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Man on Insurance Company: "I trusted them"

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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2013 · News & Politics

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by Alyssa Spirato When disaster strikes your home, usually the first thing you do is pick up the phone and call the insurance company. One Ringgold man says he did just that only to be told later on, they would refuse to cover the cost.I thought we would be covered too. I didn't know we would run into this mess, says resident Willie Goldsmith.Crews spent most of the day in Willie Goldsmith's backyard, cutting away at a number of trees that fell which later resulted in a mudslide. But as it stands right now, the insurance company isn't going to be the one forking over the bill to pay for cleanup.That's because Georgia Farm Bureau insurance says their policy doesn't cover mudslides.He said I have to look at my computer to see if you are covered in that situation. I said well, they said we were. I said $2,050 ain't much. I'll pay probably 3 times that end. He said nope, you ain't covered, says Goldsmith.It's crazy that he's served in two wars and been with this insurance company for 30 years and never really had no big claim. To me when you go out there and look, it's trees down not a mudslide first, says Goldsmith's granddson Jimmy McDevitt.McDevitt says he doesn't understand why insurance won't take care of the issue. Especially when he says he's heard two sides of the story. One from the tree service, the other from the insurance company.If it would have been the mudslide knocked the tree over, they said the mud would have covered the roots. The roots are all exposed out there so it had to be the tree came up and caused the mudslide, says McDevitt.Until then Goldsmith says his hands are tied.I pay my twenty dollar membership. Which it means probably nothing. As far as I'm concerned, it does not mean anything. The way they're treating me right now I don't think the insurance is worth 50 cents, says Goldsmith.NewsChannel9 tried reaching Georgia Farm Bureau Insurance for comment. As of Tuesday evening, we have not heard anything back.

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