My expensive firefighter pal Keahi Ho misplaced his dwelling and boat to the wildfire in Maui whereas saving others and battling the blaze. He and his girlfriend, Ali Grimes, requested me if I might put up one thing for different victims in Maui to assist with their insurance coverage restoration.
The request has a easy resolution: Click on this hyperlink.
There is just not a policyholder group that could be a shut second to United Policyholders. United Policyholders will present you trustworthy and realized recommendation from greater than 30 years of expertise—particularly from catastrophic widespread loss by hearth. 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. In the aftermath of the catastrophe, the residents struggled with severe and surprising gaps of their insurance coverage protection and a declare course of that was typically adversarial. UP was fashioned to assist degree the enjoying area between insurers and insureds. Donations, basis grants and volunteer labor help the group’s work. Our 200+ sturdy volunteer corps consists of catastrophe survivors, legal professionals, insurance coverage professionals, monetary planners, CPAs, building consultants, affected person advocates and retired judges. No insurance coverage corporations underwrite or fund our applications.
…Through the Roadmap to Recovery® Program, UP gives ideas, instruments and data from earlier catastrophe survivors and from consultants on insurance coverage claims, authorized issues and the rebuilding/restore course of. We additionally supply instructional workshops and long run restoration companies after disasters (topic to funding and neighborhood help). UP is devoted to serving to insurance coverage customers.
Over the years, I’ve observed that some folks, regulation corporations, and different companies have created alleged charitable organizations with the marketed mission to provide free recommendation and assist when in reality it is step one of their advertising marketing campaign. They sometimes attempt to accomplice with or get a testimonial from someone distinguished or influential in a neighborhood or neighborhood to point out up for “free advice.” Later, they recommend that their companies can be found with out being clear that this charitable “free advice” was all a advertising 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 realized from coping with the insurance coverage firm.
The Claims Guidance Library is superb. It gives samples of loss and claim-related paperwork serving to policyholders with claims.
Visit the United Policyholders web site and share the data with your pals and neighbors.
Thought For The Day
In Hawaii, now we have one thing referred to as ho’oponopono, the place folks come collectively to resolve crises and restore peace and steadiness.
—Duane Chapman