Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog

Hunton & Williams' Insurance Recovery Team Head, Walter Andrews, was spotlighted in an article published in the Houston Chronicle last week regarding insurance for losses from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. While the storms were devastating in their own unique ways – Harvey with extensive flooding; Irma with extreme wind and storm surge – both have substantially impacted local and national businesses.  As Andrews explains, "if you don't have any customers, or if they can't access your facilities, you don't have business.  Many businesses are facing vast amounts of lost earnings during the time it takes to repair hurricane-related damage." Local business owners facing huge losses have a financial lifeline in the form of business-interruption coverage in their property policies.  Likewise, distant businesses impacted by the storms likely have contingent business interruption coverage that will apply if a business or customer they depend on suffered damage from one of the storms – even if that damage occurred hundreds of miles away from the insured business.

For more information, please visit our Hurricane Insurance Recovery and Advisory center.