EVENT CANCELLATION

Premier has extensive experience in responding to and mitigating losses.  Examples include:

  • Successful rescheduling of the NFL Season and Super Bowl post September 11, 2010 terrorist attacks
  • Coordinating the successful production and completion of  the MTV Video Music Awards post Hurricane Katrina 2005
  • Assisting the organizers of a major international convention in Europe with responding to a potential event cancellation due to flight cancellations throughout Europe after the volcanic ash eruptions from the Eyjafjallajokull Volcano
  • Assisting Insurers and Insured’s with Event Cancellation Claims after various strikes and transportation delays in Europe during 2010

EC4Organizations will regularly plan sporting events, conventions, conferences, trade shows, and other special events to be hosted in diverse venues throughout the world. During the event planning, financial commitments are undertaken to secure a venue, market the event, arrange travel/hotel rooms, exhibits, speakers and other resisted costs and commitments.

Due to circumstances beyond the control of the event organizer such as adverse weather, strikes or flight cancellations, events occasionally need to be canceled, curtailed, postponed, relocated, or abandoned.

Premier Insurance Services’ staff of experienced adjusters have assisted clients by promptly responding to event cancellation situations, assessing alternatives and where possible, relocating or postponing the event to another time.

 

EYJAFJALLAJOKULL VOLCANO ERUPTION – ICELAND

After being dormant for 200 years, on March 21, 2010 there was a small eruption under Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier, which caused lava to spew out from the glacier. Due to very little ice at the eruption site, there was no threat of flooding.

On Wednesday, April 14th 2010 just after midnight, the same volcano began to erupt for the second time in a month. This eruption was ten to twenty times more powerful then the last one because it interacted with ice and water. The eruption shot out chunks of lava, some the size of a jeep, and shot 100 meters high. With the lava, came a thick, dark brown ash cloud that climbed several miles into the air and drifted over most of northern Europe and is now spreading west toward North America. The cloud of ash and debris has impacted travel worldwide.

STRIKES OVER PENSIONS IN FRANCE

PARIS — French workers sought to test President Nicolas Sarkozy’s resolve on overhauling the pension system, staging a major strike that snarled transportation and closed schools and public offices for the second time in one month.