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Miami Herald on recovery in Christchurch
Wednesday’s edition of the Miami Herald has an interesting article on the slow pace of recovery in Christchurch, the extent of the struggle people face from bureaucracies, and especially the bottleneck...
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More on AA Insurance’s sum insured house policies
AA Insurance have updated their Sum Insured FAQs (here). More topics are covered and additional information has been provided. The topics covered are: What are the changes happening to your home...
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Chief Executive of the Insurance Council on various things
On Tuesday Tim Grafton, chief executive of the Insurance Council of New Zealand (ICNZ), gave an address to the Canterbury Branch of The New Zealand Insurance Law Association. His address is available...
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IAG updates
IAG have released three updates for their customers. They are: APRIL 2013 Earthquake claimant newsletter MARCH 2013 Canterbury Recovery – typical steps to repair your home MARCH 2013...
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Red Zone court decision–the view of the Insurance Council
The Insurance Council of New Zealand (ICNZ) issued a media release (dated 5 April) on the interim court decision concerning the Red Zoned Dallington couple. The ICNZ’s view is here, and reproduced...
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AA Insurance – progress reports
AA Insurance have created an Our Progress webpage where customers can see what progress is being made with repairs and rebuilds. The page currently shows progress up until the end of January 2013, and...
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Over-cap and got creeping mould or weather-tightness issues?
Australian insurance news website InsuranceNEWS reports the CEO of the Insurance Council of New Zealand as encouraging all owners of over-cap earthquake damaged homes to contact their insurers if there...
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Canterbury recovery insurance report
The Insurance Council of New Zealand have released the latest statistics on apportionment decisions, assessments, money spent and claims being processed. Click the link for the report. Insurers...
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AA Insurance progress update
AA Insurance have posted their progress figures for the period to 20 May here. .
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Progress update – AA Insurance
AA Insurance have published their progress figures as of June here.
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Sum Insured update – AA Insurance’s guidelines for Canterbury homeowners (and...
AA Insurance have added a whole set of Q&As to their website for Cantabrians, to assist in coming to grips with the new method of insuring houses. As AA Insurance seem to be the trendsetters for...
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AA Insurance – Sum insured for Canterbury customers – cover for retaining...
AA have updated their new policy information to include two questions and answers relating to retaining walls (they are basically the same question put twice) here. While the answers have significant...
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Sum insured – what amount should you insure your house for? What could go wrong?
As mentioned in previous posts, future house insurance policies will be based upon what YOU have assessed as being the cost of rebuilding. This isn’t just the cost of time and materials, it also...
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Insurers – Changing a rebuild to a repair.
Today’s Press has an article by Lane Neave law firm partner Dr Duncan Webb on insurers changing a rebuild into a repair. This article is part of an on-going “agony uncle” series on how the law applies...
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AA Insurance – progress update
AA Insurance have added progress figures for July here. It is interesting to note that so far AAI have completed only four rebuilds out of a total 674. Of the 674 nearly half (326) have been cash...
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Another Red Zone rebuild reversal
A Red Zoner, having signed off with CERA just before the 31st of July, has now had the house that was a rebuild reclassified as a repair. .
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Where to from here for ICNZ?
First, a minor correction regarding yesterday’s post. The title, as originally posted, was almost what was intended, but not quite so my apologies for that. It was a bit of tongue in cheek and there...
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Assessing the ICNZ Revised Fair Insurance Code – Part 2
As we get further into the Revised Code the number of new issues raised slows down. Where the Revised Code deals with straight-out mechanical areas it works better and there is more clarity about what...
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ICNZ make a more detailed response.
Thursday’s blog covered the Insurance Council of New Zealand’s (ICNZ) response to an article on an insurance business website. The article featured the Avonside Blog’s commentary on the revised Fair...
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