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Florida homeowners upset by ‘insulting’ Hurricane Ian insurance payouts
It’s been more than four months since Hurricane Ian ransacked Florida’s Fort Myers Beach — but many residents are battling with insurance companies, and one family says they’ve been offered just $500 compensation for their house, which was left unlivable. Over a [...]
Insurers slashed Hurricane Ian payouts far below damage estimates, documents and insiders reveal
FORT MYERS, Fla. — When insurance adjuster Jordan Lee entered the cream-colored house battered by Hurricane Ian, the smell from the rain-soaked carpet made it hard to breathe. Piles of pink insulation covered the worn, white couches, he recalled, and [...]
Florida Political Leaders Sell Out Their Constituents To Insurance Industry Desires
By Chip Merlin on December 10, 2022 POSTED IN FLORIDA, INSURANCE, STATE LEGISLATION “We Are Here From The Government, We Are Here To Help You” The Florida Senate and House leadership have sold out to the insurance industry. They have gutted individual policyholder rights. They have [...]
The Plague of Wrong and Insurer Worded Engineering Reports by Insurance Company Retained Engineers
By Chip Merlin on November 25, 2022 Today’s blog is not going to endear me to HAAG, Rimkus, JS Held, and other regularly retained forensic engineers working for insurance companies. These engineering and consulting firms are big business. So much so that Sedgwick, [...]
Where Are Florida’s Leaders Explaining How Floridians Can Fully Get Paid and Not Get Ripped Off By Their Own Insurance Companies?
By Chip Merlin on October 22, 2022 Nowhere to be found. That is the answer. It is quite proper to warn people about unscrupulous scoundrels without licenses who are gauging Florida’s Hurricane Ian victims. Trying to ferret out those individuals and asking the [...]
If Hurricane Ian destroyed your home, take these critical first steps for disaster relief and insurance
The insured losses could be between $25 billion and $40 billion by one early estimate The full financial and human price of Hurricane Ian’s destruction is still unknown, days after it lashed Florida, and now with the Carolinas fresh off [...]