Senate Bill 76, signed into law in 2021, gave regulators and insurers a little more ammunition and may soon provide more, depending on the outcome of a pending court case. The law prohibits advertising by contractors that “induces a consumer to contact a contractor or public adjuster for the purpose of making an insurance claim for roof damage.”
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NOW, do the EXACT same thing with injury attorneys. They do the same thing to entice, or more accurately SUCKER, people into the same scheme: bilk insurers by shaking them down and extorting large settlements by way of lawsuit threats and forcing defense costs just to win highly questionable “injury” claims. That’s a bigger scam than the roofing and windshield epidemic sweeping Florida. Check your auto insurance premium, and see what the largest chunk is – Bodily Injury Liability.
Injury lawyers should be treated just like the tobacco companies. They’re both cancer-causing leeches that prey on the stupid, uninformed masses. The legislature got smart and banned tobacco advertising; and once upon a time attorneys were properly treated the same (until 1977). It’s past time lawyers are also banned from peddling their lies and misinformation to the general public.
Part of the problem is that most of the people selling these hail damage roofs have NEVER actually seen a hail damaged roof before, thus don’t know what they actually look like. And they receive very poor training. They often point out clear and obvious blisters, and many have simply told me that this was how they were trained. And of course, the homeowner thinks that this salesperson is some sort of an Expert, when they have little training. They sometimes look puzzled when i start looking for ground collateral, which also tells me that they have not been doing this very long, as I always thought that ALL adjusters know to look for these things. Oh, one more thing is the “Brittleness Test” as there really is no such test and no standards. Anyone with actual HAAG Certification would scoff at such a thing.
Concerning Brittleness Tests — Most carriers require adjusters to perform them. And that should definitely be the prerogative of the carrier if they want to use that to determine repairability. I personally don’t prefer them as it is true that the “standards” are very loose, but it’s either that or the 15 year benchmark, right?
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Senate Bill 76, signed into law in 2021, gave regulators and insurers a little more ammunition and may soon provide more, depending on the outcome of a pending court case. The law prohibits advertising by contractors that “induces a consumer to contact a contractor or public adjuster for the purpose of making an insurance claim for roof damage.”
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NOW, do the EXACT same thing with injury attorneys. They do the same thing to entice, or more accurately SUCKER, people into the same scheme: bilk insurers by shaking them down and extorting large settlements by way of lawsuit threats and forcing defense costs just to win highly questionable “injury” claims. That’s a bigger scam than the roofing and windshield epidemic sweeping Florida. Check your auto insurance premium, and see what the largest chunk is – Bodily Injury Liability.
Injury lawyers should be treated just like the tobacco companies. They’re both cancer-causing leeches that prey on the stupid, uninformed masses. The legislature got smart and banned tobacco advertising; and once upon a time attorneys were properly treated the same (until 1977). It’s past time lawyers are also banned from peddling their lies and misinformation to the general public.
Part of the problem is that most of the people selling these hail damage roofs have NEVER actually seen a hail damaged roof before, thus don’t know what they actually look like. And they receive very poor training. They often point out clear and obvious blisters, and many have simply told me that this was how they were trained. And of course, the homeowner thinks that this salesperson is some sort of an Expert, when they have little training. They sometimes look puzzled when i start looking for ground collateral, which also tells me that they have not been doing this very long, as I always thought that ALL adjusters know to look for these things. Oh, one more thing is the “Brittleness Test” as there really is no such test and no standards. Anyone with actual HAAG Certification would scoff at such a thing.
Concerning Brittleness Tests — Most carriers require adjusters to perform them. And that should definitely be the prerogative of the carrier if they want to use that to determine repairability. I personally don’t prefer them as it is true that the “standards” are very loose, but it’s either that or the 15 year benchmark, right?