For the last several years, complaints have piled up, contending that some Florida engineers have testified or have submitted reports in insurance claims lawsuits about major property damage that was somehow caused by relatively minor wind events.
Some of the plaintiffs’ expert-witness engineers appeared to cite irrelevant or unproven research, or have misconstrued studies to fit the needs of the policyholder attorneys’ claims, according to the complaints and people familiar with them.
“Some of these reports are just fraudulent. The engineer didn’t even go and look at the property—they just looked at photos,” said John