With Five Months To Go, John Michael Hughes Sees Most Of His Work Ahead

PENSACOLA, FL, August 19, 2010

For John Michael Hughes, the fall of 2010 is shaping up to be a busy one. As owner of Leeco Consulting Company, LLC, John Michael Hughes serves an industry that few people consider ... until they need him. John Michael Hughes is a licensed professional insurance adjuster with more than a decade of disaster settlement experience. This empowers him to represent both individuals and commercial clients as they attempt to navigate equitable settlements through claims for losses due to hurricane, flood, mold, fire and other perils. More technically, John Michael Hughes is a public adjuster and provides assistance to those claimants and insureds that have suffered an insurable loss.

This time of year, John Michael Hughes focuses his attentions toward the potential for hurricanes. From a base in the southeastern United States, John Michael Hughes keeps particular focus on the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic hurricane season technically started in June of this year and ends in November 2010. Atlantic hurricanes affect the east coast, gulf coasts and the Caribbean nations in particular. Because of this, both state and federal officials always project activity. If they are correct, this fall will be a busier than usual hurricane season and John Michael Hughes will be one of the first adjusters who steps in to assist those affected.

This year there are special concerns that a hurricane will hit the already-devastated island of Haiti as well as concerns about how a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico would affect the oil spill created by the explosion of the BP oil rig. These potentials for disaster, coupled with the threat of hurricane strikes in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, could keep John Michael Hughes and the Leeco Consulting Company very busy.

John Michael Hughes has amassed deep experience in settling hurricane claims. Tracking back as far as Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and continuing through Hurricanes Luis, Marilyn, and Opal, John Michael Hughes has acted as a public adjuster. John Michael Hughes has provided service for his own firm and employers and acted as a subcontractor for major insurance providers.

John Michael Hughes provides a service, but what draws people to his firm is his ability to combine best practices as a public adjuster while focusing on the lives ravaged by natural disasters. A decade of fair and ethical practice, a compassionate perspective on life and a constantly changing insurance industry combine to create a profession that is never boring. And so as John Michael Hughes watches the Weather Channel, projects into the potential need for his services and reflects on the faces of those he has helped, he can' t stop thinking about the balance of 2010. For John Michael Hughes, New Years Eve always offers relief for a season. Unfortunately, Mother Nature always returns with new surprises, but that is for another year.

John Michael Hughes is the CEO and owner of Leeco Consulting Company located in Pensacola, Florida. He can be reached at 850-390-6680 or at info@leecoconsulting.com.

Dedicating a professional career to a single purpose is recognized as admirable in today's economic environment. For John Michael Hughes it was a focus and interest that began as he exited college. Graduating from the University of South Alabama with a Bachelor of Science degree, John Michael Hughes set his vocational target on the insurance industry early on.

From 1992 until 1995, John Michael Hughes served as an Insurance Adjuster for Pilot Catastrophe Services, Inc. In this position he handled commercial and residential property insurance claims for wind, flood, ice, and earthquake losses. As an early training ground his responsibilities and claim ranges allowed him to develop a strategic understanding of the complexities of insurance claims.

Leveraging this experience in claims, John Michael Hughes has invested the last fourteen years of his professional life in executive management with an all lines public insurance adjusting firm. From 1996 until 2000 John Michael Hughes served as the owner and Chief Executive Officer of JMH and Associates. John Michael Hughes gained further Acts Of God claims experience as well as first hand exposure to the complexities of business ownership. The years of experience tied to natural disasters allowed John Michael Hughes to quantify and qualify claims filed quickly. This skill set was sought after and led to yet another opportunity for John Michael Hughes.

Since 2007, John Michael Hughes has devoted his time and energy to Leeco Consulting Company, LLC, again acting as Chief Executive Officer for the company. With claims services focused mainly in Florida, John Michael Hughes has continued to handle both commercial and residential property claims. His services have also been utilized throughout the Caribbean for both wind and flood losses. John Michael Hughes has further refined his focus and now has a concentration in hurricane claims. With this expansion and professional focus has come larger cases and expanded claims responsibilities. John Michael Hughes currently provides claims settlements that exceed five million dollars.

A natural byproduct of extensive claims settlement work also created opportunities within the area of historical property restoration. With activities generally focused in Alabama, John Michael Hughes acted as a Director for AD, LLC from 1998-2009. John Michael Hughes provided property management and development for this firm. Additionally, from 1996 until 2005 John Michael Hughes managed and consulted on a 26-acre island land development in Florida through Perdido Gardens, LLC. As a partner, John Michael Hughes benefited when the partnership was sold to a public NYSE property development company.

John Michael Hughes continues to blend his knowledge of claims settlements management and restoration complexities in a deep, diversified professional direction that allows him to step outside of most traditional professional vocational paths. It has also allowed him the opportunity to pursue other passions.

John Michael Hughes is currently working toward a Masters in Theology and aspires to complete this training in the fall 2012. John Michael Hughes has reached a point in his life where he will be able to apply decades of experience to a profession and blend this time commitment with a deeper calling that speaks to a different opportunity for his future.

John Michael Hughes has several professional affiliations, including the Florida Association of Public Insurance Adjusters. He continues to participate in industry functions throughout the southeastern United States and is a highly respected veteran within his profession. John Michael Hughes has committed the last eighteen years pursuing a career that combines business, management and involving himself in the lives of people during their most critical times of need.

The need for seasoned claims adjusters has never been greater. The combination of record flooding in areas that traditionally have seen major damage and the increasing seismic activity throughout North America now requires that John Michael Hughes be more mobile. Natural disasters never isolate their occurrences and the demand for claims evaluations can pull many resources together within a very short period of time.

John Michael Hughes also continues his passion for the oceans. From 1989 until 1992 John Michael Hughes was a PADI open water SCUBA instructor. At that time, he organized, taught and led groups on diving excursions and vacations. He continues to have a passion for scuba diving as well as enjoying golf, fishing, kayaking, water-skiing, snow skiing, racquetball, photography, reading and hanging out with his son.

John Michael Hughes currently resides in Florida and can be reached at johnmichaelhughes.com.