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Best Practices for Hurricane Mitigation - How Professionals Can Prepare
Release Date: June 2025The 2024 hurricane season was one of the more active in recent years, costing an estimated $500 billion. It only takes one storm with high winds, surges, flooding or tornadoes to cause severe damage to your home, property, autos, and valuable collections. Aon Private Risk Management discusses how to protect yourself with enhanced preparedness and mitigation strategies.
Key Takeaways
- Named Storms are a risk to both a professional’s personal safety and their home, property, autos, and valuable collections
- After ensuring that personal safety measures are in place, it is crucial to have a specific and pre-planned course of action to safeguard your art and collectibles
- Aon Private Risk Management’s Best Practices for Hurricane Mitigation discusses establishing actionable plans prior to hurricane season to help significantly mitigate the risk of loss to your collection
Aon Private Risk Management’s Art and Collections Practice has developed Best Practices for Hurricane Mitigation: Collection Protections and Emergency Response Plan.
This timely guide shares important steps that should be taken to safeguard valuable collections during hurricane season, providing suggestions for “pre-storm” planning including:
- The importance of accurate and up-to-date records
- Seasonal storage considerations
- Maintaining a current list of emergency and conservation contacts
Also highlighted are key steps to take “post-storm” and the actions that should be taken when damage has occurred.
Contact
The Professional Services Practice at Aon values your feedback. To discuss any of the topics raised in this article, please contact Blythe Hogan or Sally Nexsen.
Blythe Hogan
Vice President and Director
New York
Sally Nexsen
Account Executive
Atlanta
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