What is Citizens Home Insurance? Citizens Home Insurance is one of the options you can elect for when it comes to ensuring your home. We have supported a variety of clients in claims against Citizens, so it’s safe to say we’re not a fan. You may be wondering: if we know Citizens is so bad,…
Buying homeowner’s insurance online In most business transactions, you can tell the commitment a company will make to you based upon the effort they put into selling you their product or service. Most companies that now sell products and services online do so for their convenience, rather than yours. That being said, how much harm…
Real estate boom & increased sinkhole claims Across the board, our office and other property insurance lawyers are reporting a spike in claims and disputes associated with sinkhole property damage. These claims, while most common in the Hernando, Pasco, and Pinellas areas, are now seeing a dramatic increase in volume in other counties as well….
What is chemical grouting? The first thing to know about sinkhole repair is that there are two major methods: grouting and underpinning. In many cases, a successful repair uses both of these methods: the grout to stabilize the soil under the property, and the underpinning to solidify the property’s place on the land itself. Sometimes,…
Why you could lose sinkhole insurance coverage Once you go through the time and effort of educating yourself on sinkhole insurance and can be confident that you’ll be covered in the case that a sinkhole opens up beneath your home, there are situations in which your sinkhole insurance coverage is canceled, and for reasons you…
My insurance company tells me that I need to have my home underpinned, but their expert denied that it was sinkhole related and therefore they denied my sinkhole claim. Is that normal?
I”?m getting a lot of runaround with my sinkhole claim. Who bears ultimate responsibility for the repair strategy for sinkhole damage, the insurance company or the engineering firm? The issue of whether a sinkhole property should be fixed with “grout only” versus the use of underpinning, supplemental chemical grouting, or geotechnical based fix remains a…
The Tampa Sinkhole Damage Blog I am very pleased to announce the launch of Sinkhole Damage Blog, a sinkhole law resource for residential and commercial property owners throughout the State of Florida. Located in Tampa, Florida, I am a knowledgeable resource when it comes to Tampa sinkholes. The presence of Tampa sinkhole activity serves as…
