Do You Need a Disaster Plan Audit? 10 Questions to Help You Decide / JMBM / Feb 2000

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Do You Need a
Disaster Plan Audit?
10 Questions to Help
You Decide

February 2000 - JMBM and Berins & Co. offer the following 10-question quiz to help you decide if your hotel is prepared for the next disaster.

If your property is immune to hurricanes, fires, floods, storms, riots, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, landslides, terrorist attacks and other disasters, read no further. For everyone else, see how you do on the following quiz.

		Yes	No
1	Do you have a Disaster Plan? Does it include an up-to-date Disaster Team?
2	Do you know why it is critical to have your own Disaster Team (and not the insurance company's adjuster) at the disaster site within 24 hours of the event?
3	Do you have a complete contact list including hotel employees and management, the Red Cross, FEMA and others?
4	What plans have you made for alternate guest accommodations, in the event the disaster renders the premises uninhabitable?
5	Have you made plans to control adverse publicity by limiting, to the extent possible, the statements made to the press by representatives of the hotel?
6	Do you have any procedures or plans for victim care? As well as for their families?
7	Do you know what your responsibilities are to your employees in the event a disaster precludes their return to work for a substantial period of time? Is this reflected in your Employee Handbook?
8	Have you reviewed your insurance coverage in the last 12 months to be sure that you have both the right types of insurance and the right amounts of coverage?
9	Do you know where the hotel's important records are stored, including insurance policies? Do you have extra copies of those records off site?
10	Do you know where the records are maintained that the hotel would need in order to substantiate property damage and profit losses? Do you have extra copies of those records off-site?

If you answered no to three or more questions, or no to either question 1 or 2, you are in dire need of a Disaster Plan Audit.

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For more information:
Visit Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP�s
web site: http://www.jmbm.com
Email Jim Butler at [email protected]
Or contact
Jim Butler at the Firm
Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP
2121 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Phone: 310-201-3526

Berins & Co.
David Berins,
(817) 442-0833 or
[email protected]

Also See:	Outlook 2000 - A Roundtable Discussion / Also: '90s Trends That Didn't Make It - JMBM
	A �Free Lunch?� / Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP / Nov 1999
	Thunder over Woodley Road / A first jury verdict focusing on the consequences for a hotel operator failing to meet its �fiduciary� duties to the hotel�s owner / February 2000
	Special Reports / Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP