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An insurance adjustor’s take on closing the gap between restoration contractors and insurers ace it, restoration professionals, the insurance industry considers you neither friend nor ally. The motivation behind the concepts of unit cost estimating, 10 percent overhead, 10 percent profit and even estimating software was to reduce the cost of a claim and damper your profits. The reason they study remediation methodology is not to be more knowledgeable to extend better service. It’s to better identify differences in scoping and price and minimize what they perceive to be excessive or exaggerated costs. The

I’ve been an independent adjuster for more than 30 years. During that time, I’ve studied how contractors interact with insurance adjusters. In recent years, I’ve consulted or presented workshops for the restoration industry to help these professionals increase the market share of insurance claims work. You might say I’m a friend of the restoration industry, but I am still a practicing independent adjuster. Many contractors who do business or hope to do business with insurance adjusters have misconceptions about the insurance claims industry and this affects their efforts to penetrate this fruitful market. Whenever