Contractor refusing to file liability claim

[Cordell Pearce]

Hello all,

I've had a very very bad experience with my last contractor. He was unskilled, stole a huge amount of money from me, destroyed the house, walked off the job, wont' communicate, etc. He was hired for a complete renovation, which included taking out an original exterior load bearing brick wall (roughly 150 years old) He removed this 30+ft high wall from the bottom without supporting anything. As you may guess, a large portion of the wall fell in, taking some of the rest of the house with it. He did a very very poor repair on the wall, leaving cracks in several other areas going entirely through the brick, window sills are slanted, windows and doors won't shut. Now that he's walked off the job I'm attempting to file a liability claim with his insurance, but he's refusing to let the insurance company file it. Is there any recourse for this?

Thanks in advance!

-Cordell