State Farm: We're Paying Wind Damage Claims
Southeast News • April 7, 2006
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. is paying for Hurricane Katrina property losses when evidence shows that wind caused the damage, James Burwell, claims manager, wrote in a letter to the ...
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Subject: Pat -You Forgot To Mention Some Important Pay scale Details
Posted On: April 9, 2006, 2:55 pm CDT
Posted By: Roger Poe
Comment:
Pat,
A ex-contractor, turned Pilot Claim Adjuster, stated that the dollar amount of a homeowner claim did not matter to him, since he was paid a DAILY rate.
Too, the incentive to under-assess or ignore damage may be fueled by the need to keep the weekly 1,500.00-$2,000.00 paycheck coming in...
Contractors turned adjusters, who know industry definitions for shingle damage as a contractor, should not change or ignore those definitions when they start to inspect property damages for insurance companies, or their claim serving vendors.
(Isn't that a Federal offence?)
And Allstate & State Farm ARE blatantly denying common wind damage to shingle roofing systems in the Beaumont Texas, and surrounding, area.
I meet with adjusters quite often, on site (since 1992), and can testify to those current FACTS.
rogerpoegc@yahoo.com
P.S. Because of an insurance related project, I stopped in and spoke with a supplier about some needed materials. A conversation came up about her insurer - Allstate.
She said, and I quote; "The adjuster got out of his truck, and the very first thing he said, before hello, or anything, was, 'You aren't getting a new roof' "
What kind of objective good faith act
was that?
Certain insurers make contingent profits by keeping money owed claimants, via adjusters who have sold-out their integrity, (to protect their neighbors from predators), for profit...
Subject: Pat -You Forgot To Mention Some Important Pay scale Details
A ex-contractor, turned Pilot Claim Adjuster, stated that the dollar amount of a homeowner claim did not matter to him, since he was paid a DAILY rate.
Too, the incentive to under-assess or ignore damage may be fueled by the need to keep the weekly 1,500.00-$2,000.00 paycheck coming in...
Contractors turned adjusters, who know industry definitions for shingle damage as a contractor, should not change or ignore those definitions when they start to inspect property damages for insurance companies, or their claim serving vendors.
(Isn't that a Federal offence?)
And Allstate & State Farm ARE blatantly denying common wind damage to shingle roofing systems in the Beaumont Texas, and surrounding, area.
I meet with adjusters quite often, on site (since 1992), and can testify to those current FACTS.
rogerpoegc@yahoo.com
P.S. Because of an insurance related project, I stopped in and spoke with a supplier about some needed materials. A conversation came up about her insurer - Allstate.
She said, and I quote; "The adjuster got out of his truck, and the very first thing he said, before hello, or anything, was, 'You aren't getting a new roof' "
What kind of objective good faith act
was that?
Certain insurers make contingent profits by keeping money owed claimants, via adjusters who have sold-out their integrity, (to protect their neighbors from predators), for profit...