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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Christina Hoag
Oct. 29--Pompano Beach insurance agency Frank H. Furman Inc. didn't wait for Hurricane Wilma to hit. It put in the call last Friday to its business recovery service to get a mobile-home-like unit on the road, equipped with satellite phones and Internet, computer stations and servers.
Tuesday morning, Furman's office had no power or phones but agents were busy calling customers and processing claims from the trailer parked in the company's lot.
"I don't anticipate any lost income at all," said Dirk DeJong, president. "We're fully operational. We've been getting claims out via satellite."
After being socked with a punishing series of hurricanes in the past...
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