From: Lila Hayes [lila@carehelp.org]
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 9:31 PM
To: info@carehelp.org
Subject: CARe Update
This weeks schedule:
CARe Group meetings will take place in the following areas:
   - Tue, Jun 10 at 6:30pm - SDG&E Class Action Lawsuit Information Meeting
        Holiday Inn North County - 17065 West Bernardo Drive, San Diego CA 92127
   - Wed, Jun 11 at 6:00pm- Private Meeting for City of Poway Residents
   - Thu, Jun 12 at 5:30pm- Moreno Valley - Best Western - 24840 Elder Ave, Moreno Valley CA 92557
   - Sat, Jun 14 at 10:00am- Fallbrook Community Baptist Church - 731 S Stagecoach Ln
   - Sat, Jun 14 at 10:30am- Jump Start your Inventory, Santa Clarita, for more information - 661-753-6160
 
For details (including description of meeting and address and a link to print a map), go to:
http://www.carehelp.org/workshop_schedule/workshop.php
 
Anyone who lives in any area is welcome to come to any meeting (unless noted as private). For example, if you live in San Diego but your home burnt in Lake Arrowhead, you are welcome to come to a meeting in San Diego.
 
Individual, one-on-one policy review appointments are available. Please call 888-216-8264.
 
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Insurance/Recovery Tip:
You should know that there are more stringent contractor laws after a Federally Declared Disaster:
 
...it is illegal and punishable as a felony to perform contracting work in a declared disaster area without a California contractor's license. Punishment may include a fine of up to $10,000 or up to 16 months in state prison."
 
Do your homework before hiring a contractor. One place to start is the website Contractors From Hell.
 
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News Bites:
    All of California
        Rate increases sought for homeowners insurance - May 27, 2008 
After dropping in recent years, the cost of insuring your home may be about to climb.
 
California's three biggest insurers, covering more than half of insured homes, have requests for rate hikes pending with Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.
    El Dorado County
        Seedlings to be given away today - Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The Tahoe Resource Conservation District and the University of California Cooperative Extension will hold a native Jeffrey pine seedling giveaway from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the Lake Tahoe Demonstration Garden at Lake Tahoe Community College, One College Drive, South Lake Tahoe.
    LA County:
        Wildfires heat up debate on inadequate insurance coverage - June 6, 2008
Stan Newman figures it will cost him close to $400,000 to rebuild his three-bedroom home, which burned to the ground in the fall when a wildfire swept through his neighborhood in the San Diego County community of Rancho Bernardo.
    Orange County
        Talking about mudslides and debris flows - Friday, May 30, 2008
During last [month]'s mudslides and debris flows emergencies in the canyons, people still had time to comment on the news as it happened. Here are some of their comments.
    Riverside County:
        Freak Oct. '07 windstorm left damage, dust, red tape ... -  Monday, April 21, 2008
Six months to the day after a devastating overnight windstorm turned the northern San Jacinto Valley and San Gorgonio Pass upside down, some homeowners and businesses are still climbing out from under the mess while others have moved on.
    San Bernardino County
        Insurance claim leads to prosecution 
A Cedar Glen man has surrendered himself to San Bernardino County Superior Court in connection with a claim that his house was damaged in an October 2007 wildfire. A Friday news release from the state insurance commissioner's office said Olav A. Flores, 35, turned himself in on May 16 after learning an arrest warrant had been issued charging him with one count of insurance fraud.
    San Diego County
        Wildfires heat up debate on inadequate insurance coverage - June 6, 2008
Stan Newman figures it will cost him close to $400,000 to rebuild his three-bedroom home, which burned to the ground in the fall when a wildfire swept through his neighborhood in the San Diego County community of Rancho Bernardo.
    Santa Cruz County
        Summit Fire losses gauged as residents move forward - 06/06/2008
Ten days after the Summit Fire was controlled, small changes are starting to appear on Ormsby Cutoff Road, one of the areas hardest hit by the devastating wildfire.
[more at: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_9499187 ]
 
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