̽»¨¾«Ñ¡

INSURANCE INFORMATION INSTITUTE
Contact: Press Offices
New York: 212-346-5500; media@iii.org
Washington, D.C.: 202-833-1580

NEW YORK, September 1, 2008 - Reporters looking for insurance information on Hurricane Gustav, which is predicted to make landfall early this week along the Gulf Coast, should contact the I.I.I. It is likely to be the second hurricane this year and the first major one to hit the U.S. in almost three years.

The I.I.I.'s media contacts are:

Loretta Worters
Vice president, communications at 917-620-0982 or lorettaw@iii.org

Jeanne Salvatore
Senior vice president, public affairs and consumer spokesperson, at 917-612-4088 or jeannes@iii.org

Dr. Robert Hartwig
President and economist at 917-453-1885 or bobh@iii.org

The I.I.I. has a white paper on catastrophes and insurance issues which can be accessed at: /media/hottopics/insurance/catastrophes/ . The I.I.I. also has facts and statistics on previous U.S. hurricanes at /media/facts/statsbyissue/hurricanes .

For more information regarding insurance, go to the I.I.I.'s Web site at .

The I.I.I. is a nonprofit, communications organization supported by the insurance industry.