TEXAS STORM DAMAGE CLAIMS 101
Texas storm damage attorney Michael Moore debunks major myths regarding storm damage insurance claims in Texas. For more information, visit https://moore-firm.com and https://moore-firm.com/consumer-prote… for more information.
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good afternoon everybody hello this is
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michael moore
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we are coming back to you again it’s
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tuesday afternoon and
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um and um reason we’re doing this today
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is that we’ve had two
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major storms in the um in the haddad
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county area in the last
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24 hours and um and we
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got a lot of phone calls and a lot of
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questions and so we thought we’d
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reach out to everybody again um i think
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we’re showing the rate at the radar from
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last night
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uh that storm kind of um uh creeped on
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in
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from um rio grande city over to la jolla
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and over the mission area it sat there
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for hours
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and hours and it kind of hit a little
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bit of a mcallen and then of course
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today
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uh that big storm so
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anyways we’re our title of our theme
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here in this program is called
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mythbusters
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um and we have a couple uh we have five
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questions
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or areas of topics deal with myths
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involving insurance claims we thought
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it’d be appropriate today because of all
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the rain we’ve had i mean who knew
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i mean wow a lot a ton of rain and so um
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if you go outside because we had wind
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and those sorts of things and so
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um if you go around the house you see
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any uh leaks
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let’s see water spots on the interior or
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if you find any um
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let’s say shingles on the ground or
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blown over fences or those sorts of
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things
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um you probably have to well you do have
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damage if you have
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if you have a water spot on your ceiling
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that means you’ve got a leak that’s been
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there for a while so the first
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um of course you think your house looks
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fine so the first myth
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question is um my house looks fine after
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a strong storm
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so that means i shouldn’t file a claim
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well it depends
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it depends basically if you find any
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shingles on the ground
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if you uh or if you find any spots on
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your ceiling
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file a claim the insurance company
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requires you to file a claim in a timely
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fashion
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and so what that means is people of
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course
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we are all procrastinators um
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and you can’t procrastinate on this
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because if you if you wait too long the
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insurance company is gonna say oh you
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waited too long
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uh you prejudice our rights to do the
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investigation
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um and because we want to look at the
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roof in the kitchen condition it was
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soon after the storm
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so that’s not a problem go ahead and
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follow your claim
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and get and get the process going um
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second myth buster is if i if i cash my
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insurance check
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i can’t fight for my claim anymore
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that is not true because the insurance
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company must come out there and they
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must
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conduct a regional investigation they
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must
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and they must pay you for all your
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damages and they have to do that without
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making you sign a release
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okay and so uh if so you can cash that
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check and use that money to make
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whatever temporary repairs uh or minor
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repairs you can
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if it’s not enough and then um and then
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give us a call because we’ll send
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somebody out there to give you a second
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opinion a free second opinion actually
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uh we’ve talked about this in the past i
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mean if our clients of our clients
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um houses uh don’t show damages
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then we don’t we don’t charge them a fee
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for that i mean the consultation is free
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it’s only until we uh we win your case
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uh that you
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get reimbursed for those costs so it’s
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real important
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next one um if i keep finding
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storm damage claims my insurance company
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won’t renew my policy
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good question we get caught we get asked
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this question all the time
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so in your policy it says that you can’t
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the insurance company
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is not supposed to cancel you if you
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file
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two claims within a three-year period of
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time um
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but the insurance companies do it
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anyways okay that’s that’s bad faith
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they’re not allowed to do that
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but the law says they’re not supposed to
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do that if you have
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to win if you had two natural event
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storms like a tornado or
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lightning or or or something effect
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that’s a natural event and the insurance
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company is prohibited
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from um from cancelling your policy
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if you make those claims within a within
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a three year period of time
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if they do cancel you you’re going to
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want to talk to me because there’s a
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reason why they’re canceling you
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and it’s probably because they found
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some stored damage on your roof they
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didn’t tell you
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and now they want to get rid of you as a
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as an insured
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next one hiring a lawyer means i get
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less money to fix my damages
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that’s just absolutely false uh here at
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the moore law firm odd job
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is to go after the insurance companies
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and go get the damages you are owed
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and go get the attorneys fees you are
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owed and
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um and uh and get what they call prop
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payment penalties statutory penalties
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these damages uh allow us to go collect
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so that at the end of the day you get um
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you get enough money to get your house
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fixed it’s
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our job and we don’t stop until we get
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to a point where we feel confident
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that um that you know you’re going to be
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made whole
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last question here is insurance
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companies would oh here’s
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this is the myth buster insurance
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companies would never
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do anything illegal to reject my claim
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well
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that’s what they do i mean that’s the
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whole the they violate the law all day
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all day long
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uh they fail you to go out what are the
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issues we see that that are violating
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the law
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the the big one is they don’t go out to
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the uh to the property
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and conduct a real investigation they go
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out there to do a what they call
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a um an oriented result
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investigation in other words they go out
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there knowing they’re not gonna pay the
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claim
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i can’t tell you how many cases that
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we’ve seen
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where the insurance company goes out
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there and they adjust the claim
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it’s right under the deductible in other
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words if you have a 2000 deductible say
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oh you have nineteen thousand and fifty
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dollars or nineteen hundred and fifty
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dollars in damages
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you get zero i mean it’s very typical
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very common or they’ll do it right above
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the deductible
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and it’s because then later on when we
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send our expert out there’s and they
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find 20
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000 damage or 50 whatever it may be um
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and then
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getting the case settled and um so
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that’s that’s an illegal act
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um not conducting a reasonable
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investigation
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um uh with competent adjusters a lot of
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times these
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insurance companies and adjusters out
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there that they don’t have they don’t
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know anything about building a roof
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okay um and they’ll say oh your roof’s
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fine
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well really i mean
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you’ve got to be competent a competent
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person to do these investigations you
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have to have
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get experience in in construction work
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you got to have some experience in
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roofing
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a lot of these adjusters have zero
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experience or
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they’ve been told by their company go
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out there and take a few photographs
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and then write up an estimate right
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underneath the deductible
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it’s a result oriented investigation
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that’s against the law
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anyways my name is michael moore the
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moore law firm
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in the next week or two we’re going to
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be giving out the survival buckets
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uh and we’ll be i’m posting another um
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video on that about what’s in the bucket
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and what
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what what’s in there in terms let’s say
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there’s a flashlight
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and radio and water you know those sorts
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of things
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because um because the peak uh
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the peak month four hurricanes is right
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around the corner
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um i was looking at some statistics uh
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last night
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and beginning at the end of august and
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that’s where it peaks in september
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uh that’s where uh when the um the the
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the season is at its highest
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likelihood for storms and we’ve had a
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lot of rain this year
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and who knows what’s going to happen
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with the storm so if you don’t have some
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insurance coverage you’ve got to get it
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now because if there’s a storm out
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in the um in the in the gulf of mexico
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your uh the the insurance companies
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don’t write windstorm or hurricane
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coverage
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so you got to get that done anyways
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again my name is michael moore the moore
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law firm we’re kind of going through the
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five most common myths
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and we bet back in touch with you guys
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soon to talk about the
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survival bucket and other sorts of
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things
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associated with these claims and if you
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have any questions about your case or or
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your claim um and what to do and how to
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do give us a call
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like i said if you already have a claim
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that’s already been closed
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and you want a free second opinion
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that’s what we do we give free second
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opinions
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and if there’s a case uh there’s no
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charge to you until we win your case
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if you don’t have a case there’s no
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charge to it all so it’s a win-win
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situation
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again this is michael moore at the moore
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law firm um i hope you
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have a nice afternoon our number here is
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erica 956 4 million
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that’s four zero zero zero zero zero
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zero
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have a great tuesday afternoon and talk
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to you soon
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take care
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