Chris Bertini lost his office because of Hurricane Ike.
Below are the pictures of the aftermath.

“I’ve been practicing law in Galveston for 19 years. This is what was left of my office after Ike. People often ask “What did you lose?” I lost EVERYTHING! My office had 8 feet of water and I lost the home of my dreams.”

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Jeff Raizner: (Transcript from video)

One of the biggest problems that we’ve seen from the insurance companies is what happens when they send their adjusters out there in the beginning. We are seeing this from many clients and from looking at everybody’s home and businesses. What happens is the insurance companies come out there the first time and give a clearly low ball estimate.

No reasonable insurance adjuster, no reasonable insurance company would look at a house with a roof that is gone, completely damaged and say it would cost a thousand dollars to fix this. Then they come out a second time with a different adjuster and maybe provide a little more money, but it is still not appropriate and still not the right amount.

What we do when we get involved is send out an independent adjuster who does what the insurance company was supposed to have done the first time, looks at everything, actually climbs on the roof, actually looks at the walls, looks at the outside, spends some time there and provides a fair and a honest estimate of what the damages are.

We then get that to the insurance company and sometimes they will pay a little bit more voluntarily and sometimes they won’t. Most of the time, the case will have to end up in a lawsuit and that is when we can get into the position where we can get the results for you.

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Still a year after Hurricane Ike, insurance companies are still not doing what is right. Chris Bertini, a local Galveston attorney, had his office destroyed by Hurricane Ike. Chris had been practicing Law in Galveston for over 19 years. Galveston is his home.

This is his story:

“We’re not some law firm that puts their billboard on the highway or gets on TV. We’re here to help our fiends and family members. This is personal to us. This means a lot to us.

I want people to know that we’re going to be here after this is done. After, I hope, this city (Galveston) is rebuilt. We are going to be here, and we are here to stay.

I hope that the family that owns this home rebuilds, and my daughter can play here again, with her friends who grew up in that house.

This is what makes us different.

This is OUR HOME.”

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Listen to one of our clients that we have helped – Eric – “The insurance company that I’d paid my premiums to was denying everything. They did not want to pay for anything. That is why I’d hired Chris Bertini and Jeff Raizner.

After I’d hired them it was a total different case. The insurance company wanted to help me out. They wanted to do this. They wanted to do that…. but it was only because I hired a lawyer (Doyle Raizner LLP and Chris Bertini & Associates). Before I hired a lawyer, I was nobody. I guess I was just a number. I was not a case. But after I hired a lawyer, I was a person then… instead of a number….”

“I appreciate what Jeff and Chris did for me…. I’m glad that Jeff and Chris helped me out with this issue.”

Call us. We will not treat you like just another claim.

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Eric is one of the many clients that we have helped with disputes against insurance companies that have refused to pay a fair amount to repair the damages after Hurricane Ike.

Give us a call if you are still experiencing problems with your hurricane insurance claim. We can help.

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http://www.hurricanefirm.com -  Chris Bertini: When Hurricane Ike hit Galveston and it destroyed my office and my house, Jeff Raizner and Mike Doyle called me the day after the hurricane. They asked me how I was doing, did I need a place to live and a place to work out of. I have known those two men for many years. They are my friends. I grew up with them. We had cases together.

Our two law firms, Doyle Raizner LLP and Bertini and Associates, have tried cases against these insurance companies and we’ve gotten the verdicts against them for doing the wrong thing.

Mike Doyle and Jeff Raizner have been suing insurance companies for years along with Chris Bertini and had verdicts that have been tested in the courts. They have taken cases up on appeal and they have been successful.

They are fighters. They are my friends.

And I am thankful they were there on September 14th, when I lost everything. I know they will be there for my other friends in Galveston. They have been here before the hurricane hit. And they have their office in Galveston with me.

That is what sets us apart from the other firms. We have been down here fighting insurance companies before Ike and we will be there afterwords.

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When our clients hire us and come to us they have had insurance companies come out to their homes sometimes as many as twelve times. This is a delay tactic. When you hire Doyle Raizner and Bertini & Associates, we send an adjuster to your home immediately.

Our adjusters assess the damages to the property, and we gather the documents necessary to understand and evaluate the claim. Then we send a demand letter to the insurance company outlining the appropriate payment due under the policy. We try to work with the insurance companies to resolve the claims quickly and efficiently, but we have often discovered that insurance companies refuse to honor their obligations.

So we do the one thing that gets their attention; we sue them. And that is what we are doing right now; we are bringing these cases to the courts to force these insurance companies to do the right thing.

We are working with our clients to resolve their claims as quickly as possible because we understand what it means to go through this frustrating process. They are tired of delays.

They are tired of the unnecessary inspections and re-inspections and re-inspections to get what they are entitled to. The insurance companies have all the information they need to resolve your case.

When you hire Doyle Raizner, when you hire Bertini and Associates, you are going to have our phone numbers. You will not be a file number or claim number or policy number. You are going to be a friend and a family member that we are going to work for because my friends and my family have lost everything.  We are tired of it.

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Help With Insurance Claims

Doyle Raizner LLP is a law firm with offices in Houston and Galveston. Our practice involves pursuing insurance companies when they deny claims in bad faith.  These cases involve denial of property damage to homes and businesses, denial of business interruption claims and other insurance matters.

We represent hundreds of homeowners and business owners in their insurance claims arising out of damage from Hurricane Ike.  Our firm is one of the few that has actually tried cases to verdict against insurance companies in Houston and Galveston, and had those verdicts tested on appeal.  Many firms are newcomers to our area and the pursuit of the insurance industry, but our firm was here and handling claims against the insurance industry before Hurricane Ike, and we’ll be here after Hurricane Ike.

About Our other Practice Areas

Doyle Raizner is a trial law firm with offices in Houston and in Galveston. Our maritime practice involves cases for men and women injured on drilling rigs, on work boats, in helicopters.

These cases involve incidents that occur all over the world, whether it’s close by in the Gulf Coast in Texas or Louisiana, or as far away as places like Brazil or the Middle East or Antarctica. We also handle cases for international travelers, men and women who are here in the United States either working or on holiday and have suffered an injury while they’re here.

Our insurance bad faith practice involves cases against workers compensation insurance companies, cases against property and casualty insurers arising out of hurricane damage, Hurricane Ike.

We handle cases against kidnap and ransom insurers who absolutely refuse to pay even though someone or their family member has been kidnapped somewhere far away, South America, the Middle East, Africa. That’s what our practice is here at Doyle Raizner.

MIKE DOYLE: We get that the hardest challenge you have right now is knowing who to trust and it’s our sacred responsibility. We really understand that you’re dealing with situations that you and your family have never faced before and you don’t really know who to trust and you don’t understand the process. You don’t understand or never heard of some of the choices that are being presented to you, some of the things that are being done.

The insurance company, the drilling company, the folks that have put you in the position you’re in, they understand what’s going on and they understand the process.

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JEFF RAIZNER: The insurance industry has been nothing but a roadblock to recovery standing in the way of getting your home repaired, getting your business back in order, getting your feet back on the ground.

CHRIS BERTINI: On September the 13th, 2008 Hurricane Ike hit Galveston Island. My name is Chris Bertini. I’m an attorney working with Doyle Raizner. I have an office in Galveston. On that day, my office took eight feet of water. My house was destroyed. My family has been split apart.

Two days later I got a call from Jeff and Mike, my friends, saying Chris, we’re here to help you. Come to our office, bring your staff, bring your family, stay at our house.

And we decided then that we were going to take on the insurance companies, the mortgage companies, the title companies and the insurance agents who came in right after Hurricane Ike and denied claims and refused to pay what should have been paid for that damage. I’m a victim of Hurricane Ike and we’re here to help you.

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