Swamped by claims

Saturday 28th August 2010, 2:57PM BST.

Mopping up at the Halkett Bar on Thursday afternoon

Mopping up at the Halkett Bar on Thursday afternoon

Insurance companies have been inundated with phone calls as a result of Thursday’s flash floods.

Tim Wiseman, commercial insurance broker for Cherry Godfrey said that they had been ‘inundated with claim requests’ since the flooding subsided, and that brokers were working to do everything they could to help businesses.

Despite a large number of homes and businesses facing lengthy clearing processes, Islanders were being advised not to panic and seek advice immediately.


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    God's Mentor

    Typical JEP over exaggerating again. See also ‘Town’s Businesses are Devastated by Floods’ story – the amount of ‘flooding’ in most of the businesses was sorted with a mop and bucket & nearly all opened as usual the following day. Now does that really constitute devastation?

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