Ok, they are asking for money back from the citizens of Florida who got disaster aid from FEMA. This doesn’t have anything to do with the NFIP. It’s people who applied for aid for ALE and stuff like that. Same things happened after Tropical Storm Allison in Texas. I say too bad, shouldn’t have messed up, you just make a $27 million mistake, tough titty.
I know of insureds who decided to ‘evacuate’ on their own a few days before Ivan hit. They came back to homes with minor roof damage. They applied to FEMA for reimbursement for their out-of-town hotel stays and meals. Later FEMA called to verify that their HO3s won’t pay for these items… I wonder how much of their ‘short vacation’ was FEMA funded…
Seems I remember some court cases in Texas that said in some situations an over payment to a claimant was not retrievable by an insurance company. “Tough luck, you nasty insurance company”.
Why so bitter against insurance companies? In this article, it’s FEMA who’s trying to recoup money that insurance companies also paid. What makes an insurance company nasty for paying claims?
By the way, if the TX court cases were state cases, they don’t necessarily apply to FL and they don’t necessarily apply to a federal agency.
Oh, I meant that (“you nasty companies…”) statement as a sorta quote of the court. Is FEMA trying to collect back from the servicing insurance companies or the policy holder? I just assumed they were after the policy holder.
Hal, they are trying to collect from anyone who received duplicate payments or payments that were in error. If you receive this publication, you certainly should have understood what FEMA was trying to do.
People are only to be made whole, not profit from a claim.
I originally assumed they were going after the policy holders, then in reading some of the feedback I thought maybe they were going after the servicing companies that paid in error.
Americans are so stupid they’ll pay for anything or donate any amount that sounds good they are the most generous people in the world. LIVE 8 sound familiar.
Don’t worry everthing is fine. Drink up the koolaid is goooooooood.
FEMA no worries, Especially if the citizens are subsidising it through Taxes every April 15th. Fema has a budget got to spend it all even if it was fraud so they can increase their budget next year. Go ahead and SCREW the insurance companies, average JOE doesn’t know any better, they don’t care about insurance issues, they only think their company will covert them. They don’t realize or are slowly beginning to discover what a mess the STATE is in w/ regards to insurance and then they’ll START CRYING TO the GOVT FOR HELP either with money or UNRATED INSURANCE COMPANIES THAT CITIZENS donates policies to for TAKE OUT BUSINESS.
Go back to sleep every thing will be JUST FINEEEEEEEE NIGHTY, NIGHT Floridians.
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Ok, they are asking for money back from the citizens of Florida who got disaster aid from FEMA. This doesn’t have anything to do with the NFIP. It’s people who applied for aid for ALE and stuff like that. Same things happened after Tropical Storm Allison in Texas. I say too bad, shouldn’t have messed up, you just make a $27 million mistake, tough titty.
I know of insureds who decided to ‘evacuate’ on their own a few days before Ivan hit. They came back to homes with minor roof damage. They applied to FEMA for reimbursement for their out-of-town hotel stays and meals. Later FEMA called to verify that their HO3s won’t pay for these items… I wonder how much of their ‘short vacation’ was FEMA funded…
Seems I remember some court cases in Texas that said in some situations an over payment to a claimant was not retrievable by an insurance company. “Tough luck, you nasty insurance company”.
Why so bitter against insurance companies? In this article, it’s FEMA who’s trying to recoup money that insurance companies also paid. What makes an insurance company nasty for paying claims?
By the way, if the TX court cases were state cases, they don’t necessarily apply to FL and they don’t necessarily apply to a federal agency.
Oh, I meant that (“you nasty companies…”) statement as a sorta quote of the court. Is FEMA trying to collect back from the servicing insurance companies or the policy holder? I just assumed they were after the policy holder.
Hal, they are trying to collect from anyone who received duplicate payments or payments that were in error. If you receive this publication, you certainly should have understood what FEMA was trying to do.
People are only to be made whole, not profit from a claim.
I originally assumed they were going after the policy holders, then in reading some of the feedback I thought maybe they were going after the servicing companies that paid in error.
Sorry to butt in boys….but Federal Flood Insurance is actually a program and was not created to make anyone whole.
FEMA is a typical governmental agency that over-pays and is forced to recover these monies needlessly expended, at the taxpayer’s expense.
In insurance, this is known as an E & O. In the government, it is known as an ooooooops…
RiiiiiiiiiiiiiGGGGGhhhhhhhttttt!.
Americans are so stupid they’ll pay for anything or donate any amount that sounds good they are the most generous people in the world. LIVE 8 sound familiar.
Don’t worry everthing is fine. Drink up the koolaid is goooooooood.
FEMA no worries, Especially if the citizens are subsidising it through Taxes every April 15th. Fema has a budget got to spend it all even if it was fraud so they can increase their budget next year. Go ahead and SCREW the insurance companies, average JOE doesn’t know any better, they don’t care about insurance issues, they only think their company will covert them. They don’t realize or are slowly beginning to discover what a mess the STATE is in w/ regards to insurance and then they’ll START CRYING TO the GOVT FOR HELP either with money or UNRATED INSURANCE COMPANIES THAT CITIZENS donates policies to for TAKE OUT BUSINESS.
Go back to sleep every thing will be JUST FINEEEEEEEE NIGHTY, NIGHT Floridians.