Local pols bring to light fraudulent flood insurance claims, urge Sandy victims to resubmit
Elected officials gathered outside the home of Vincent and Terri Ann Carrozza on Sunday, March 1 to urge all Brooklynites who suffered property damage during Superstorm Sandy that were denied or underpaid to resubmit their flood insurance claims.
The urgency, Councilmember Mark Treyger explained, rode in on the coattails of multiple fraudulent reports in engineering evaluations used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Carrozzas, he said, are just one example of that.
“These are property owners whose homes were destroyed by Sandy and who were paying for flood insurance,” the Coney Island councilmember told this paper, “and now, these damage assessments are claiming that a flood did not damage their home. When the whole world saw pouring rain drench most of our coastal community, the insurance companies are claiming something else.”