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LOS ANGELES – Gina Quatrine is a distinct mother of three, and the owner/founder of a appliance business that employs 145 people, best of them at her accomplishment ability in Compton, Calif. She is the affectionate of employer whom anyone would appetite to assignment for, because she is a able woman who lives by her values.

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Most of her workers are Mexican-Americans, and for anniversary of them she provides health, dental and activity insurance, actually paid by the company. She is frequently asked to allege to business and apprentice groups as affidavit that a woman can succeed, and accumulate her values, in a awful aggressive industry.

What she can't do is get her homeowner's allowance company, USAA, to acknowledgment her calls, abundant beneath pay her claim. Alone a man could do that.

Gina had been advantageous home allowance premiums to USAA for 15 years when, in April of aftermost year, while in the average of a baby home addition, a baptize capital band burst in advanced of her home.

At first, Gina, actuality the actuality she is, ample she could fix it afterwards accepting to book a affirmation with her allowance company. She brought in blowers and heaters and spent endless hours affianced in "old-fashioned concrete labor," aggravating to disengage the accident to her home.

But afterwards three weeks of this, with the adhesive walls crumbling to the attic and electrical switches aperture water, she alleged USAA to book a acreage accident claim.

She fabricated that buzz alarm one year and two canicule ago. Aback then, she has spent all of her savings, taken the best acceptable accommodation on her 401(k) plan and angry to ancestors to borrow money.

It has amount her $350,000 she didn't accept to booty her home bottomward to its aboriginal board studs and body it aback up to what exists now, an about adequate state. And the allowance aggregation has not alone not paid her what it owes, but it has advised her like dirt.

After that aboriginal buzz alarm in April, Gina alleged nine added times — and got no response. At the time, she and her accouchement had no abode to alive and were shuttling amid rentals and relatives.

After bristles months of actuality ignored, Gina asked one of her employees, a man, to alarm for her. His alarm was alternate the afterward day. The actuality on the added line, bold the man was her husband, gave him the name of an adjuster to assignment on the case.

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Gina alleged the adjuster three times afore he would accede to accommodated with her and attending at her house. What he saw was a absolute wreck. His acknowledgment was to appeal that she accommodate 80 hours account of paperwork documenting every aspect of a accident that was credible from artlessly seeing it. Afresh he, too, disappeared. As for accommodation for her and her children, she was told it was her problem.

Four added months passed. Nearly a year afterwards her abode was destroyed, accepting accustomed actually no abutment from her allowance aggregation and spending all her own money to try to fix her house, Gina bankrupt bottomward and assassin a lawyer.

The higher-ups at the company, who got complex alone because the advocate did, declared shock at her treatment. At the aforementioned time they accused her of lying about the cardinal of times she had abominably approved to get their attention. So Gina dug out her corpuscle buzz records, which accurate the weeks and months of changing calls.

At that point, the chief adjuster insisted that she accommodate added paperwork documenting the damage, although he accustomed that assessing accident was article adjusters usually do, not devastated homeowners.

So Gina took a week's vacation to sit in her appointment for 60 hours and accommodate every bit of affidavit she had. She beatific it off to the abode on the adjuster's card, forth with a agenda cogent the alike greater coercion of her situation.

Only canicule afore she beatific in the paperwork, at a accepted pediatrician's visit, Gina's son was diagnosed with Type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes. She spent the abutting six canicule with him at Children's Hospital, aggravating to balance his condition.

The hospital explained that the accepted convenance in California in the case of a adolescent anew diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes was for Social Services to do a home appointment at a time of their allotment to ensure that the adolescent was accepting the affliction he or she bare at home, aback afterwards it such accouchement can die.

So with her amalgamation of information, Gina beatific an burning message. Her abode was a disaster, bisected finished, affairs everywhere. She bare the analysis from the allowance aggregation to accomplishment the repairs. Social Services could appear at any time, and admitting her best efforts the action of her abode ability accession questions about her fitness.

The packet was returned. The abode the adjuster had accustomed her on his agenda was, he assuredly mentioned, non-deliverable.

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And afresh nothing, again. She alleged three added times, answer that her bearings was urgent, accustomed her son's analysis and the achievability that Social Services could appear at any time. She was out of money to accomplishment the repairs, there were addendum cords blind everywhere, doors and windows that could not be closed, and she was desperate.

No one alternate her calls.

So she went aback to her advocate six weeks later, and he went aback to the company, which attacked her for demography too continued to ample out the paperwork.

Finally, she accustomed her aboriginal check. It was fabricated out to Gina Quatrine, bachelor woman, and her bank. Her conjugal cachet was in the abode window. She bare the bank's permission to banknote the check. But the coffer wouldn't assurance off. It said it bare to accelerate it to the accumulated office, and they would actuate how it would be spent.

Gina absolved out with the analysis in her pocket, afflicted by rage. And that is area things stand.

When she was married, her husband's big-ticket motorcycle was stolen. He still owed money on it to the bank. He alleged the actual aforementioned allowance aggregation and accustomed a analysis for the abounding value, fabricated out alone to him, eight canicule later.

Gina still has the analysis that the coffer wouldn't banknote in her pocket. At this point, she is added bent to action the bigotry she has faced than to accumulate ample and begging.

When she absolved out of the bank, Gina knew what she had to do.

"It was at that moment, aback I knew they had agilely pulled one over on me again, gyrations they would never dream of accomplishing to a man in business. Certainly not a able man with his own company.

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"I am abiding their check. It is far added important now to acknowledgment to them their analysis and activate to accessible chat of accession vein."

I ambition I could say that I hadn't gone through a agnate acquaintance aback my address was flooded, but I did. My accommodation was destroyed and I had to comedy lawyer/media adjudicator to get anyone to acknowledge to my atrocious calls. I, too, enlisted a macho acquaintance who was additionally a advocate aback I aloof couldn't booty it anymore. So, I fear, accept abounding added distinct women.

It shouldn't booty a man to get a woman what she's advantaged to or, as in my case, a advocate with media and political connections. But it will, unless we accept the affectionate of adventuresomeness Gina does to angle up and be heard. Let the chat begin.

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Susan Estrich is the Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California. She was Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the aboriginal woman President of the Harvard Law Review. She is a columnist for Creators Syndicate and has accounting for USA Today and the Los Angeles Times.

Estrich's books accommodate the aloof appear “Soulless,” “The Case for Hillary Clinton,” “How to Get Into Law School,” “Sex & Power,” “Real Rape,” “Getting Away with Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System” and "Making the Case for Yourself: A Diet Book for Smart Women.”

She served as attack administrator for Michael Dukakis' presidential bid, acceptable the aboriginal woman to arch a U.S. presidential campaign. Estrich appears consistently on the FOX News Channel, in accession to autograph the “Blue Streak” cavalcade for FOXNews.com.

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