Hurricane Igor damage results in “high volume” of claims: IBC

Hurricane Igor’s eye brushed past southern Newfoundland on Sept. 21, causing at least 30 communities to declare states of emergency due to flooding, reported The Globe and Mail.
The storm brought damaging 120 km-h winds, making it a Category 1 storm, according to Stormpulse.
Sam Synard, mayor of Maryston, one of the affected communities, told the Globe more than 200 millimetres of rain fell in 20 hours. “Very few, if any, communities in the country could deal with that amount of rainfall,” he was quoted as saying in the Globe. “We’ve lost sections of our main roads, completely washed out to sea.”
Bridges and entire sections of roadways were washed out or damaged to the point of being impassable, isolating many of the communities. Roughly 20,000 people live in the affected area.
“Insurers have already begun responding to customers affected by Hurricane Igor and helping them recover,” said Bill Adams, vice-president, Atlantic, Insurance Bureau of Canada. “With a very high volume of claims coming in, and with some areas of the province still without power, it may take time before everyone is able to make contact.
“Additional claims staff is being brought in to assist. We ask residents to be patient.”