Lightning struck the home roof of legendary football coach Lou Holtz and his wife, Beth. Their two-story home of 11,000 square feet was in flames and had much of the roof and second floor collapsed into the first floor, while losing almost every piece of personal property as well. In the few weeks after the fire, the Holtz’s found the obligation of preparing their insurance claim overwhelming and were also looking at mitigation costs compounding daily. Coach Lou and Beth knew they were at a crossroads.
Realizing the carrier had no one overseeing them, it was either keep their fingers crossed that the insurance company would calculate their claim fully or the Holtz’s could hire their own experts, dedicated to working from their perspective, to be sure everything damaged was included for payment.
Coach Lou Holtz and his wife Beth hired Altieri Insurance Consultants. Right at the start, Altieri quickly discovered that without trained oversight of the mitigation activity, those services had escalated to almost $1 million in the first weeks after the fire. This concern was handled by Altieri immediately, holding intensive meetings on site and off, with the insurers and restorers to reign in those costs, preserving policy monies for the Holtz’s to use in their rebuilding effort.
As Coach Holtz said in his Fox News interview segment with Bob Massi, on “The Property Man,” “Hiring [Ray Altieri] was one of the smartest things that we did.” “I wanted to remove all the pressure off of my wife and provide her the convenience to not have to deal with the insurance.” Speaking about his insurance policy review practices, Coach said (like most people), “I never even looked at my insurance policy before this.” “But there were so many different things that he [Ray] brought to our attention.”
Upon being hired, the Altieri Team members began simultaneous assessment of all aspects of the claim: from insurance policy analysis to personal property listing to building damage reconstruction costs. The policy review provided the Holtz playbook for recovery; working closely with the Holtz’s created the damaged contents list-including items burned out of sight, while also working with construction experts in developing the rebuilding plan and costs.
To that end, Altieri Insurance Consultants were able to provide Coach Lou and Beth Holtz successful settlement of all areas of coverage to their maximum policy capacities, including unearthing so many of the more isolated sections of coverage only an experienced professional would know. What a beautiful home they have built.
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