It is sad that you have such reading selectivity. The following was in the article also:
Neva said he filed a report with Rimkus that blamed Katrina\’s wind for most of the damage to the Weisses\’ home, but Rogers later persuaded him to change his conclusions.
Also, I have been involved in many claims where engineers were involved and I did\’t agree with the findings, but have never dissuaded them from their opinion. Whether I liked it or not, it was a conclusion I had to live with in handling that specific case.
Finally, I have never had an engineer write a report that had not seen the property. I have asked other adjusters and cannot find one that has had this happen to them either. Strange that this is so commonplace. Now what is common is for the engineering firm to have a supervisor review all work before it goes out, just as I have reviewed adjuster\’s work who work under me. The inspecting engineeer writes the report and the supervisor signs below the inspecting engineer as a supervisor who reviewed the work.
Wow Joe, you\’re one to talk about reading selectivity.
You left out the following information:
\”Neva said he filed a report with Rimkus that blamed Katrina\’s wind for most of the damage to the Weisses\’ home, but Rogers later persuaded him to change his conclusions.\”
It doesn\’t say forced or coerced or had a gun held to his head, but rather he was persuaded.
\”I didn\’t feel pressure that I had to agree with any of the engineers if they came up with a different conclusion than I had,\’\’ Neva testified. Rogers had more experience on disaster claims, Neva said, noting that he didn\’t find any hard evidence of a tornado strike in the area.\”
Hmm, so Rogers was more QUALIFIED. Interesting.
\”Neva, who wasn\’t a licensed engineer in Louisiana, said he inspected about 125 storm damaged properties on the Gulf Coast. The Weisses\’ weren\’t given a copy of the report he submitted to Rimkus before Rogers rewrote it.\”
He wasn\’t even LICENSED as an engineer in Louisiana. Hmm…
Way to pick and choose the info you present Joe. I\’d expect nothing less from you.
How much of the money they got from
FEMA are the great people of Mississippi and Louisiana paying you Joe?
*Note: I don\’t necessarily think this is true; I am just following Joe\’s logic here.
\”Scruggs deal with Nationwide would settle all the lawsuits that it filed against the company in Katrina\’s aftermath. The legal team still represents several hundred clients with pending suits against other insurers including Allstate Insurance Co., MetLife Inc., United Services Automobile Association and the Mississippi Farm Bureau Insurance Co., according to Zach Scruggs.
Last year, Nationwide was the defendant in the first federal trial for a Katrina insurance case.
In that case, U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. sided with Nationwide and ruled that the company didn\’t owe policyholders Paul and Julie Leonard for damage to their Pascagoula home caused by Katrina\’s storm surge. Scruggs represented the Leonards.\”
I guess insurers other than just State Farm and Nationwide and Allstate didn\’t pay up. And, I guess the insurance companies don\’t always lose. According to Joe, if State Farm loses a couple of cases (out of 2) they are losers in the grand scheme of things. It doesn\’t matter if they win 1 case or 1,000, he won\’t stop his tirade.
When you got fired from SF Joe did they try to deny your unemployment? They probably said you were fired for violating company policy, huh?
become so much better since I placed Jewel on IGNORE. Anyone who cannot grasp the simplest of concepts is not worth my time. Simple concepts travel at the speed of light just over the top of her head. I used to say she was a clerical person in State Farm. It is now obvious that she is not even in the insurance business. I welcome intelligent discussion with anyone except Jewel, as she is incapable of intelligent discusion. Have a nice day!!!
Yeah, I am sure you have been ignoring me Joe. You\’re reading my posts and they are making you angry.
You then feel you have to respond in a \”covert\” way. Funny that you *still* do not answer my questions- because you don\’t have the answer and you\’re upset when I prove you wrong. And, you call *me* ignorant. My day isn\’t complete unless I read one of your inane posts. :) (Although *all* of your posts tend to be inane.)
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It is sad that you have such reading selectivity. The following was in the article also:
Neva said he filed a report with Rimkus that blamed Katrina\’s wind for most of the damage to the Weisses\’ home, but Rogers later persuaded him to change his conclusions.
Also, I have been involved in many claims where engineers were involved and I did\’t agree with the findings, but have never dissuaded them from their opinion. Whether I liked it or not, it was a conclusion I had to live with in handling that specific case.
Finally, I have never had an engineer write a report that had not seen the property. I have asked other adjusters and cannot find one that has had this happen to them either. Strange that this is so commonplace. Now what is common is for the engineering firm to have a supervisor review all work before it goes out, just as I have reviewed adjuster\’s work who work under me. The inspecting engineeer writes the report and the supervisor signs below the inspecting engineer as a supervisor who reviewed the work.
Wow Joe, you\’re one to talk about reading selectivity.
You left out the following information:
\”Neva said he filed a report with Rimkus that blamed Katrina\’s wind for most of the damage to the Weisses\’ home, but Rogers later persuaded him to change his conclusions.\”
It doesn\’t say forced or coerced or had a gun held to his head, but rather he was persuaded.
\”I didn\’t feel pressure that I had to agree with any of the engineers if they came up with a different conclusion than I had,\’\’ Neva testified. Rogers had more experience on disaster claims, Neva said, noting that he didn\’t find any hard evidence of a tornado strike in the area.\”
Hmm, so Rogers was more QUALIFIED. Interesting.
\”Neva, who wasn\’t a licensed engineer in Louisiana, said he inspected about 125 storm damaged properties on the Gulf Coast. The Weisses\’ weren\’t given a copy of the report he submitted to Rimkus before Rogers rewrote it.\”
He wasn\’t even LICENSED as an engineer in Louisiana. Hmm…
Way to pick and choose the info you present Joe. I\’d expect nothing less from you.
How much of the money they got from
FEMA are the great people of Mississippi and Louisiana paying you Joe?
*Note: I don\’t necessarily think this is true; I am just following Joe\’s logic here.
From the Associated Press:
\”Scruggs deal with Nationwide would settle all the lawsuits that it filed against the company in Katrina\’s aftermath. The legal team still represents several hundred clients with pending suits against other insurers including Allstate Insurance Co., MetLife Inc., United Services Automobile Association and the Mississippi Farm Bureau Insurance Co., according to Zach Scruggs.
Last year, Nationwide was the defendant in the first federal trial for a Katrina insurance case.
In that case, U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. sided with Nationwide and ruled that the company didn\’t owe policyholders Paul and Julie Leonard for damage to their Pascagoula home caused by Katrina\’s storm surge. Scruggs represented the Leonards.\”
I guess insurers other than just State Farm and Nationwide and Allstate didn\’t pay up. And, I guess the insurance companies don\’t always lose. According to Joe, if State Farm loses a couple of cases (out of 2) they are losers in the grand scheme of things. It doesn\’t matter if they win 1 case or 1,000, he won\’t stop his tirade.
When you got fired from SF Joe did they try to deny your unemployment? They probably said you were fired for violating company policy, huh?
become so much better since I placed Jewel on IGNORE. Anyone who cannot grasp the simplest of concepts is not worth my time. Simple concepts travel at the speed of light just over the top of her head. I used to say she was a clerical person in State Farm. It is now obvious that she is not even in the insurance business. I welcome intelligent discussion with anyone except Jewel, as she is incapable of intelligent discusion. Have a nice day!!!
Yeah, I am sure you have been ignoring me Joe. You\’re reading my posts and they are making you angry.
You then feel you have to respond in a \”covert\” way. Funny that you *still* do not answer my questions- because you don\’t have the answer and you\’re upset when I prove you wrong. And, you call *me* ignorant. My day isn\’t complete unless I read one of your inane posts. :) (Although *all* of your posts tend to be inane.)