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Louisiana is boosting its 'Fortified' home roof program with $10,000 grants, with first dibs going to those policyholders of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state's insurer of last resort.

A video appears to show a roofing contractor using a tool to simulate dents in the garage door, claiming it was hail damage.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney's office charged a San Jose, Calif. contractor with committing insurance fraud amounting to $460,000 three years after a fatal accident involving company trucks, where one employee died. 

IBHS has ranked nine shingle brands on how they endure dents and ridges, tears, and granule loss in relation to hailstorm damage.

The new roofing platform will focus on residential reroofing, predominantly on insurance-claim demand.

After fits and starts, the Louisiana legislature passed a series of reforms that will soon provide homeowners with grant money to help reroof homes affected by weather-related events to comply with new “Fortified” standards that exceed current building codes.

Homeowner insurance laws vary from state to state regarding environmental impact regulations and what exclusions from coverage a homeowner's insurance policy may delineate. Florida has recently passed some of the most sweeping changes protecting insurance companies' interests in the nation.