Insurance may help with financial recovery, but seismic retrofits help protect lives, buildings, and long-term investments. As an apartment owner, you’ve worked hard to build your assets. Ongoing research continues to reinforce Southern California’s seismic risk, making proactive measures like seismic retrofitting an essential step in protecting both people and […]
Insurance carriers closely monitor California’s earthquake liabilities, similar to how they track trends in fire, flood, hurricanes, and other hazards that lead to property damage, injury, or death claims. Seismologists’ warnings that California is overdue for a major earthquake have raised concerns among property owners and insurance actuaries. As the […]
Nobody should be caught without insurance. It’s an essential tool to guard against excessive risk associated with our automobiles, our property, our health, even our lives.
But while insurance may help to cushion the blow of an accident or worse, it does nothing to prevent these adversities from occurring.
If you own […]
San Diego is more seriously at risk of earthquake devastation than previously thought.
A new, five-year study unveiled this year by the Engineering and Environmental Research Institute projects grim outcomes for the San Diego area should the Rose Canyon fault explode with a devastating 6.9-magnitude earthquake:
-Appeared on Southern California Rental Housing Association.
Nobody likes to think about insurance, but it is important to guard yourself and your assets against the “what if’s.”
What if I get in a car accident? What if a member of my family becomes […]
News accounts of the Northridge earthquake of 1994 presented shocking images of the widespread destruction, the loss of life, and the injuries suffered from the 6.7 magnitude blind-reverse-thrust quake, which produced the largest ground motions ever recorded in an urban environment in the U.S.
Fifty-seven people were killed; more than 40,000 […]
(As published in California Apartment Association’s Industry Newsletter)
A record number of Californians are getting earthquake insurance, and more and more cities throughout the state are passing laws to make buildings safer in a quake.
In 2016, the number of people signing up for an earthquake policy […]
