Lawyers hope to fix catastrophe related insurance problems

The nation’s lawyers who deal with insurance issues are developing policy recommendations designed to improve access to insurance coverage, reduce litigation over coverage and mitigate future losses involving natural catastrophes. Insurance lawyers of the American Bar Association (ABA) see inadequate access to insurance, disputes over insurance coverage, critical need for immediate access to cash, devastating property damage as some of the problems that surface after natural catastrophes, from forest fires in Western states, to flooding in the Midwest and damage from hurricanes or other massive storms in the East and South.