Category: Denied Insurance Claim
The Insurance Hoax
Julie Tunnell remembers standing in her debris-strewn driveway when the tall man in blue jeans approached. Her northern San Diego tudor-style home had been incinerated a week earlier in the largest wildfire in California history. The blaze in October and November 2003 swept across an area 19 times the size of Manhattan, destroying 2,232 homes and killing 15 people. Now came another blow.
A representative of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the largest home insurer in the U.S., came to the charred remnants of Tunnell's home to tell her the company would pay just $220,000 of the estimated $306,000 cost of rebuilding the house.
"It was devastating; I stood there and cried," says Tunnell, 42, who teaches accounting at San Diego City College. "I felt absolutely abandoned."
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USPA ® Expedites Getting Your Insurance Money After Disasters
Following Wilma’s disastrous impact that destroyed her roof, Lorna Pemberton of Fort Lauderdale received the shocking news that she was denied her claim for repair by her homeowners insurance company. Recently widowed and with no one to help her, she was at her wit’s end, until a friend mentioned her plight to Dimitriy Manasov of United States Public Adjusters, LLC. He immediately became Lorna’s hero by stepping in, contesting the decision of the insurer, and successfully getting Lorna an insurance check payable to her for $38,712.64.
This is just one of the many success stories behind the activities of United States Public Adjusters (USPA).
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