Staten Island’s Cardinale Family Beef With Allstate Insurance Claim
Joe and Maria Cardinale have decided they’re mad as hell, and they are not taking it anymore!
“I’ve been paying for a top-of-the-line [insurance policy] for all these years. They knew I had a waterfront home. They took my money and now that I need their help, I’m not covered for anything.” ~ Joe Cardinale homeowner, on unsatisfactory insurance coverage for his family’s home by Allstate’s Deluxe Plus Homeowners Policy in an interview with the Staten Island Live web site.
The picture of the huge hole in their house is the result of the super storm, Hurricane Sandy; the storm which ravaged portions of the Caribbean, and devastated the Middle Atlantic and Northeastern states of the United States in late October 2012.
To express their extreme displeasure with the insurer’s for approval of a benefit payment of $165.35 (USD), to which Joe Cardinale has been paying premiums for more than fourteen years, the next picture shows Joe and his wife Maria holding a banner sarcastically thanking Allstate for the promise to provide a payment that is at best a mere drop in a very large bucket to restore their home to its previous condition.
Daughter Tori says on her FaceBook page she and her family are not feelin’ this version of Allstate’s good hands slogan.
“I don’t feel like we’re ‘in good hands’. ” ~ One of Joe and Maria’s daughters on her disappointment with Allstate’s response to the family’s home owner’s insurance claim.
It’s been reported, as of Friday afternoon, emails and calls to Allstate Corp (ALL.N), the the nation’s largest listed U.S. home and auto insurer, which reported profit increases in 2011 due to reduced catastrophic losses, have gone unreturned. The Northbrook, Illinois-based Allstate said its first-quarter 2011 net income more than tripled as catastrophe losses due to severe winter storms were lower than expected.
Is it any wonder profits increase when legitimate claims are underpaid?
Maybe their slogan really means Your money is in (their) “good hands”??
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