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