Don’t Weather the Storm Alone

Due to Covid 19 the courts had been closed. I waited one year and three months to settle on an insurance claim for a roof leak in my home. Joseph Parrish took over my case at that time. I appreciated his honesty and straightforwardness. He resolved my case and we had settled in two months time, I couldn’t believe it was actually happening! I am so happy and thankful I’m getting ceilings repaired, and a new roof on my house! Casey Harmon is Joseph’s paralegal, she is professional and very sweet, they make a successful team.

Dear Joe, All the very best to you and your family, and all the best in your career. You are certainly one in a million and we appreciate everything you did for us in our case. Thanks for never giving up on us and ensuring that we received justice (from the opposite side of the planet). We wish you all the best of luck and happiness. Kindest regards from our family to yours.

What can I say about Joe and Casey? I moved to Florida from Indiana and bought my house in The Florida Keys just before Hurricane Irma. What was supposed to be my joy-filled (and fishing filled) retirement quickly turned into a nightmare. My house, my investment, my retirement, were destroyed by Hurricane Irma. To boot, my insurance company refused to pay for my claim. Joe and Casey took my case, came to my home themselves to inspect the damage, and all in all treated me like family (better than some of my family members, in fact, LOL). In fact, as they have now become two of my closest local friends, they still treat me like family. They battled my insurance company in court, recovered the money I needed to repair my home and get my life back on track, and then also forced the insurance company to pay my attorneys fees on top. Hiring Parrish Law means you not only gain an amazing legal ally, it also means you gain new friends (and fishing buddies). Thanks for always being there, and best of luck with the new firm. I know who I’ll be calling if disaster ever strikes again.

I hired Joe Parrish to take over my Hurricane Irma case about 2 years after Hurricane Irma destroyed my house. My entire house had to be gutted and my insurance company paid me peanuts and did nothing but insult us. I had another attorney before I hired Joe, who wouldn’t return my calls, never came to my house in person to see the damage, and who really did a whole lot of nothing for me and my family (other than wasting our time). I decided to fire the other attorney and take a chance on Joe. When I hired Joe and Casey, the difference was night and day. I had spoken with Joe more, in the first week after I fired my other attorney, than I had spoken with my other attorney in the span of 2 years. They care. They want to hear your story. Joe took over the case and told me he was essentially going to start from scratch. He hired new experts to inspect my house (who, by the way, were great people and very knowledgeable also) and took over my case with authority. I’m not an attorney and I don’t understand much when it comes to filing insurance claims, but whatever Joe did – he got the job done! In the Florida Keys there’s something that locals like to call “The Keys Disease” (it’s where people in the Keys act like they’re on vacation even if they’re not on vacation, and are generally lazy, less attentive, and less punctual with respect to business dealings – it’s a thing, look it up). Let me tell you, Joe and Casey don’t have Keys Disease. I live on one side of Big Pine and work in Key West. Joe’s office was in between my home and work, so I’d pass by his office every day around 5AM on my way to work. I’d see Joe’s truck parked at the office nearly every morning on my way to work, and then I’d see it there again nearly every day on my way home. I’d drive by there sometimes and see his truck parked at the office at nights and on weekends. It’s almost like he lived at the office. I could tell he loves what he does. I asked him about it one time and he told me something that has stuck with me to this day: “If I don’t put in the time, good people like you lose their homes and my conscience can’t handle that. It’s not that I’m passionate about being an attorney, it’s that I’m passionate about helping people. If my choices are between ‘take a day off to go fishing’ and ‘work late so that my clients don’t suffer’, I’m going to choose my clients every time.” He earned my trust, my respect, and my confidence with those words. The guy is relentless when it comes to his work ethic, and let me tell you the hard work paid off for me in the end. Down here in the Keys, sometimes it’s hard to know who you can trust and who you can’t when it comes to doing business. Joe and Casey are the “good guys”. They put their clients first and you will know, in your first time talking to them, that they care about you. Highly recommend. Best wishes to Joe and Casey with the new law firm, and congrats on the new addition to the family!

I am pleased to report that Mr. Parrish (and his team) achieved a $3.5 million settlement related to the Hurricane Irma damage to 9 building structures in four of our Orlando office/warehouse facilities. The team did a spectacular job. This process took over 4 years to hold a group of insurers accountable for these claims. There is no question that this claim was ultimately paid due to the dedication, tenacity, and capabilities of your team. This was a long hard road to a meaningful settlement after the first mediation resulted in an offer in the low six figures almost three years ago. Excellent job.
I would like to close on reflecting on what I see as perhaps the most meaningful lesson from this experience. Although my circumstances are different now, I grew up in a working-class family. My father served in the military in WWII and passed away when I was young. My mother raised three boys in New York on a nurse’s salary. I worked my way through Stanford holding two jobs while attending college and started my first high tech company in a small garage. Had this loss occurred years ago when I was operating in a small garage or had just a few properties with large mortgages I would have never been able to survive and keep a roof over my head and over those of my tenants and staff. My insurance agent has already confirmed that these large insurers have universally denied all claims from these major hurricanes, hoping that in protracted legal battles that most of these claims would simply be lost through attrition. This is how they make their profits. Clearly on this claim you brought these insurers to justice, but I also want to thank you for the service you provide to many others who would have had no other option to continue their fight for justice had they not had your firm representing them.

Thank you again for your great efforts.