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'Did Anyone From Allstate Ever Call You?': Ashley Moody Questions Homeowner With Property Damage
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5/27/2025
At a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing prior to the Congressional recess, Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) spoke to Natalia Migal, a property owner whose home was damaged in a weather event.
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Senator Booty. Thank you so much, Chair. You know, Florida is no stranger to
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disasters. In fact, my state has suffered through some incredibly serious, damaging,
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tragic storms. And all too often I find myself speaking to Floridians who are
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struggling to put their, not just their homes back together, but their lives back
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together, because so much of our lives is embedded and built within our homes.
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And let me just thank you all for taking time to be here today and talk, talk to
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us. I know coming to a Senate hearing is no small thing. I want to thank the chair
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for putting this together and for making sure that we have two panels so that we
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can talk to a variety of people. We can only fit so many people here at the table
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right now. I think making sure that we are paying attention to the
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public discourse right now in terms of challenges in recovery and even some
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public stories about what is being found underneath insurance companies and
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claims and helping people recover. And I think the the worst thing we could do
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right now is to not have a hearing like this to address what is being said in the
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broader conversation in America, especially in states where we have suffered storms and
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people are still right now trying to recover. Obviously, as attorney general, I even had
01:36
to sue representative of FEMA after the last storm. And so we know that we can't just
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leave everything to happen and trust that everybody is going to play according to the
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rules without some sort of oversight. And so I think it is important that you were
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here today to share your stories. And I also think it's important for our
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colleagues and for the subcommittee to learn more about what is going on. Just as
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we would expect insurance companies to do the right thing and live up to the
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policies that they have offered and certainly have collected money and payment
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on, we know that is in every industry. We have those that are good faith players
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and we have those that that may seek to do harm or take advantage of a tragic
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situation. And I wanted to ask you, Ms. McGough, I know that you have specifically
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had a bad experience. And I wondered, I think I think you mentioned you had the one
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adjuster come out and then another adjuster come out. Did anyone from Allstate ever
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call you and walk through the specifics of why something may be covered by your
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policy or not covered by your policy or was it just an adjuster coming out and
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communicating with you? No, no one called me to walk me through the details of the
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policy and how they that would be applied. I was called mostly regarding
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scheduling matters and the adjusters. So even after the multiple estimates as they
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gave you lower estimates than you had received, no one called to tell you line
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by line why something may or may not have been covered? That is correct. And Mr.
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Schroeder, I'll ask you first, when you submitted your estimate, when you had
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discussions, did anyone go with you line by line why something might not be worth
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what you estimated or might not be covered by the policy?
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Um, are you are you asking when I when I submit an estimate to the reviewers do they
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go through? They if there's something they disagree with, you know, they would say to
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remove it. There's typically not an explanation for why and when there is more
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often than not, it's not, um, what I would say legitimate, not according to the
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policy. It's, uh, you know, that hail damage is entailed damage. Take it off.
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Or that is wear and tear and not hail damage. Take it off. Those are the answers I
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would get. But no, they wouldn't go through my entire estimate line by line with me.
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No. And Ms. Miguel, I'm going to come back to you for a moment. Um, when you
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didn't receive right away the money you needed to repair the home, were you forced
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to come out of pocket to repair the house? We have done relatively minor repairs so
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far, simply because we do not have any insight into the budget that we might have
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at hand. So only the most crucial repairs, um, and for example, putting a tarp up on
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the roof, uh, to prevent further damage or rainfall, um, has been done so far.
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And you had to pay for that just out of your own money, money that was probably taxed on
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your income? Yes, that's correct. And of course, engaging with, um, external, uh, experts
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such as the engineer was also out of pocket. Would that have been helpful to be able
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to deduct from your taxes the money you had to lay out to recover for your roof with storm
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damage? I have not deducted those, um, expenses from my taxes at this point. Would that have
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been helpful to recover? Would that have been helpful? Uh, likely, yes. I've been exploring
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with, with colleagues, uh, you know, and a bipartisan approach to trying to address, uh, money that
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people are having to use from their own pocket. They, they get money from their jobs and then
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they have to outlay it to stop rain from coming into their home and then they still have to pay taxes
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on that money. Would that have been helpful to you and your family? Absolutely. That would have
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been helpful. And, uh, and I don't want to go over time, but Mr. Quinn, I would like to follow up with
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you. I know that you've been so focused on this and I know much, a lot of your energy and time and
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talent has been focused on this issue. Would, do you believe it would be helpful? And I know many states
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are set up and structured different ways, right? Um, one agency may have statutory authority to
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investigate these matters where another agency wouldn't. And so if that one isn't moving fast
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enough or this one wants to compliment it, sometimes that's not available and it looks
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different in different states. Do you think it would be helpful to have a cross section from
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different agencies being able to within one state task force or even federally a task force where that
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where the agents or the officers are specially trained in this area? Yes, ma'am. I believe that would be
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very helpful. Thank you, Chair.
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