Survivors of Katrina face next mission to deal with the insurance company
NEW ORLEANS _ Charles and Laura Lepage has spent over 50 years to upgrade their house Lower Ninth Ward, buying carpets and silk curtains emphasis on their Top marble furniture and hardwood floors, crystal chandeliers and lamps porcelain. His garden was Inondé shrubs and colorful flowers.
Well, ramp black mold, its walls, collectors are broken pieces of furniture and mildewed is in a control on the job.
Despite the near-total devastation, LePages want to rebuild and restart. But they are finding that the second wave of Hurricane Katrina is the anger of the management of the insurance company.
“Nobody something,” said Lepage, he noted that workers out once the elements of his beloved homeland. “We are totally dissatisfied with progress on the insurance market. Anything that is to maintain salary. ”
Almost three months after Katrina, New Orleans drowned Gulf of Mexico and other municipalities, frustrations are mounting for residents whose homes and property were wastes of the storm.
As the LePages, most want to familiarize themselves with their lives, but they are a little more difficult to achieve a home in their insurance companies. You have trouble meeting with the adjustment, and they always have money to see, paid on claims.
Many believe that insurance companies are points on damages must be paid, and disputes that are mounting.
“Here, we are still waiting,” said Lepage daughter Laura Ann, whose New Orleans is flooded the house was about 3 metres above the water. “Nothing can be done. You are simple, really.
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