![]() ![]() I've had estimates of $300-350,000 to rebuild the house. The Kaible's insurance company, Wright Flood, the largest provider of flood insurance in the country, paid him just $79,000 dollars of his $250,000 policy.īob Kaible: We had a mortgage on the house. meaning it existed before Hurricane Sandy. Quote "not structurally damaged." They said the damage was "long term". But this is the report the insurance company sent to Kaible when they denied his claim. It plainly said there was "structural damage" to the house. He says, "This is the report I wrote."īob Kaible got out his phone and took a picture of George's original report. Forensic.īob Kaible: I said, "George, how could you write a report like that?" He goes, "It's not my report." I said, "What do you mean it's not your report?" He says, "Wait here." He goes to the trunk of his car, goes, picks up the report and brings it into the house. Surprisingly, it was the same engineer, George Hernemar, who worked for a company called U.S. The insurance company agreed to send someone back out to the house. Making matters worse, appeals to the federal agency in charge of all of this, FEMA, went nowhere.īob Kaible: Just that this report is wrong. Thousands of claims have still not been resolved and there is evidence that many homeowners were victims of what appears to be wide-scale fraud where original damage reports were later changed to make it look like the damage wasn't as bad. Many of them say they have been cheated out of their insurance claims. ![]() Now two and a half years later, Sandy victims have been hit by something else they didn't expect, the storm after the storm. What they didn't expect was just how bad Sandy turned out to be: 117 deaths, and damage estimated at more than $60 billion, second only to Katrina. When Hurricane Sandy made its way towards the East Coast in the fall of 2012, residents knew it could be devastating. Oriana Zill de Granados and Michael Rey, producers. The following is a script from "The Storm after the Storm" which aired on March 1, 2015. ![]()
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