Shady Moving Companies

When I moved from Oakland back to Louisiana, the moving company didn't show up with my stuff at the scheduled time. I contacted them and they said they called the driver and they were stuck in traffic in the Dallas area. Hey, that makes sense, is what I thought. However, when they never arrived later that day, nor did they arrive the next day, I called again. They then told me the truck was having engine issues. A few hours later, they called and said that what had really happened was that the truck caught fire and everything burned. I of course had not taken the extra insurance since I was basically just fresh out of college. I had lawyers check up with them and after several weeks of back and forth, they offered no evidence at all regarding the actual fire or loss, just that it was completely gone. They wrote me a check for their insured value on the items, which was, if I recall, somewhere around .25 cents a pound. It totaled about $1000. I had just purchased a new bed, new leather couch and chair, all my clothes, books, jewelry, Saints memorabilia etc etc. Gone, for $1000. When I put some lawyers on it, the company immediately declared for bankruptcy and dissolved. To this day, I'm pretty sure that all my belongings ended up sold in Mexico somewhere.