Hurricane Ike Insurance Claims Help
Hurricane Ike Dispute
You may have gotten another letter or phone call from the insurance company saying “we still need more information before we can process your claim.” Or, the adjuster may refuse to return your calls. If this type of behavior from your insurance company sounds familiar, you need to take action now. Unfortunately, many insurance companies do not have your best interest in mind. These insurance practices are just a couple of examples of many common tactics that they use to delay claims.
Hurricane Ike unleashed its wrath over the Gulf Coast on September 13, 2008. The destructive “super storm” created havoc in many people’s lives. In fact, it resulted in property damages of an estimated $27 billion in the United States alone according to the National Climatic Data Center.
Homeowners and businesses turned to their insurance companies to rebuild damaged properties and mitigate business losses. But as often happens, insurance companies continued to come up with different reasons to delay or to dispute claims. As a consequence, many homeowners and business owners were required to bring the insurance industry to court for unsettled claims and insurance bad faith practices.
If you filed a Hurricane Ike claim, you should immediately review your claim information if your insurance sent a series of letters saying things such as, “we need more information before we can process your claim.” Delaying tactics are often a way for insurance companies to keep money that doesn’t belong to them instead of paying claims. More delays mean more returns for the premiums paid by the insurer to the insurance companies. Claims filed beyond the statute of limitations may be used as a reason to deny payment of your claim.
A Statute of Limitations is the time period in which
a suit must be filed or else be forever barred.
In Texas, many insurance companies try to shorten the statute of limitations by a provision in their insurance policy. It will be one of the stipulations in the insurance contract, so you should have a lawyer investigate now to determine when you must bring a claim or file suit.
- Is your Hurricane Ike claim still pending with your insurance company?
- Has there been no settlement yet of your claims?
- Is your insurance company giving you a difficult time?
If the claim has not been settled by the date required by the statute of limitations and
no suit has been filed, then your claim probably will not be paid.
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Doyle Raizner is a Texas law firm with Hurricane Ike Lawyers that can help with your Hurricane Insurance disputes. Over the past several years, Doyle Raizner is the ONLY hurricane insurance law firm in Texas that has taken insurance bad faith cases to trial and has won.
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