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What’s new in restoration and adjuster national licensing?

April 4, 2024 by Jason Contant

The trend of insurers owning restoration firms and third-party vendors may not continue, particularly since controlling costs remains a priority for carriers, sources tell Canadian Underwriter.  It also looks like a national adjusting licensing standard or cross-provincial licensing will not

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How reconstruction companies are improving repair timelines

January 22, 2024 Alyssa Di Sabatino

A shortage of tradespeople isn’t making it easy for the restoration industry to recover from extended repair cycle times during the pandemic. While cycle times are starting to improve, frequent NatCats and a lack of qualified talent are stretching capacity

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Can higher lodging costs cut restoration losses?

January 12, 2024 Philip Porado

Insurers looking to reduce home restoration claims costs should find ways to avoid tearing out walls, flooring, rugs, trim and other major construction components. One insurer’s launched a program to do just that. The approach will lead to a “1%

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Should insurers help customers build back better…or not at all?

January 4, 2024 Philip Porado

Increased severity and frequency of NatCats has Canada’s P&C insurance ecosystem seeking ways to add resilience to the claims process. This includes build back better initiatives to encourage adding things like hurricane straps or hail-resistant shingling to roof rebuilds to

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High building materials and labour costs still slowing home repairs

July 12, 2023 Philip Porado

While inflation’s pace has eased in Canada, it’s still expensive to put homeowners back into their properties after a fire, flood, wind or other event. That’s because lingering supply chain and labour-shortage issues are extending restoration timelines. And that’s increasing

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How this tech is speeding up the property restoration claims process

March 2, 2023 by Alyssa DiSabatino

One B.C-based startup is mobilizing the often tedious property restoration management process for adjusters and contractors through a smartphone app. RocketPlan founder and CEO Joe Tolzmann experienced the inefficiency of the restoration claims process first-hand during his time in the

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What makes the current claims environment so challenging?

December 2, 2022 Philip Porado

A convergence of global factors will cause above-average levels of claims inflation for the foreseeable future. Claims professionals who spoke with Canadian Underwriter said multiple market-dependent factors – including prolonged COVID-19 lockdowns in China, political instability, labour and materials shortages,

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Client dogged by $1,277 uninsured water damage remediation bill

April 14, 2021 by Greg Meckbach

A British Columbia client who runs a dog kennel business out of her home is liable for some water damage remediation costs that her insurer did not cover because they relate to business and not personal use of the property.

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By how much productivity for restoration firms dropped in the pandemic

March 6, 2021 by Adam Malik

The head of a claims restoration company says it’s reasonable to believe that productivity in his company and the industry as a whole has dropped by nearly 20% due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. That would be on par with

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Property restoration space has ‘big capacity’ issue: Brindamour

February 19, 2021 by Greg Meckbach

Intact Financial Corp. is aiming to build capacity in what CEO Charles Brindamour calls the “super-fragmented” restoration contractor industry. “Our thought process with On Side [Restoration] is very much consistent with what we tried to do with BrokerLink a decade

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October 7, 2019 Kris Rzesnoski, Vice President, Business Development, Encircle

Looking to work with impartial contractors? Why insurers are  increasingly turning to Registered Third Party Evaluators

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How this property restoration firm got in and out of trouble

May 17, 2019 by Greg Meckbach

A restoration contractor whose employee drove a company vehicle with a suspended licence is getting its truck back from police impoundment. A man identified as “C.S.” was pulled over in Barrie late Friday evening March 15 while driving a  2017