Chartis Private Client Group Expands, Enhances Wildfire Protection Unit

September 21, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Chartis has enhanced its Private Client Group’s Wildfire Protection Unit with geographic expansion and improved monitoring technologies. The unit now is available to clients in additional areas of Colorado.

The Wildfire Protection Unit is a complimentary loss mitigation service designed to help at-risk clients preempt avoidable fire damage to their properties. Response areas, defined at a zip code level, already include locations across Northern California, Southern California, Texas and other parts of Colorado.

Well before an active wildfire develops, Private Client Group clients in these locales can enroll to receive at-home consultations with Chartis’ team of wildfire mitigation specialists. With an emphasis on preparedness and education, the specialists look to identify wildfire hazards around the home and surrounding property, and offer wildfire mitigation recommendations. If warranted, the specialists also will apply a specially formulated fire retardant around the perimeter of the property. The retardant creates an added layer of protection that can last throughout the wildfire season.

In addition to one-on-one consultations, the Wildfire Protection Unit utilizes a disaster intelligence center powered by RedZone Software to track U.S. wildfire behavior, conditions, direction and changing fire perimeters. Mapping technology identifies insured homes in real time as wildfires approach and provides Chartis’ trucks with fire monitoring capabilities. In the event of an active wildfire within the service response areas, Chartis dispatches its Wildfire Protection Unit. Access permitting and in cooperation with local authorities, trucks equipped with fire retardant will attempt to visit vulnerable homes to bolster their defenses.

Although the Wildfire Protection Unit is not a private fire department, all mitigation specialists are firefighters with an average of five years of wildland fire experience. Wildfire Protection Unit crew members are Chartis employees, and all trucks and equipment are owned and managed by Chartis.

With the Wildfire Protection Unit service expansion in Colorado, Private Client Group clients residing in the following areas now can enroll to participate:

Arvada (80007)Boulder (80302, 80303, 80304)Cascade (80809)Castle Rock (80108, 80109)Colorado Springs (80840, 80902, 80903, 80904, 80905, 80906, 80907, 80919, 80921, 80926)Evergreen (80439)Golden (80401, 80403)Larkspur (80118)Littleton (80125, 80127)Longmont (80503)Manitou Springs (80829)Monument  (80132)Morrison (80465)Palmer Lake (80133)Sedalia (80135)Telluride (81435)Woodland Park (80863)Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetCategories: National NewsTopics: expansion, geographical expansion, High-Net Worth, homeowners insurance, Markets/Coverages, wildfiresHave a hot lead? Email us at newsdesk

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Chartis Introduces CyberEdge Tower

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Chartis has introduced CyberEdge Tower, an insurance product that provides catastrophic network security and privacy protection. It provides total aggregate limits of liability of up to $100 million that are structured to allow the insured to cost-effectively retain up to the first $50 million of loss. The solution will be delivered via the Chartis insurers’ Specialty Risk Protector insurance policy.

With growing concern about catastrophic cyber security and privacy exposures, as well as the likelihood of increased regulation and enforcement, companies are proactively addressing cyber risk and insurance disclosures. The SEC’s recent Disclosure Guidance on Cybersecurity makes it clear that cybersecurity risks should be elevated from an IT department issue to a boardroom priority. Accordingly, companies are reconsidering whether they can, or should, retain all of the potential risk of a cyber incident.

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