tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947675223908591710.post3414084448469485534..comments2024-03-24T06:13:04.146-07:00Comments on EcoMerge: Man Made Failures: Preparation and MaintenanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947675223908591710.post-11005316712023836202010-06-05T21:28:01.264-07:002010-06-05T21:28:01.264-07:00Here's a follow up to this news item...
PORTL...Here's a follow up to this news item...<br /><br />PORTLAND, Ore. – Jurors will keep deliberating the case of a woman suing her insurance company over a West Hills landslide that destroyed her home in 2008.<br /><br />Kathei Hendrickson barely made it out of her home alive when it slid down the hill in Southwest Portland.<br /><br />The landslide that swept Hendrickson's home down a hillside in southwest Portland took just 20 minutes to turn her house to rubble.<br /><br />Now, well over a year later, Hendrickson sits in a Multnomah County Court, suing Farmers Insurance Company for denying her claim.<br /><br />Four days of trial testimony is now in the hands of the jury.<br /><br />Neighbors say the devastating landslide was nothing compared to what Kathei has endured from her insurance company since the slide.<br /><br /> “I just feel like it's a travesty,” neighbor Michelle Becker told KATU News. “I really believe that they had a viable claim against their insurance company and that it should have been filled in the first couple months.”<br /><br />Hendrickson’s attorney believes the case turns on what triggered the massive slide. No one was hurt in the slide.<br /><br />“I think the critical issue in this case is was there, or was there not, earth movement and that's what the jury will be deciding,” said attorney Robert Bonaparte, who is representing Hendrickson.<br /><br />Hendrickson’s attorney says the insurance document is very lengthy - 42 pages long - the kind of document any homeowner would have a difficult time understanding.<br /><br />Farmers maintains that exclusions written into that policy – which it calls "protector plus" – mean it shouldn't have to pay for the damage.<br /><br />However, as the judge swore in the clerk overseeing jury deliberations, a Burlingame Place neighbor Michelle Becker said she believes the maze of strange exclusions surrounding the case should worry any homeowner.<br /><br />“I can't even comprehend how they could sell earthquake insurance to them, and then exclude earth movement,” Becker said. “It makes no sense.”<br /> <br />Hendrickson said Farmers Insurance should pay for her $680,000 house, lost possessions and repairs to make her land buildable again.<br /> <br />Attorneys for Farmers Insurance declined to talk with KATU News.<br />http://www.katu.com/news/89801312.htmlEcoMergehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14745889221470660563noreply@blogger.com