A Florida Association of Independent Agents catastrophe team will be dispatched to Mississippi on Monday to assist the Mississippi Association of Independent Agents.
FAIA offered assistance to the Mississippi association and they graciously accepted, according to the latest FAIA Hurricane Memorandum.
Kyle Ulrich, Fred Phelps and Jeff Odom will be carrying ACORD forms, office supplies, several generators, personal supplies and other essentials to Mississippi to aid in the association’s recovery efforts.
The association reports that, due to limited lodging and transportation routes, Florida agents have experienced difficulty assisting their colleagues in stricken areas.
FAIA is asking FAIA members, those who can, to provide office space and assist with lodging for agents who need help so they can take claims remotely. Any agency that has office space available or has service personnel available and is willing to have claim calls diverted to their office for processing has been asked to contact Jennifer Pitts at FAIA’s headquarters in Tallahassee, at 850-893-4155 ext. 328. Pitts said she will pass this information on to the affected state associations and to IIABA which is coordinating the effort.
FAIA has received calls from member agencies offering to hire displaced agency/company personnel from Katrina-affected states.
“While these offers are certainly being made in the spirit of compassion, there is a great deal of sensitivity that must be assigned to this subject due to the on going plight of many agencies in the disaster area trying to recover,” Jeff Grady, FAIA president and CEO explained. “FAIA will monitor this situation carefully. If your agency would like to offer employment to displaced agency/company personnel, FAIA will maintain a discreet database of this information.”
Pitts said that as FAIA receives inquiries from individual insurance professionals seeking employment in Florida it will make every attempt to verify the agency/company situation from which the person is leaving and match the interested parties, if appropriate.
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