{"id":988,"date":"2015-12-01T00:58:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T00:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2015-12-01T02:14:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T02:14:38","slug":"planning-for-an-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Planning for an Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report by a national small business council revealed that 80% of the small businesses significantly damaged by a major storm or other calamity that didn&#8217;t have a disaster recovery plan failed within a year of the disaster. As for those that did have a disaster recovery plan, only 20% failed. Here are five simple steps to creating a viable disaster recovery plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a detailed key contact list. Include employees&#8217; home and cell numbers, utility suppliers, your insurance company and agent, and key contractors such as debris removal companies, carpenters, electricians, and plumbers. Call ad secure help right away.<\/li>\n<li>Document all of your property and possessions with either pictures or a video. This information will be invaluable in the event of a major storm.<\/li>\n<li>Electronically back up all your computer data regularly. Keep the backup media or tape off premise.<\/li>\n<li>Have a back-up place from which to operate. Many businesses now have mutual agreements to temporarily assist the other in the event one&#8217;s place of business is unusable for some time.<\/li>\n<li>Visit with your account manager to discuss the coverage you have and might need in the event of a disaster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report by a national small business council revealed that 80% of the small businesses significantly damaged by a major storm or other calamity that didn&#8217;t have a disaster recovery plan failed within a year of the disaster. As for those that did have a disaster recovery plan, only 20% failed. Here are five &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/?p=988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Planning for an Emergency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[32,28,31],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk-management","tag-american-insurance-alliance","tag-manufactured-home-insurance","tag-mobile-home-insurance","entry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americaninsurancealliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}