively to resolve crises and restore peace and steadiness.
—Duane Chapman
