Cpm construction
Orlando,#2Author of original report
Sat, July 09, 2011
I want to thank everyone who supported me through the past 4 years. Its
a story that sounds like a movie script. In 2006, a huge hailstorm
damaged hundreds of homes in Indiana. State Farm, not surprisingly,
denied many of the claims. After complaints to the Indiana Department
of Insurance led it to begin an investigation, State Farm accused a
myself and my company of intentionally damaging roofs in order to
collect insurance.
What does State Farm do? Accuse the accuser of
fraud to protect its brand. After all, it has to protect its clients
from fraudulent claims, right? State Farm sent information to the
Indianapolis Police Department which led to felony charges being filed
against me and CPM Construction. Funny enough not any evidence for my
engineers, other contractors that inspected the property before my
company, and yes the changed engineering reports that state farm
requested to be done. the first ones said not hail damages as they all
did at this time in indy but requested them to be changed and now they
say " Man Made Damages" funny how the notes were redacted that said to
make changes and how the first engineering reports were with held. Those
charges were quickly dropped, but the damage to my business and
reputation had been done.
Thanks to the work of Mark Mikensey,
Joe Williams, Will Riley and other attorneys at both Price, Waicukauski
& Riley, LLC and Riley, Bennett and Egloff, I was vindicated when a
jury awarded me $14.5 million for defamation. Thats right, the claim
that my company and myself had committed fraud were FALSE. I had never
committed fraud at all but was simply a hard-working contractor swept up
in State Farms campaign to increase its profit margins and create
another example of how fraudulent claims are destroying businesses.
So
next time you hear an insurance company talking about how it works hard
to avoid frivolous claims and fights fraud. Think of me " Joe
Radcliff "