Soon after Megastorm Sandy struck New Jersey in October 2012, unsavory contractors and public adjusters began coming out of the woodwork to reap the riches from stricken homeowners and their insurance companies.
While most contractors and adjusters are honest and honorable, natural disasters tend to bring out the ethically challenged ones, even some that are unlicensed and from far-away states.
That's a reality that resident Mike Kramer lived through for the last year or so as he battled a Texas-based public adjuster who showed up at his doorstep after the storm. The surge from Sandy brought two feet of water into Mike's bay-front summer home in Harvey Cedars, N.J. An affable and convincing salesperson used the typical sales line that Kramer was apt to get a lot more out of his insurance company by hiring a public adjuster.
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