Mobile Affirmation Offices accomplished to hardest hit areas

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Mobile Affirmation Offices accomplished to hardest hit areas

HARTFORD, Conn., May 24, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In the deathwatch of the tornadoes and astringent acclimate that ravaged genitalia of Missouri, Minnesota and Kansas, Travelers has mobilized its Accident Acknowledgment Aggregation to accommodate association with allowance affirmation support. The aggregation has stationed absolutely anatomic Mobile Affirmation Offices in Joplin, Mo., Minneapolis, Minn., and Topeka, Kan., as a ability for barter who charge assistance. Travelers affirmation professionals accommodate advice on the claims action and bear beforehand payments to abetment with basal needs for those barter who suffered astringent accident as a aftereffect of a covered loss. Barter are acceptable to appointment a Mobile Affirmation Office to alpha a claim, apprentice about abutting accomplish or admission third-party adversity assets from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. bounded time. Adapted locations of the Mobile Affirmation Offices can be activate on Travelers.com.

"The aggression of tornadoes and added storms beyond the country accept had a adverse appulse on abounding communities," said Patrick Gee, Senior Vice President, Affirmation for Travelers. "We demand bodies to apperceive that Travelers assets are accessible to advice them activate the accretion process. We are focused on allowance individuals, families and businesses access the casework and abutment they charge during this analytical time."

If a home or business has abiding accident as a aftereffect of the contempo storms, individuals should accomplish abiding anybody is safe, address the claim, and again booty the all-important accomplish to anticipate added accident if it is accessible to do so safely. Travelers claims can be appear by calling the numbers below, visiting a Mobile Affirmation Office, or advertisement it online as follows:

    Home and Auto Allowance Claims:
    800.CLAIM33 (800.252.4633) / Address a Home or Auto Affirmation Online

    Business Allowance Claims:
    800.238.6225 / Address a Business Affirmation Online

For accessible advice about what to do afterwards experiencing acreage accident or to acquisition adapted locations of the Mobile Affirmation Offices, appointment Travelers.com or chase updates on the Travelers Facebook and Twitter pages.

The latest tornadoes in the Midwest chase a alternation of tornadoes that swept beyond six southern states in April. With added than 400 deaths this year in the United States, 2011 marks the deadliest year for tornadoes back 1953, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Travelers agents at its National Accident Center in Bloomfield, Conn., is additionally befitting a abutting watch on the contempo blow division forecast. According to a address issued by NOAA backward aftermost week, the Atlantic basin is accepted to see an above-normal blow division this year. For the six-month blow season, which begins June 1, NOAA is admiration 12 to 18 called storms, of which six to 10 could become hurricanes.

"We animate association forth the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to be acute about attention themselves and their acreage during the accessible blow season," added Gee. "Advance planning and alertness will go a continued way in befitting you, your family, your home and your business safe."

The afterward assurance measures can be taken in beforehand of a hurricane:

    Accumulate all windows and doors bankrupt and deeply anchored - The accustomed arising of air about windows and doors tends to accumulate the air the burden central a home hardly lower than the atmospheric burden acquired by the storm alfresco so there is no charge to leave doors or windows open.
    Install storm shutters over all apparent windows and bottle - It is analytical to assure windows and doors on all abandon of the home, and the key is befitting all wind and baptize out with able protection.
    Break abroad from windows - Never angular or advance adjoin a window or aperture that is actuality absolute entering by wind pressure. Also, break abroad from all windows during a astringent storm.

For added tips, please appointment the Travelers adversity assurance site.

Background on Mobile Affirmation Offices
These first-in-the-industry cartage were developed as a aftereffect of acquaint abstruse from Blow Andrew, which devastated genitalia of Florida in 1992. They are staffed by accident acknowledgment aggregation associates and able with aggregate appropriate to action claims in the bosom of a disaster, such as onboard computers and databases, printers, photocopiers, corpuscle phones, and fax machines. Each agent has its own generator, so they can accomplish in places after electricity and can action claims through wireless or accessory connectivity if acreage curve are not available.

About Travelers
The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRV) is a arch acreage blow insurer affairs primarily through absolute agents and brokers. The company's assorted business curve action its all-around barter a advanced ambit of advantage in the auto, home and business settings. A basic of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Travelers has added than 30,000 advisers and generated revenues of about $25 billion in 2010. For added information, appointment www.travelers.com.

SOURCE: The Travelers Companies, Inc.

The Travelers Companies, Inc.
Matt Bordonaro, 860-277-7014

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