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Roof damage and replacement

april hailstorm took out half the roofs on my street in Minnesota. State Farm sent an engineer whose report calls my damage "cosmetic wear and tear" and they are offering $4,100 for spot repairs, while three licensed roofers independently say the roof needs full replacement ($26,800) and my shingle line is discontinued. how do i actually challenge an engineer report, and does Minnesota's matching rule force a full replacement when the shingles cannot be matched?

i am trying to figure out whether i am crazy or whether my carrier is running a play on me, because the gap between what State Farm says happened to my roof and what every roofer who has climbed on it...

Posted by annoyedClaimant108•
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State Farm denied my Oklahoma roof claim after an EF1 tornado-spawned hail and wind event in 2024 caused $87,400 in damage to a 14-year-old architectural asphalt shingle roof because the carrier asserted the roof was at end of useful life and applied a 70 percent depreciation factor reducing actual cash value to $26,200 with no replacement cost coverage available. Forced $79,800 replacement cost settlement using the matching statute analysis, the unit-of-loss doctrine, and the depreciation methodology challenge. The five-element approach to roof depreciation disputes on hail and wind claims

Posting this because roof depreciation disputes are one of the most common policyholder underpayment issues on hail and wind claims in tornado alley states, and the framework for forcing carriers to...

Posted by confused_homeowner_579•
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Allstate paid me $14,200 actual cash value on a roof claim after a Texas hailstorm even though the contractor estimate for full replacement was $31,800 because the policy contained a roof depreciation schedule and a matching-coverage limitation. Forced supplemental payment of $17,600 using the matching statute analysis, the cosmetic-damage doctrine, and the recoverable depreciation framework. The four-step approach to ACV roof-claim shortfalls

Posting this because actual cash value (ACV) roof claim shortfalls are the most common source of policyholder underpayment on storm damage losses, and the framework for forcing the carrier to pay the...

Posted by anxiousresident302•
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