Was Your Hurricane Irma Insurance Claim Underpaid?

We have to be totally honest. Noble Public Adjusting Group is outraged at the number of Hurrican Irma insurance claims that have still not been paid or were underpaid. And we aren’t the only ones who are outraged. Read the following statement from an article at the Palm Beach Post. The title of the article is Many Hurricane Irma insurance Claims Remain Unsettled. “Insurance industry officials acknowledge it is possible they underpaid on tens of thousands of claims they declared closed after the September 2017 hurricane.”

Here is another statement from that Palm Beach Post article, “A month and a half from the next hurricane season, fewer than 57 percent of more than 942,000 Hurricane Irma insurance claims worth $8.6 billion have been closed with insurance payments, state records show.” That article was written in mid-April 2018, thus the reference to ‘a month and a half.’ It is outrageous that here we are now, a week before the beginning of the 2018 Hurricane Season, and all these claims are still not settled or were grossly underpaid. Read this last section of that article, “The truth is many claims are timely paid and many other claims are grossly underpaid or not paid at all,” said Florida Association of Public Insurance Adjusters president Jimmy Farach. He said a number of property owners “hear from their insurer that their claim is closed and they simply give up.”

This is unacceptable. If you are among the homeowners or commercial property owners in Florida whose Hurricane Irma insurance claim was underpaid, we want you to know that Noble Public Adjusting Group can reopen that claim!

To further assist you as a homeowner or commercial property owner whose Hurricane Irma claim has still not been settled, or was underpaid, we’d like to share this podcast with Merlin Law Group’s Chip Merlin. Here is a short description of that podcast, “ Hurricane Irma caused major damage all across southwest Florida last year, and while many people have wrapped up their repairs, and the insurance claims that covered them, some people are still struggling to find closure. Plus, because of the massive damage caused by the storm, insurance companies are facing an increase in lawsuits against them. We’re joined by Chip Merlin, h e’s founder and president of Merlin Law Group, and he focuses on commercial & residential property insurance claim disputes and bad faith insurance litigation. he’s an attorney who focuses on commercial & residential property insurance claim disputes and bad faith insurance litigation, to pick his brain about all things insurance related in this post-Irma world.“

Noble’s home office is in Panama City Beach, but we have offices in Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Destin, and Orlando. We can handle an insurance claim anywhere in Florida. We also have offices in Texas and Georgia. Under the right circumstances, we can handle an insurance claim anywhere in the US.

Call us today to discuss your Hurricane Irma unsettled or underpaid insurance claim, to discuss the upcoming 2018 Hurricane Season, or for any other reason. We love hearing from our blog readers!