{"id":141,"date":"2009-03-01T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noyeshallallen.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/01\/maine-ins-commissioner-consider-flood-insurance\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T08:54:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:54:05","slug":"maine-ins-commissioner-consider-flood-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/maine-ins-commissioner-consider-flood-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Ins. Commissioner: Consider Flood Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both;\">Two days after <a title=\"Our Feb. 18 post\" href=\"http:\/\/riskebusiness.typepad.com\/risk_ebusiness\/2009\/02\/every-property-is-in-a-flood-zone.html\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> on our blog, Maine&#8217;s Insurance Superintendent, <a title=\"Superintendent Kofman's bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maine.gov\/pfr\/insurance\/superintendent.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Mila Kofman<\/a>, echoed our recommendation to consider flood insurance, especially following this winter&#8217;s heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/riskebusiness.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e5540bfd478834011168a1b69f970c-pi\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"274\" align=\"left\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Her <a title=\"Burea of Insurance bulletin: Feb. 20, 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maine.gov\/tools\/whatsnew\/index.php?topic=INS-PressReleases&amp;id=68463&amp;v=Default\" target=\"_blank\">bulletin<\/a> points out that &#8220;now is the time for home and business owners to seriously consider the advantages of flood insurance&#8221;. She further points out that 9 of 11 federal disaster declarations in Maine from 2000 to 2008 involved spring flooding, and that the damages &#8220;impacted every county in Maine on multiple occasions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">Don&#8217;t forget that flood damage is not covered by homeowners or standard business policies, and that the National Flood Insurance Program has a mandatory 30 day waiting period before coverage takes effect (unless it&#8217;s a new property purchase). Now really IS the time to think about protecting your property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">For more information about flood coverage, visit the Bureau of Insurance&#8217;s <a title=\"Flood Insurance info from the Bureau of Insurance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maine.gov\/insurance\/flood\" target=\"_blank\">flood information page<\/a>, read our <a title=\"EVERY property is in a flood zone\" href=\"http:\/\/riskebusiness.typepad.com\/risk_ebusiness\/2009\/02\/every-property-is-in-a-flood-zone.html\" target=\"_blank\">February 18 blog post<\/a>, or contact us via our <a title=\"EVERY Property is in a \" href=\"http:\/\/riskebusiness.typepad.com\/risk_ebusiness\/2009\/02\/every-property-is-in-a-flood-zone.html\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a title=\"NHA Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a>, or on <a title=\"Follow us on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NHAIns\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after this post on our blog, Maine&#8217;s Insurance Superintendent, Mila Kofman, echoed our recommendation to consider flood insurance, especially following this winter&#8217;s heavy snowfall. Her bulletin points out that &#8220;now is the time for home and business owners to seriously consider the advantages of flood insurance&#8221;. She further points out that 9 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-insurance","category-weather","tag-flood-insurance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4802,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/4802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}