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Tis The Season for Giving!

Sauro & Bergstrom has teamed up with The Food Group – Minnesota’s local food bank For the next month we will be collecting non-perishable food items and monetary donations for The Food Group Your generous donation will help to provide healthy foods and critical support services to more than 200 local hunger relief agencies, such as food...

Sauro & Bergstrom, PLLC featured as “Law Firm of the Month” in Attorney at Law Magazine

Sauro & Bergstrom, PLLC is featured in this month's edition of Attorney at Law Magazine  For more information and to view the full article, click here: Attorney At Law - Sauro & Bergstrom, PLLC - Law Firm of the Month Law Firm of The Month   By Vicki Hogue-Davies “In a nutshell, our philosophy is you don’t have to be a...

Trial Court Rules in Favor of S&B Client Allowing Bad Faith Claim to Proceed

An insurer who failed to inform S&B's client of all applicable coverages, specifically denied the existence of a policy that would provide coverage, and offered repeated patterns of conflicting positions on the policy coverages will face a proceeding subsequent to trial on its lack of good faith claims handling  Minnesota Statute Section...

National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters’ Summer 2013 Bulletin features Sauro & Bergstrom victory

MINNESOTA COURT THROWS OUT IMPROPER APPRAISAL: AMERICAN FAMILY ORDERED TO PAY ITS INSURED ATTORNEYS FEES A resort that sustained hail and wind damage was not bound by an appraisal award where the insurer’s appraiser and umpire improperly conducted their own investigation during deliberations and failed to allow the insured to present its...

Partner Brenda Sauro Quoted in Finance & Commerce on Real Estate Disclosure

Legal Matters: Full disclosure Posted: 12:09 pm Mon, August 19, 2013 By Dan Heilman Tags: Brenda Sauro, Chad A Kelsch, Christopher R Jones, disclosure, Fuller Seaver Swanson & Kelsch, Hellmuth & Johnson, Minnesota Association of Realtors, Sauro & Bergstrom Of the myriad forms that are filled out during a real estate...

Public Adjusters are a Good Owner Resource for the Initial Claims Handling Process

Public adjusters are a good owner resource for the initial claims handing process  A Public Adjuster is a licensed and trained specialist that adjusts insurance claims for homeowners, commercial property owners and businesses  Public adjusters have experience in hail claims, fire loss, contents inventories, storm damage, and other occurrences...

12 Things To Do When You Have Storm Damage

  Take pictures as soon as possible of all the damage that you can see, as well as any evidence of the storm such as large hail, wind damage to the surrounding area such as fallen trees, etc  Taking video can also be helpful Take steps to prevent further damage from occurring,  ie placing tarps over a hole in the roof or placing buckets to...

Hail Damage Eagan & Eden Prairie

August 2013: Damaging hail is a frequent by-product of some of our severe storm weather in Minnesota  Recently, large hail smashed homes in Eagan and Eden Prairie causing thousands in damage to roofs, siding, windows and outdoor personal property  Our Minnesota hail team can help you if your insurance company fails to pay you for the damages...

Sauro & Bergstrom win at the Minnesota Court of Appeals in the case of Engineering & Construction Innovations vs. Western National Insurance Company, successfully resurrecting the case after the trial court dismissed it on summary judgment.

In this insurance coverage case, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled that the insurer was required under Minn Stat § 72A201 (the Minnesota Fair Claims Practices Act) to disclose all available insurance policies and insurance coverage that the client had when a loss occurred The insurance company’s failure to disclose resulted in Engineering...