NU Online News Service, July 6, 12:00 p.m.EDT
The claims numbers are rolling in as insurers and homeownersbegin the painful process of inspecting what remains of thedevastation left from the Colorado wildfires that at their height forced 32,000 people toevacuate their homes and left one insurance executive describinghis own brush with loss.
“At this point the number is fluid and expected tochange,” says Brad Hilliard, State Farm spokesperson for thestate's largest homeowners insurer. “This has been the first daythat adjusters were allowed into the impacted area, so we werefinally able to accompany policyholders into their homes to get alook at individual claims.”
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