When a crucial piece of pipe from a major water loss at an NFL player’s South Florida home mysteriously disappeared, Broward lawyers Michael B. Stevens and Mary Grecz were in a bind — suddenly unable to prove to an insurer how the damage actually happened.

The litigation that ensued demonstrated the value of documenting everything, as that unexpected development could have upended the whole case if it wasn’t for a sole surviving photo of the pipe taken the day of the incident.