USAA, Allstate Ready Claims Teams in Texas for Hurricane Ida
- USAA has already seen claims start coming in from the storm
- Allstate has claims employees on standby in Texas, Alabama
Workers board up shop windows with plywood ahead of Hurricane Ida in the French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, on Aug. 28.
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Insurers including Allstate Corp. and USAA have readied claims and catastrophe teams in nearby states as Hurricane Ida bears down on Louisiana.
Allstate, the second-biggest home insurer in Louisiana, has workers who handle claims on standby in Alabama and Texas, safe from the full brunt of the storm, so they can help customers after it makes landfall, according to spokesperson April Eaton. United Services Automobile Association has catastrophe-response teams staged in Texas, prepared to move in once allowed by authorities, according to spokesperson Rebekah Nelson.