[FoCHAT] FoCHAT Emails; CHAT Meeting tonight, Wed. 6:30 PM UNO Bus. Bldg. Rm. 212

[Frank Silvestri]

To clarify what happened in Florida
   
  In a period of 2 years of storm losses, 04 and 05, I think, Florida's insurance losses were 2.2 million claims and the insuarnce industry paid out 37 billion to satisfy those claims. 
   
  The point was that there is a model in the private sector and we dont need to reinvent the wheel to handle 100,000 claims with 7.5 billion dollars available (less about 10% for administrative costs) to pay them. It is simply a matter of getting a fair number for people and paying them, closing files. It shouldn't take 2-3 years to do that here which is what the present pace suggests.
   
  fas

Melanie Ehrlich <mehrlich8 at yahoo.com> wrote:
      Dear FoCHAT Members,
   
  Thanks to the hard work of Karen, Ray, Tim, and Alan we have just greatly expanded and activated our fochat email list via Alan's excellent thinknola network.  Previously, I sent messages by yahoo to you but now there are way too many of us for Yahoo emails because Yahoo thought I was scamming when I sent to even half of the addresses at a time.
   
  If you want to unsubscribe from this list you should have instructions on how to do so, and I will ask the above organizers of this list to resend those instructions and send detailed instructions as to the nature of the messages to be sent. 
   
  This network has already proven invaluable just in a few days. 
   
   I do want to request that we treat this as a medium only for important, information-packed, data-based messages, not for comments of a subjective nature or thank you's. 
   
  With so many subscribers and potential senders of messages, I know that many of us will unsubscribe if we get too many messages from this list. In that case, it will lose its effectiveness. If we can keep this network restricted to essential messages, members of the Executive Board will be able to inform the general membership of FoCHAT more often about developments because of the ease of using this system that has so nicely been set up for us by members of the CHAT Outreach Committee.
   
  Reminder: 
   
  Any of you may come to the CHAT meeting tonight at 6:30 PM. If you attend meetings, you will be a core CHAT member. If you just are part of our email network, you will be a FoCHAT member.
   
  UNO Old Bus. Admin. Rm. 212 on Wed. 6:30.
  Directions to the Business Bldg  are given on the Campus Map for UNO. The URL is http://www.uno.edu/university/maps/maincamp.cfm.
   
  The Business Bldg is #7 on the map.
   
  Best wishes,
   
  Melanie 
   
  Melanie Ehrlich
  Co-Chairman, CHAT
     
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        Date:  Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:08:01 -0600    From:  "Randall Toepfer" <randall.toepfer at gmail.com>    To:  fochat at thinknola.com    Subject:  Re: [FoCHAT] The Road to nowhere???    HTML Attachment [ Scan and Save to Computer | Save to Yahoo! Briefcase ] 

  Meera,

If you would have attended the CHAT meeting at UNO last week, you'd probably have a different opinion.  

At the meeting, Frank Silvestri spoke on how Florida experienced 8 hurricanes, and how Florida was able to successfully distribute grants to over 2 million people in a 2 year period.  The process was successful because Florida allowed the insurance industry to distribute the funds.  The insurance industry has the experience and manpower necessary for such a large task. 

That's 2 million closures - Louisiana has only 100,000 Road Home applications!!!  The current situation is unacceptable.  

The state drew up a ridiculous contract without any performance guarantees, and ICF is a systems engineering company that does not have any experience comparable to a large insurance company. 


Randall T.



  On 1/23/07, geauxp at charter.net <geauxp at charter.net > wrote:   TimeLine as I see it: RoadHome only got 197 closings done in the last several weeks. They are in process of hiring and training closing staff and also acquiring a building large enough to do hundreds of closings at once. I think you will see in the next few weeks that the numbers of closings will grow exponentially. I takes time to handle a project as big as this. Yes, mistakes will be made but it's a new project and it takes time to set up. Don't think I am in any way going to defend gross mistakes like the first 10k letters that went out. That was a disaster. THANKS Meera 



    
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