If your business or personal belongings or both suffered damages due to Hurricane Sandy first, my heart goes out to you.\u00a0 I only lost electric and heat and hot water for about 8 days and compared to others it was merely a major annoyance.\u00a0 A friend on Staten Island who is a florist, lost two cars and had his shop completely flooded out.\u00a0 He so far has received a standard (I\u2019m told) check from FEMA for $2,400 which, he tells me, barely makes a dent in his damage expenses.\u00a0 He\u2019s still arguing with his insurance company about his claims. I expect that, unfortunately that may be the case for many people.<\/p>\n
Below is a list of hopefully helpful resources.\u00a0 The NYC.GOV\/311<\/a> gives a 360 on what\u2019s happening and what\u2019s available.\u00a0 Below that are key contacts that should be helpful.\u00a0 And lastly, are two links specifically related to insurance issues due to the storm.<\/p>\n For general information the site below is a general city website that offers a lot of valuable information.<\/p>\n Nyc.gov\/311<\/a> NYC Restoration centers FEMA Recovery Support Nassau County OEM American Red Cross LIPA The link below describes the insurance issues around damages due to the hurricane.\u00a0 It seems insurance deductibles won\u2019t have to be paid \u2013 read more\u2026\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/ny-homeowners-save-storm-related-insurance-cost-article-1.1195254<\/a><\/p>\n For people who have been flooded most are not covered by general insurance. However, there might be options\u2026this link is put out by lawyers who are representing people who were flooded.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.napolibern.com\/Injury-News-Blog\/2012\/November\/Superstorm-Sandy-Flood-Damage-Not-Covered-by-Hom.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sandra Holtzman teaches CEO 035: Licensing<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong> If your business or personal belongings or both suffered damages due to Hurricane Sandy first, my heart goes out to you.\u00a0 I only lost electric and heat and hot water for about 8 days and compared to others it was merely a major annoyance.\u00a0 A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"post-templates\/post-middle-column.php","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8577],"tags":[8576,8615,18695,20,18714,8572,38568],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-giving-back","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-news","tag-relief-efforts","tag-retail","tag-small-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1v7EM-1je","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nShe is the author of Lies Startups Tell Themselves to Avoid Marketing<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"