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Pressure from Clients
Posted by: John J. Lentini, CFEI (IP Logged)
Date: April 11, 2007 08:31AM
Interesting story about independent engineers responding to perceived pressure to go along.
E-mails criticized State Farm
Internal communications at engineering firm questioned ethics of insurer's actions
By Chris Joyner
chris.joyner@jackson.gannett.com
An attorney for Mississippi Gulf Coast residents who lost homes to Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday that e-mail between executives in a North Carolina firm shows how insurance companies pressured disaster engineers to attribute the destruction to flooding.
Homeowner policies did not cover flooding.
In the e-mail, Randy Down, vice president of engineering for Forensic Analysis and Engineering Corp., expressed "serious concern about the ethics" of demands from State Farm Fire and Casualty that a property be reinspected after an engineer with the company found high winds were the primary cause of the home's destruction.
For the complete story go to: [www.clarionledger.com] It will probably be up for only a few days. The rest of the link is printed below.
/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070411/NEWS/704110362/1001/NEWS
John Lentini, CFI, D-ABC
Fire Investigation Consultant
Florida Keys
[www.firescientist.com]
E-mails criticized State Farm
Internal communications at engineering firm questioned ethics of insurer's actions
By Chris Joyner
chris.joyner@jackson.gannett.com
An attorney for Mississippi Gulf Coast residents who lost homes to Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday that e-mail between executives in a North Carolina firm shows how insurance companies pressured disaster engineers to attribute the destruction to flooding.
Homeowner policies did not cover flooding.
In the e-mail, Randy Down, vice president of engineering for Forensic Analysis and Engineering Corp., expressed "serious concern about the ethics" of demands from State Farm Fire and Casualty that a property be reinspected after an engineer with the company found high winds were the primary cause of the home's destruction.
For the complete story go to: [www.clarionledger.com] It will probably be up for only a few days. The rest of the link is printed below.
/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070411/NEWS/704110362/1001/NEWS
John Lentini, CFI, D-ABC
Fire Investigation Consultant
Florida Keys
[www.firescientist.com]
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