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…
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…