Chicago, IL (Vocus) January 14, 2009
– Inadequate access to insurance, disputes more than insurance coverage coverage, critical need for quick access to cash, devastating home damage–all of these are difficulties resulting from natural catastrophes, from forest fires in Western states, to flooding in the Midwest and harm from hurricanes or other massive storms in the East and South.

While there have been attempts to address catastrophe troubles piece-meal, the American Bar Association Section of Tort Trial and Insurance Practice has created a series of policy proposals to be deemed by the ABA House of Delegates, the association’s policy-making body, when it meets in Boston for the ABA Midyear Meeting, Feb. 11-17. These proposals represent a extensive set of integrated and extremely interdependent measures, to decrease litigation soon after catastrophes, minimize danger of loss from future catastrophe and aid potential victims of disasters to come.

Proposals incorporate ones that: