Insurance Is Unlikely To Address Landslides
Insurance companies claim that it would be unfair to the vast number of policyholders who have no risk of landslide damage to their homes to expect them to shoulder the financial burden of insuring the relatively small number of homeowners who are at risk of having their homes damaged by landslides. This is of particular concern to homeowners residing in San Diego County where numerous homes have recently been damaged by landslides. Patrick E. Catalano is quoted in the article.
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Landslides May Leave Homeowners Without Options
Following landslide damage, homeowners are generally limited to three sources of money for repairs. Those three sources are an insurance company, themselves or a governmental agency. Patrick E. Catalano is quoted in the article.
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Oceanside To Fund Effort To Halt Homes From Sliding
The city has agreed to fund an effort to drain water from the sliding hillside, to continue to petition the federal government for relief for homeowners, and to share data with the homeowners from ongoing geological investigations conducted by the city. Patrick E. Catalano is quoted in the article.
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Study Of Slide Zone Goes Underground
An outside engineering firm hired by the city has bored a hole into the landslide area large enough for a geologist to be lowered into to begin investigating the cause of the landslide. Patrick E. Catalano is referenced in the article.
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