Home insurance companies have their own ways to estimate the damage, this article will describe how they do it.
A Philadelphia town house was damaged by an explosion in the gas line of the house next door, including damage to the wall shared by the two homes. The insurance adjuster properly recognized the limits of his expertise and brought in an engineer to assess the damage to the wall. The engineer concluded that the top foot and a half of the wall needed to be replaced, but it was otherwise structurally sound.
Public Insurance Adjuster
The homeowner’s public adjuster brought in a better qualified engineer who found that the entire wall had to be replaced and, after a four-hour meeting at the site, persuaded the insurance company’s engineer that that was the correct position. Tha Read more…