Peter Romero, a licensed independent public adjustor, will be the guest speaker for the meeting. The workshop includes discussions on working with the Internal Revenue Service and the federal government to offset almost all unrecovered insured and uninsured losses with tax deductions, how survivors may spend recovery money without taxable consequences and possible recovery from the federal government on unrecovered losses. Also, there will be information on how to deal with insurance agencies and representatives to attempt to recover all possible insurance-policy monetary proceeds, including what is not shown on individual policies. For example, the costs relating to architectural and engineering services and how to retroactively reform and remove the fixed limits of coverage that are causing individuals to be underinsured. How to best work with the local survivor group on sharing information and further recovery will be included in the discussion as will the role of the licensed independent public adjustor.
All meetings are open to the public but are geared to fire survivors.
Some sessions will be narrowly focused, as is this one, to those returning to the workplace. Other brown bag meetings are being scheduled by the Ombuds Office and will be announced in the Daily Newsbulletin. The next brown bag, to discuss the Cerro Grande Assistance bill, is scheduled for July 17. For more information, contact the Ombuds Program Office at 5-2837. Goldie Microbial Garden of Eden Los Alamos researchers are identifying new bacterial kingdoms for further investigation and possible sequencing of their microbes' genomes as part of the Department of Energy's Microbial Genome Program, a spin-off of the U.S. Human Genome Project.