Hail, flood waters, and violent winds can cause a lot of damage to your property. After a strong storm, you might have holes all throughout your siding, broken windows, and missing roofing shingles. When you are faced with this type of situation, you will want to file a claim with your homeowners insurance company. They should be able to issue you a check that will cover for the repairs and replacement of damaged pieces of your property. In some cases, homeowners find that their insurance company has denied their claim. Should you find that this has happened to you, you will want to make use of the following suggestions.

Get Plenty Of Pictures

You will want to make sure that you are taking plenty of pictures of all of the damage from the storm. There is no such thing as too many pictures when it comes to needing to prove the damage that has happened to your home from the storm. Make sure that you are taking pictures of the damage from as many angles you can and to get close ups, as well as some longer distance shots. You will need these photos to help prove your case. If you have any news articles or pictures from the day or night of the storm itself, you will want to include those in your file of evidence as well.

Hire An Attorney

After you have gathered all of your pictures, you will want to speak with a storm damage attorney. He or she will look over your photos, look up information on the storm that hit your area, and look over the denial letter from your insurance company. At that point, the storm damage attorney will be able to explain how he or she can help you. Once you retain the storm damage attorney, you will not have to worry about directly contacting the insurance company on your own about this anymore. Your attorney will handle all phone calls and paper correspondence regarding this until the claim is finally paid. Also, should additional damage happen to your property because of the delay of the claim being paid, your attorney may be able to get you compensation for that.

It is important to make sure that you are getting started with those tips as soon as you find out that your insurance company has denied your storm damage claim. This way, you can get the money you need to repair your home as soon as possible. For more information, contact a law office such as Law Offices of Jeremy W McKey. 

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