Policyholders are using the appraisal clause in their homeowners' policies to reopen their cases, reports Best's Review.
“The reason we’re seeing so much of it, a lot of it goes back to bad adjusting work. The job wasn’t done correctly in the first place,” said Drew Powell, general adjuster and manager for Davidson & Co. in Alabama.
Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana were responsible for much of the more than $47 billion worth of insured losses to the insurance industry from the hurricane, which hit in August 2005.