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Proving Your Insurance Claim

By Daniel G. Lentz and Ryan D. Pratt
January 02, 2008

The catastrophic losses resulting from the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina highlighted many of the issues that face policyholders in the wake of a disaster. Many companies have taken lessons from those events and developed business-continuity plans to protect their people and assets and to restore operations as quickly as possible.

While these plans are instrumental in restoring a company's operations, many miss an important aspect of any continuity plan ' the programs and protocols that must be in place to prove losses related to the incident and recover funds from an insurance company.

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