Fire loss claims
A fire loss can cause terrible damage to your house, contents or property. A fire loss claims lawyer can help. We buy insurance for our homes and businesses to protect in case of a loss. Insurance is a peace of mind product to allow us to sleep at night knowing that if the unimaginable happens we have coverage. A fire loss can be extremely damaging. As a result, fire can cause smoke migration in a property. There can be more damage from water from firefighting activities. An insurance company can deny a fire loss claim on the basis of arson. This can happen where it claims that your or someone living with you set the fire. They may also deny a claim from a fire based on other exclusions in an insurance policy. Some the reasons can include that they were unaware of nature of the property or the activities that were taking place there. An insurer may also allege that not all of the items claimed lost in a fire were in fact lost. Some disputes can be over how much damage was caused by the fire while other disputes can be about how the cost of repair or replacement.
Most people will not know what is covered under their policy and how much insurance they have until after a loss occurs. Insurance companies are happy to accept your premium payments but you make a claim they can be difficult to deal with. In some cases they may delay payments and in others deny the claim. A fire loss claims lawyer can advocate for you with your insurance company.
Insurance companies have to treat their insureds fairly. This means they have to handle claims efficiently and pay claims quickly. They must have valid reasons to deny a claim. Unfortunately, this does not always happen. Our fire loss claims lawyers see many cases where insurers have wrongly denied a claim or have undervalued a claim. Our experienced insurance lawyers understand insurance policies and the claims process. They will employ the necessary tools to get you compensation. This can include technical experts such as engineers, loss valuators and independent adjusters.
Peace of mind for your fire loss claim
Our lawyers will ensure you get the peace of mind you deserve. Our lawyers have been successful in obtaining awards for punitive damages where insurance companies have wrongly denied an insurance claims. Punitive damage awards are rare and hard to obtain. The lawyers at Singer Katz LLP have obtained 2 such awards for their clients. In Brandiferri v. Wawanesa, Jason Singer was successful in obtaining a decision against an insurer requiring it to pay for damages from a fire loss as well as a punitive damage award as a repeat offender.
Our fire loss claims lawyers have fought in Court to obtain successful decisions for our clients after a fire loss. Read about one such case here.
Unlike a fire loss claim lawyer that will require you to pay an expensive retainer fee and for each hour billed, our lawyers will usually handle these cases on a continency fee basis, meaning you will not have to pay until the case is won or settled. Learn more here.