Company Recounts Katrina Horrors

As the hard-hit South starts to pick up the pieces left by Hurricane Katrina, insurers in New Orleans are detailing the impact the storm has had on employees, policyholders and daily operations.

One of these insurers is Pan-American Life Insurance Co., which so far has contacted 150 of 450 home office employees, said Tom Richert, Pan-American Life's director of marketing. There are no employee fatalities or injuries that the company is aware of, he continued. There have been a "couple of scares" concerning relatives of management, but overall, everything is all right, Mr. Richert said.

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