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North Carolina is one of the states that got the most damage from Hurricane Florence and victims are being consoled by the presence of canines. Insurance companies and animal therapy organizations such as Allstate and the Alliance of Therapy Dogs have joined teams to make insurance claims comfortable for claimants as they recover from the devastating event.

A therapy dog owner such as Kellie Renzi, brought her dog Darcy to help comfort the victims of Hurricane Florence. She said, “I think we’ll see a lot of folks who are going through one of the worst times in their lives,” she said. “So bringing a sense of normalcy and all that with our dogs will provide comfort to them.”

Allstate spokesman Justin Herndon stated that therapy dogs have been a part of the company’s mobile commands operations since the wildfires that ravaged California. “You kind of learn what customers need and then evolve to that,” he said. “We found after the wildfires, which was a really emotional experience for a lot of families coming back to nothing, that something like therapy dogs might help.

Sure enough, it has.” The insurance company also plans to deploy a therapy dog at each of the 10 mobile operations at the affected North Carolina areas which include New Bern and Wilmington.

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