If anyone knows Tiger Woods, tell him to call me. He apparently is having issues with part of his dining room in his $60 million Jupiter home sinking. From what I have read they are proposing some partial underpins. Hey Tiger, read my prior posts on how partial pinning doesn’t work. It shows that no…
I must apologize for not getting this story out faster but as you will see from a prior post, I was busy in trial. This story is simply amazing and possibly the luckiest one I have ever heard. The 100 foot sinkhole opened up Sunday but thankfully provided warning this time. People first noticed issues…
We are proud to announce a victory at trial over Citizens yesterday. It was an extremely unique and exhausting trial even though it only lasted one day. In short, our client is a Spanish speaker who bought a policy from a Citizens agent. She claimed she was told when she bought the policy she would…
State fines Universal Property & Casualty Insurance TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s second largest property insurer is being hit with a fine of nearly $1.3 million. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced Thursday that his office was assessing a fine against Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company. Universal has roughly 542,000 policyholders statewide and collects more than…
This is a story that broke in February and was posted on TampaBay.com. Long story short, Citizens executives gave them selves huge pay raises last year, some as large as $31,000. Of course they decide to approve these raises as Citizens complains of losing money and stresses the need to cut back the number of…
Hillsborough County has released a short video that was taken with some sort of mobile camera that travelled inside the home of Seffner man Jeff Bush. Mr. Bush was suddenly swallowed and killed by the sinkhole while sleeping. This is really the first time we get a glimpse into what this hole looks like. It…
Yet another sinkhole has opened in Seffner Florida. This one is just down the street from the second one that opened that we discussed previously because we represent that family. We also represent the homeowner of this new situation and it is interesting what we are seeing. Most notably is the fact that this homeowner…
Below is an article published on RiskandInsurance.com that includes commentary from our firm. Credit Steve Yahn, the author. When 37-year-old Jeff Bush was swallowed up by a giant gap in the earth when he was sleeping in his bedroom in his central Florida home in late February, his death spotlighted a natural disaster occurrence in…
A golfer was enjoying a round in St Louis Missouri on March 8, 2013 when the ground suddenly swallowed him. Mark Mihal actually noticed the smaller hole in the ground while on the 14th fairway and walked over to take a better look. Suddenly Mark found himself at the bottom of an 18 foot hole…
Below is an editorial my partner, Ted Corless, posted on another website NewsMunchies.com. Its a good read. An image of the Earth giving way and swallowing Bruce Willis whole is the stuff of summer movie blockbusters. Yet the way in which the powerhouse insurance lobby has made sinkhole coverage nearly obsolete in Florida is more…
