The Insurance Compensation Consortium (CCS) has already paid just over 21 million euros in compensation to those affected by the eruption of the volcano in Cumbre Vieja, on the island of La Palma, which has entered its seventh week.
According to the latest data provided by the agency, the aforementioned amount corresponds to 113 homes, 24 cars, 9 shops and offices and 1 industry, all of them located in the municipalities of Los Llanos de Aridane, El Paso and Tazacorte.
The CCS, which depends on the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, has received 1,425 requests for compensation to date, 1,149 of which were homes; 155 were automobiles; 109 shops, hotels and office premises, and 12 industries.
By locality, Los Llanos de Aridane stands out, from where 934 compensation requests come; El Paso, with 271 applications; and Tazacorte, with 69 requests so far.
In addition, 53 requests come from Santa Cruz de La Palma; 36 from Breña Alta; 22 from Villa de Mazo and another 17 from Breña Baja.
All these requests for compensation have been delivered, as received, to the team of insurance experts who are carrying out the tasks of assessing the compensable damages.
The agency recalls that it only compensates for damage caused to property and people who had taken out insurance before the eruption.
The CCS will continue, as it has been up to now, paying the compensation to the insured by bank transfer as the corresponding expert reports on the valuation of the damage are completed and the coverage contained in the insurance contracts of those affected is studied, he adds.
56% of the 1,425 claims for compensation have been submitted through the CCS website (www.consorseguros.es), while 43% have arrived by phone, by calling the CCS call center (telephone toll free 900 222 665) and only 1% have been received on paper.
Insurance companies have requested compensation on behalf of their affected clients in 46% of the cases; insurance intermediaries (agents or brokers) have done so 33% of the time and the insured himself, in the remaining 21%.
Likewise, it insists that there is no maximum period for submitting compensation requests, so it will process all those it receives and pay the corresponding compensation “whatever the amount to which all compensable damages as a result of the eruption may amount. volcanic “.
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