{"id":463,"date":"2012-12-08T20:43:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T01:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/?p=463"},"modified":"2012-12-08T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T02:17:10","slug":"staten-islands-cardinale-family-beef-with-allstate-insurance-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/staten-islands-cardinale-family-beef-with-allstate-insurance-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island’s Cardinale Family Beef With Allstate Insurance Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe and Maria Cardinale have decided they’re mad as hell, and they are not taking it anymore!<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve 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\u2019m not covered for anything.\u201d ~ 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<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Daughter Tori says on her FaceBook page she and her family are not feelin’ this version of Allstate’s good hands slogan.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s been reported, as of Friday afternoon, emails and calls to Allstate Corp (ALL.N<\/a>), the\u00a0the 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<\/a> as catastrophe losses due to severe winter storms were lower than expected.<\/p>\n

Is it any wonder profits increase when legitimate claims are underpaid?<\/p>\n

Maybe their slogan really means Your money is in (their) “good hands”??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe and Maria Cardinale have decided they’re mad as hell, and they are not taking it anymore! \u201cI\u2019ve 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\u2019m not covered for anything.\u201d ~ Joe Cardinale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[37,41,259,36,94,16,42,38],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-business","tag-communications","tag-education","tag-housing","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-mental-health","tag-public-relations","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}