Posts tagged insurance

• Some FEMA Trailer Brands More Toxic

  Gerry McGill | March 05, 2008 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Four of the six most commonly used brands of trailers supplied by FEMA for Gulf Coast hurricane victims are among those brands with the highest formaldehyde levels, according to a recent study by the U. S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Air samples from trailers made by Gulf Stream, Keystone, Pilgrim and Forest River contained more than four times the formaldehyde levels that are...

• Homeowners Nightmare. Insurance doesn't cover Chinese drywall damage.

  Gerry McGill | October 23, 2009 11:37 AM | 1 CommentBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Just when you thought you had seen it all with insurance companies, ABC News has released this new report on homeowner's insurance: As a New Orleans federal court holds a hearing today on...

• Homeowner's Chinese Drywall Claim Can Lead to Mortgage Foreclosure

  Gerry McGill | October 19, 2009 12:25 PM | 0 CommentsBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The nightmare begins when you discover that the dream home which you purchased in 2005, at the peak of the housing boom, is contaminated with Chinese Drywall. It continues when you learn that your...

• Mississippi is second worst state for percentage of uninsured motorists

  Gerry McGill | January 29, 2009 5:03 PM | 0 CommentsBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A study by an independent property-casualty insurance research group says that the five states with the highest percentage of uninsured motorists were New Mexico (29%), Mississippi (28%), Alabama...

• Mississippi Gustav victims could lose twice

  Gerry McGill | September 03, 2008 12:53 PM | 0 CommentsBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Miscellaneous
  

  On August 22, 2008 I posted a blog about how Florida flood victims from Tropical Storm Fay could lose twice. Now thanks to Hurricane Gustav, many Mississippi victims may be in the same boat when...

• Florida flood victims may lose twice

  Gerry McGill | August 22, 2008 1:10 PM | 0 CommentsBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Florida homeowners flooded by Tropical Storm Fay may lose twice. The first is when the flood waters recede and they are able to return to their homes. As someone who had his house partially flooded...

• Big Banks Find Another Way to Gouge Homeowners

  Gerry McGill | March 12, 2010 3:29 PM | 0 CommentsBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A couple of weeks ago, ABC News reported on yet another outrage by big banks in the mortgage foreclosure crisis: force placed insurance. While many homeowners choose to place tax and insurance...

• IDA's main danger is flooding.

  Gerry McGill | November 10, 2009 12:24 PM | 0 CommentsBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Nothing is so exhilarating as to be shot at and missed! Winston Churchill cabled back to England when he was a war correspondent covering the Boer war. The same could be said for hurricanes. Thanks...

• FEMA to Let Katrina Victims Move From Trailers Into Hotels

  Gerry McGill | September 05, 2007 4:44 PM | 0 CommentsBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Miscellaneous
  

  FEMA announced yesterday that it will allow 60,000 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina and now living in FEMA-provided trailers on the Gulf Coast to move into hotel or motel rooms if they are concerned about formaldehyde gas in their trailers.The policy shift, made two weeks ago but not widely publicized until now, follows a House committee finding in July that FEMA leaders had suppressed...

• One Storm Forecaster Lowers 2007 Estimate Slightly

  Gerry McGill | August 08, 2007 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Hurricane researcher William Gray lowered his 2007 forecast slightly last week, calling for 15 named storms with 8 becoming hurricanes and 4 becoming intense hurricanes.At the outset of the hurricane season on May 31, Gray had predicted 17 named storms and 9 hurricanes, 5 of them intense. The new forecast by month called for 3 named storms, 2 hurricanes and one intense hurricane in August; 5...