Evolve Insurance Agency has learned that a temporary "Insurance Village" has been set-up in coordination with the Florida Department of Financial Services, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, and more than 40 insurance carriers in Clearwater, Florida. An insurance village is an area established near the landfall of a catastrophic hurricane that puts insurance representative "boots on the ground" in an effort to assist insurance policyholders with filing an insurance claim, and providing immediate access to funds for "Additional Living Expenses" for those who are displaced as a result of covered hurricane damage. Since areas that are hard hit by a hurricane can cut off normal means of communication, this is a way to get insurance representatives in the area for face-to-face assistance and allows for a way to get policy proceeds to the hardest hit customers as fast as possible.
Insurance Village Location: Pinellas County at the Clearwater Parks & Recreation Long Center
Address: 1501 North Belcher Rd, Clearwater, FL 33765
Hours of Operation: Friday through Sunday (10/04/2024 - 10/06/2024) from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Insurance Companies in Attendance:
- AAA
- Allstate
- American Integrity
- American Traditions
- Assurant
- Castle Key
- Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
- Edison
- Florida Farm Bureau
- Florida Peninsula
- Frontline / First Protective
- GEICO
- Heritage Insurance
- Homeowners Choice
- Homesite
- Kin Insurance
- Manatee Insurance Exchange
- Monarch
- National General/Beyond Flood
- Neptune Flood
- Orange Insurance Exchange
- Ovation Insurance Exchange
- People's Trust
- Progressive / ASI
- Safe Harbor Insurance Company
- SafePoint Insurance Company
- Security First Insurance Company
- Slide Insurance
- Southern Oak
- State Farm
- Tower Hill
- TypTap
- Universal P&C
- US Coastal P&C
- USAA
- Wright National Flood
Other Insurance Related Entities in Attendance:
- Department of Business & Professional Regulation
- DFS Division of Consumer Services
- DFS Criminal Investigations Division
- Insurance Consumer Advocate
- National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP/FEMA)
- Profile Gorilla
- Office of Insurance Regulation
- The Office of Senator Rick Scott
If you are insured with one of these companies, and would like face-to-face asssistance with filing your claim or you need immediate funds to get into temporary housing, then you should visit this location for immediate help.
Hurricane Helene made landfall near Perry, FL on Thursday, September 26, 2024 as a Category 4 hurricane and continued on a path through Georgia and into the Appalachian mountains. With Helene's massive size, immense moisture content, and quick speed, it resulted in catastrophic storm surge damage to thousands of homes up and down the gulf coast and a once-in-a-lifetime river flooding event throughout the Appalachian mountains leveling towns acorss western North Carolina. Hurricane Helene has been linked to over 200 deaths making it the second deadliest hurricane to hit the United States, trailing only Hurricane Katrina.
Evolve Insurance Agency is here and ready to assist our clients who suffered damage as a result of Hurricane Helene. To file a claim, please contact our claim department at 941-244-2760, option 2.
Thank You,
Evolve Insurance Agency
Photo Credit: Edison Insurance Company