Bid to get Dáil to probe insurers’ treatment of flood victims

Cork county councillors are to write to two ministers and the chairman of a Dáil committee urging them to investigate claims that businesses and householders hit by last summer’s floods are being unfairly treated by some insurance companies.

Fine Gael councillors John O’Sullivan and Deirdre Forde yesterday supplied county manager Martin Riordan with detailed information about people who saw their insurance premiums soar since the catastrophic Jun 28 floods, despite the fact insurance companies have now refused them flood cover.

Mr O’Sullivan said that one businessman’s premium prior to the flood was just under €16,000, but had risen to more than €24,000 “and that’s without any flood cover”.