LATTA, SC (WBTW) – Many home and business owners in the Pee Dee are filing insurance claims to help pay for the damage that Hurricane Florence left behind.
One of those businesses is Latta Feeding Farms. The owner, Jamie Deaver, says it wasn’t floodwaters that damaged his store, it was the wind.
“The biggest thing was just severe winds. The shingle damage to siding damage was severe,” Deaver said.
Deaver filed an insurance claim after the winds ripped some of the shingles off of his roof, which caused interior damage and halted business.
“Loss of production and materials getting wet and damaged and having to swap our materials. A couple thousand dollars a day for probably over a week,” he said
Deaver called his insurance company, Farm Bureau Insurance, when he realized his business may have lost $9,000. On Tuesday, Claims Adjuster Cherie Hale met with Deaver to analyze the damage. She took pictures and measurements for estimates, which she will send to the catastrophe team manager.
“And once he’s reviewed it, he’ll approve it and send it to somebody to actually issue the payment to the insured,” Hale explained to News13.
Hale is one of 30 Farm Bureau Insurance claims adjusters in the Pee Dee and one of 60 across the state. She says there have been 700 claims filed with Farm Bureau Insurance since Hurricane Florence hit.
