Entries from Searchlight Crusade tagged with 'natural disasters'

Disasters, Insurance, and the Mortgage

after Katrina I am upside down with my mortgage. my house is uninhabitable. My flood insurance check doesn't payoff the mortgage. How can i get a short payoff due to financial hardship - i.e. relocation loss of jobs and...

Hurricane Katrina: Homeowner's Insurance and Wind vs. Water Damage

Punitive damages awarded in Katrina case The Broussards sued State Farm for refusing to pay for any damage to their home, which Katrina reduced to a slab. The couple, who wanted State Farm to pay for the full insured value...

Disasters and the Mortgage

after Katrina I am upside down with my mortgage. my house is uninhabitable. My flood insurance check doesn't payoff the mortgage. How can i get a short payoff due to financial hardship - i.e. relocation loss of jobs and...

Links and Minifeatures 09 22 Thursday

I suspect that this guide to remaining anonymous online is going to be featured by a lot of people today. Given what it is intended to accomplish, the enabling of reporting from within regimes that repress free reporting, I support...

Links and Minifeatures 09 21 Wednesday

Carnival of Vanities is up at the skwib. Recommended: Free Money Finance, Forward Biased, ********** Here we go again! Rita is now Category 4 and headed for Galveston and Houston. Michelle Malkin has a great round up of Rita posts....

Hurricane Katrina Insurance Issues

A few points as to what's likely to happen with this. Hurricane is not a named peril on most policies. Fire, Lightning, and removal (i.e. moving stuff to a safer area after a partial destruction) are three named perils that...

Links and Minifeatures

I'm recommending two charities for Katrina victims. The first is the American Red Cross. The second, for those who remember that humans are not the only ones who suffer, is the AKC CAR fund, which is promising that 100% of...

Links and Minifeatures 08 31 Part II

This article on Duke Cunningham illustrates what I've been saying about federal spending as a tragedy of the commons. ********** To Watchful Investor, I say there are already markets (Southern California, Washington DC) seeing notable deflation of housing prices. Realtors...