Florida Fire Insurance Claim Attorneys

A fire in your home or business can be devastating and change your life forever. While lives cannot be replaced, your home, business and personal property can be. Insurance claims for damage caused by fire can present very complex legal issues. Our staff of attorneys stand ready and willing to assist home and commercial property owners with claims resulting from fire damage.

How to Prepare Your Fire Damage Insurance Claim

Take photographs or videotape of the damage.

Make temporary repairs – save receipts for any materials that you purchase. Don’t make extensive permanent repairs until after the claims adjuster has been to your property and assessed the damage.

Florida (FL) Hurricane Lawyer

Each year the threat of windstorms or hurricanes looms off the coast of Florida. In recent years, the state has enjoyed a break from the significant hurricane activity suffered by the state in 2004 and 2005. Each hurricane season, government officials urge the public not to take the threat of hurricanes lightly and to prepare their families for a potential natural disaster. In the unfortunate event that a natural disaster strikes, insurance claims can be difficult and frustrating to handle and this firm strives to provide personalized service in a comfortable environment in an attempt to alleviate some of the stresses involved with the aftermath of such natural disasters.

Florida Water Damage Lawyer

Water damage caused by a burst pipe can devastate your home or commercial property, ruining floors, cabinets, and furniture, making your home, rental property, condominium or business unusable and costing thousand of dollars to make right. This is a property insurance claim not covered by flood insurance, which is a separate policy.

Insurance claims for damage caused by a burst pipe can present very complex legal issues. Our staff of attorneys stand ready and willing to assist home and commercial property owners with claims resulting from water damage.

Florida Sinkhole Lawyers

Sinkholes and sinkhole activity are naturally occurring hazards that affect many areas of the State of Florida. Over the course of the past 12 years, this firm has represented thousands of homeowners, commercial property owners, rental property owners and condominium associations with insurance claims involving sinkholes or sinkhole activity which affect their insured structures.

Over the course of the last 20 years significant changes in Florida Law governing sinkhole claims as well as many varied changes to insurance policies, have affected coverage for those losses.

• Our firm provides services, representation and counsel for...
• Personal injury
• Auto accident
• Wrongful death
• Medical malpractice
• Nursing home negligence
• Slip & fall
• Products liability
• Dog bites

Auto accidents create concern, anxiety and shock for all involved and may inhibit clear thought at the moment.  Accidents happen to the best of drivers; therefore, you should be prepared to take appropriate action.  Many legal problems arising from accidents could be avoided or lessened if the persons involved knew in advance what to do.

AT THE SCENE OF AN ACCIDENT

• Stop – State law requires that when the driver of a vehicle is involved in an accident where a person is injured or property damage is done, that person shall immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident, or as close to the scene as possible without obstructing traffic more than is necessary.
• Assist The Injured – After stopping your care, check for injured persons. If someone is injured or complains of injury, call 911 immediately.

Federal law includes the "Fair Debt Collection Practices Act" which provides consumer protection from abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices by a debt collector.

• Threaten criminal consequences
• Threaten to use violence
• Make repeated calls with the intent to annoy and harass the debtor
• Threaten to contact friends, neighbors, employers
• Use profane language

If you have an extended warranty on your vehicle or other product and your claim was denied, we may be able to help.

Tips to remember when contacting your warranty company:

• Insist on a claim number;
• If the claim is denied, always insist that a written denial letter be sent to you;
• Retain all parts replaced by the repair shop and ask that the repair shop document the specific repair on your receipt.