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Homeowners’ insurance crisis meeting


By Bob Morgan
(Created: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:05 AM CDT) More Local News

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DAPHNE, Ala. — The effects of back-to-back hurricanes in 2004-2005 are still being felt by thousands of property owners who live along Alabama’s coastal areas. The battering now isn’t winds or storm surges but the cost of homeowners’ insurance and insurance cancellations that have been taking place since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina slammed the area a year after Hurricane Ivan.

Coastal Baldwin Churches’ Community Organization will hold a meeting on Thursday, Aug. 28, at 7 p.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Daphne in an attempt to address the insurance crisis, explore solutions and, according to a flyer about the meeting, “unite and challenge the Insurance Companies!!”

CBCCO is an organization under ACT-II, a coalition of county churches that has banned together to address social problems in the area. ACT-II (All Churches Together) is under the auspices of Ecumenical Ministries Inc.

Since late 2007, CBCCO members have been visiting homes and talking to homeowners about the property insurance crisis and hearing stories of insurance cancellations and insurance costs tripling, according to CBCCO members.

The group has also been talking to state legislators and other elected officials as well as insurance agencies in researching the ongoing crisis.

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church is located at 8271 Whispering Pines Rd., just east of the YMCA.

For more information, call the church at 251-621-2968 or Al Carlson at 980-1813.











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charicia wrote on Aug 26, 2008 1:09 PM:

" The State of Alabama needs to either forbid insurance companies from denying hurricane insurance and if they do, then they should not be allowed to sell any other type of insurance in the State. Alabama needs to get into the insurance business if private insurance companies refuse to offer hurricane insurance. Look at it as a utility that the State has an obligation to provide. "

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