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This
Week’s Meeting Schedule:
Replacing
Cash and Savings Bonds Most of us found out the hard way that fire safes
just don't help in a firestorm. Worse yet, many of the things we keep in
there usually aren't covered by insurance. Here are a few tips for
replacing these items. If you can find fragments of your currency (paper
or coin) you can turn it in the Federal Government and they can replace
it. Check out their website for details: If you had stock certificates usually the
corporation has their own procedures. For example here is the clause form the
Time Warner website: SECTION 4. Lost,
Destroyed and Mutilated Certificates. To replace lost savings bonds, follow the
procedures outlined on the Federal Reserve's website: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Legal
Insurance Meetings With the one year statute of limitations closing
in for most 2007 fire survivors, CARe has been asked to help organize
meetings so you can get your questions answered regarding this deadline.
Brian Heffernan has agreed to speak at a series of meetings in the next
month. He is not there to solicit your business, but to answer your
questions regarding this deadline. Brian Heffernan is
an attorney, and insurance and business litigation expert with the
prestigious law firm of Engstrom Lipscomb
and Lack. Mr. Heffernan is a top litigator with 21 years of
civil litigation experience. Mr. Heffernan is a Judge Pro Tem in the
Los Angeles Superior Court. He has been with Engstrom, Lipscomb
& Lack since 1985. The law firm does not solicit nor
advertise. Their website, www.elllaw.com, provides a summary of
their vast civil litigation experience. Mr. Heffernan and Engstrom,
Lipscomb and Lack started working with The first meeting is this coming Wednesday, August 27 at 6:30PM which
will be held at the Holiday Inn located at The next meeting in the series will be taking
place in Ramona on Wednesday, September
3 at 6:30 PM which will be held at the Other meetings in ______________________________________________________________________________________________ For those of you who missed it before, if you’d
like to access our SDG&E FAQ, please click the following
link: http://www.carehelp.org/SDGELawsuitRumors.htm If you’d like a printed version of the sheet,
please go to: http://www.carehelp.org/downloads/SDGERumors.pdf
______________________________________________________________________________________________ ‘Healing
Field’ to mark wildfire's
anniversary Jul 23, 2008 [more HERE] ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Study Finds
Economic Costs of Federal Cat Legislation
Burdensome August 22, 2008 Natural catastrophe legislation passed by the U.S.
House of Representatives and pending in the U.S. Senate would create a
multi-billion dollar burden on taxpayers in at least 20 states, according
to a new study released yesterday. [more HERE] ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Online
Backup If you have ever lost computer data, you know how
valuable it can be... and most of it is not covered by insurance. Take out
your OWN insurance, but using an online backup service.
There are a couple of services out there that are
free, but most of them have limitations on how much you can
store. http://briefcase.yahoo.com limits
you to 25MB The two biggest contenders for paid services are
www.mozy.com and www.carbonite.com. They are both offer
an unlimited amount of storage and are relatively cheap (about $50/year)
and last time I checked they offered referral bonuses. Here are a couple
of reviews so you can decide for yourself. http://sanity.blog-city.com/mozy_versus_carbonite_automated_backup_services.htm ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Wildfires
scorch state, federal budgets By DON
THOMPSON - Associated Press | Wednesday, August 13,
2008 [more HERE] ______________________________________________________________________________________________ "All this will not be finished in the first one
hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days...
nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.” - President John F.
Kennedy ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ... Help CARe provide
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