A Southern California homeowner is suing Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. for canceling her longstanding insurance policy, accusing the company of dropping her for bogus reasons.
In the proposed class-action lawsuit, Maria Badin said she had been a Liberty Mutual customer since 1993, when she bought her home in Poway. She alleged that in late August, the insurance giant sent her a letter saying it would not be renewing her policy because an underwriting review involving an aerial inspection of her property had determined that there was “algae/mildew/mold/moss” on her roof.
Badin said she was not aware of any contamination issues. Soon after, she hired an independent, licensed roofing company to inspect her roof, which she said found no evidence of algae, mildew, mold or moss…