By Peter Schorsch – Mar 26, 2015 Bills are gaining momentum in both the House and Senate to rein in a rapidly growing insurance scam in which sketchy trial lawyers and remediation firms are getting stressed-out homeowners to sign over their policy benefits and rights after a burst water pipe or similar home emergency. Assignment…
Imagine this: You wake up to find your kitchen flooded from a broken pipe. You frantically call a water extractor who arrives and says, “Don’t worry. Just sign these forms and we’ll handle everything.” The truth is, you’ve just signed away control of your insurance claim and may have permitted unscrupulous third parties to inflate…
Rep. John Tobia says all he wants his bill to do is protect consumers like his 67-year-old dad from unscrupulous vendors and lawyers. But CS/HB 669 — alive and well after a 90-minute, standing-room-only hearing in the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee — is revealing what many believe is the follow-up to PIP and sinkholes…
Seven years after they began raking in millions in storm repair insurance proceeds, luck is running out for Carlton Dewayne Dunko and Frank Martin Pureber. No more lavish lifestyles for them – just the prospect of spending time in prison for their sketchy business practices. Missouri issued arrest warrants this week related to a roofing…
Palm Harbor homeowner Joe Zigler had never heard about Florida’s Construction lien law when someone from a roofing company called NBRC Construction knocked on his door in December 2012. Zigler now says that the law, together with NBRC’s questionable business practices, could cost him ownership of his home in a foreclosure action due to unpaid…
View a presentation showing escalating trends in AOB abuse…Citizens Presentation on Assignment of Benefits
ORLANDO,Fla. — An Orlando woman claims the restoration company she hired to put her life back together after a flood wrecked her home instead, and she’s been living without a kitchen for a year and a half. A pipe burst when no one was home, flooding Marie Dolce’s kitchen. Overwhelmed, she hired an emergency restoration…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PIFF SUPPORTS TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY TECHNOLOGY, URGES LEGISLATURE TO CLARIFY INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 17, 2015 – Transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft represent a promising technology that has arrived and can serve consumers well in the future, but Florida legislators should clarify the insurance requirements for…
A new poll shows U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., starts off as the favorite if he decides to run for a second term in the U.S. Senate in 2016, but if he opts to run for president the contest is wide open. Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to prominent Democrats, released a…
The Issue: Assignment of Benefits was intended to allow vendors to get paid promptly by home insurers for performing emergency remediation or repair work without requiring the insurance policyholder to get directly involved in the payment. Download full infographic to learn more