Insurance maquis in Danger Come Back
NEW ORLEANS _ were 11,256 bottles of wine in the cellar of Antoine’s Restaurant, on the morning of 29 August, when Hurricane Katrina struck, some of them rare, most of them expensive and all of ruin ‘amongst themselves, if performance is not air-conditioning and death ruinous heat and humidity of New Orleans late summer are no longer obliged to bride.
But the restaurant manager said that the insurance company that covered the cave, rather than quickly settle a law on the value of the entire collection, proposed haggling over the cost of each bottle, because the restaurant must _ replace a laborious process, they expect that, take years.
In the meantime, every day, the emblem French Quarter restaurant remains closed while the storm struggle to repair the damage and assembly of its staff _, it has more than 100 days and _ Antoine’s loses more than 17000 $ Earning potential. But leaders complain that the insurance company, the restaurant’s business-break compared to only $ 250000 so far on the loss, which is more likely that the policy limit of $ 1.9 million.
“You sell your business interruption insurance to prevent the operation, a catastrophe, but it turns out that this is not how it works,” said Rick Blount, Antoine Chief Executive Officer and the Ur-Ur-grandchildren of the founder’s Restaurant, Hopes that the reopening of Saint evening. “It is ultimately pay, but not in time to save.”
After the wind, flooding, deaths and massive destruction, the fight for the rights of insurance, as New Orleans’ next great anguish. The city is silent, blowing dust from roads, lined with houses destroyed 110000, are still awaiting the return of three quarters of the population in exile, and the reopening of marquee attractions as the Palace of Congress, the Superdome, the legendary path iron and road three lines Area restaurants.
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