Well, it looks like getting the "Good Hands", they just got the finger.

I'm pissed off now, Allstate. Look, I go to you. I stick up for you. You don't help me now. I say "Fark you," Allstate, I do it myself.

An insurance company pissing on a customer? Urine good hands, indeed!

This is a common mistake many homeowners make. The way the insurance business operates, the real genius behind it, is like so: The coverage is complete and total right up until the moment you file a claim. Once you do that, of course, the coverage runs out. So these people, had they not filed a claim, would be completely covered against their loss. But they did and, well, now it's time for them to pay higher premiums. A bitter lesson, I'm sure, but one from which they shall, no doubt, emerge the better because of it. Unlike their house.

It may sound heartless to someone who doesn't hold preferred shares, but the insurance company must follow such a business model to protect itself against the rampant fraud that accompanies these events. For all anyone knows, this couple, under cover of Sandy, a conveniently-timed sprinkle, may have generated a 120-mph wind to blow their roof off so they could pour 2.5 million gallons of "rain" into their home (just in time for the holidays, too! Looking very suspicious, isn't it?) in order to collect a nice fat settlement check. Little do they care that they may be depriving some poor stockholder of that skiing weekend in Gstaad.

And the ashtray in the Maserati is full, so I have to go to Italy to shop for a new one of those. Trouble every day.

True Fact:

The Washington State Bar Association runs training for attorneys specifically on how to deal with Allstate. That is how big a pack of douchebags they are. Even lawyers hate them.

MN8: You mean the policy that excludes flood damage? They choose not to pay for Flood Coverage, then got a flooded house and are now butt hurt?

From the last 4 times I read this story they pretty much have witnesses that said the roof was gona and some of the walls had been destroyed by high winds well before the storm surge destroyed the rest of what was left.

Seems to me it would be like having a house fire and them claiming the damage was "flood related" because the fire hoses got everything wet.

/although if you do have a fire, smoke and water will do WAY more damage than the actual fire ever did.

It's almost like we've had this thread before...