Dive summary:
- Detailed plan reviews and tough on-site inspections may irk a few people in the short term, but the benefit to the community is lower insurance rates in the long term in Pima County, Ariz., where Tucson is.
- Ratings for building codes and enforcement in Pima County rank among the top jurisdictions nationally, according to the Insurance Service Office, Inc. an industry-supported group.
- (ISO), recently analyzed building codes and enforcement and found that Pima County, Ariz., consistently outscored other jurisdictions statewide and annually, raising its commercial score from 81.12 in 2007 to 87.97 this year and its residential score from 73.99 to 77.05.
From the article:
Insurers may adopt a program to provide rating credits to individual property insurance policies in recognition of community efforts to mitigate property damage due to natural disasters. ...
