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Publisher’s Note: According to C&R/KnowHow’s 2022 State of the Industry study, getting paid is a top pain point for a majority of restoration contractors. Costs, labor burden, and overall pricing methodology are part of that equation, along with working with adjusters, having mortgage carriers involved, and so on. In this 2-part series, Anthony Nelson pours his years of learning and knowledge gained as a restorer on customized price lists onto paper. This series is NOT on specific prices or costs; it is a textbook of sorts on equations to ethically and logically figure out

Liability claims for bodily injury and property damage arising from the inadvertent disturbance of asbestos is the #1 source of expensive claims on the Contractors Pollution Liability insurance policies sold to restoration firms. In contrast, professional asbestos abatement firms rarely get claims made against them for damages resulting from exposing people or property to asbestos. The key difference is the inadvertent disturbance of asbestos.  When an asbestos abatement firm gets to a job, they know there is asbestos to deal with and nothing bad happens. Usually when a fire and water restoration firm gets