State of Alabama Department of Finance Division of Risk Management Kim Huggins Claims Manager.

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State of Alabama Department of Finance Division of Risk Management Kim Huggins Claims Manager

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State of AlabamaDepartment of Finance

State of AlabamaDepartment of Finance

Division of Risk Management

Kim Huggins

Claims Manager

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ALABAMA

April 27, 2011

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The State Insurance Fund

Originated in 1923 to insure state owned properties, K-12 school systems and state university properties

28,000 +/- building/structures surveyed every three years by in house staff

At FY10 close, $46 Billion insured values

Claims are handled by in house staff and/or independent adjusting firms on contract with SIF.

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State of Alabama 2011 Property Program

One Reinsurer provides $250M x/o $750M Excess Capacity

One Reinsurer provides $250M x/o $500M Excess Capacity

Three Reinsurers provide $300M x/o $200M Excess Capacity

Nine Reinsurers provide $100M x/o $100M

Seven Reinsurers provide $50M x/o $50M

Six Reinsurers provide $50M x/o SIR

S.I.R.= $3.5M All Other Perils Occurrence/$10M Named Storm Occurrence/ $10 M Annual Aggregate

$1 B

$750M

$500M

$200M

$100M

$50M

$3.5M

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Statewide Impact ofApril 27, 2011

62 Tornados - 3 EF-5- 8 EF-4- 7 EF-3

240 Deaths

$3 Billion In

Insured Losses

120,000Claims

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Historic Tornado OutbreakApril 27, 2011

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IMPACT OF APRIL 27, 2011

ON SIF$110M Reserved

588 Claims

215 Locations

8 Exceeding $5M

6 K-12 Schools

1 Community College

1 State Park

10 Exceeding $1M

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Hackleburg Elementary/High School

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Phil Campbell High School

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Alberta Elementary School

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SIF Comparison of Catastrophe Losses

Category Ivan Cat 46

Date of Loss 9/16/2004 4/27/2011

Counties Impacted 53 33

Agencies Impacted 102 60

Locations Impacted 500 215

Number of Claims 2453 588

Amount of Loss $30 Million $110 Million

Location Claims $5M + 1 8

Location Claims $1M + 3 10

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Summary Analysis

Ivan was a Category 3 Hurricane

Impacted a large portion of Alabama

Major damage to only a few locations

Cat 46 was a series of EF 3, 4 & 5 Tornadoes

Impacted a large portion of Alabama

Major damage to a large number of locations

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ISSUES

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Coordination

Coordination with Excess Carriers Assignment of the lead adjuster

Third Party Experts Engineers

Estimators

Accountants

Salvagers

Broker’s Role.

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Communication

Communication with SIF Policy Holders

Role of Risk Management

Immediate and Clear Instruction

Availability of Advance Funds.

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Independent Adjusters

Role of Independent Adjusters

Our Representative

Works with Excess Adjusters and Experts

Directs and Manages Claim

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Delays

By Excess Experts to Provide

Building Estimates

Scopes

By SIF Policyholders to

Initiate Emergency Restoration due to

State Bid Law rules.

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On A Positive Note

Our Broker helped us resolve issues quickly and is

currently working with excess on specific guidelines to

follow after a CAT Loss

Our Independent Adjusters remained loyal to the SIF

The SIF made advance funds immediately available to

hardest hit locations.

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