You Start Work Before Anyone Has Agreed to Pay You

Your drying equipment is running days before anybody has agreed what the insurer will pay. That is the reverse of every other claim your customer has ever made, and unless you explain it on your own site, nobody will. Written down plainly, it becomes a page that gets you found by the homeowner who searches for how a claim like this works.

Why the order is inverted

A damaged roof can wait for an adjuster. Standing water cannot, because every hour multiplies the loss, and an insurer will decline to pay for damage that could have been prevented by acting sooner.

So you start on the strength of an expectation rather than an agreement, and your customer is committed to a cost nobody has yet approved. That is the structural fact this page exists to help you explain, and it is genuinely unusual.

Who is negotiating, and with whom

You settle the scope with the adjuster, in a language of line items and standardised pricing that the homeowner does not speak. The person who owns the house is a bystander to a negotiation about their own house, and most of them do not realise a negotiation is happening at all.

Set out the roles on your site, yours, the adjuster’s, sometimes an independent one’s, and where the homeowner’s own decisions actually sit. You have given them back a position in their own claim, and that is a reason to call you rather than the firm that left them guessing.

Where your accurate claim misleads

We work with all insurance companies is true and describes a willingness rather than an outcome. It leaves a homeowner believing the insurer will pay, when what it means is that you will bill the insurer and they carry whatever is declined.

The gap between the invoice and the settlement is theirs, and it is the single most common reason one of your jobs ends in a dispute. Saying so in advance loses you nothing you were going to keep.

What to publish

The sequence, in order, with who does what at each step. The deductible, and that it is payable by the homeowner regardless. What happens when the insurer approves less than the work cost, including whether you will negotiate further and whether you invoice the difference. Whether depreciation is withheld and recovered later, which surprises almost everybody. Whether you bill the insurer directly or the homeowner pays and claims. An assistant asked who pays when the insurer approves less can only repeat a page that answers it in those words.

The offer that should not be made

Waiving or absorbing a deductible describes who pays accurately and is unlawful in a number of states, and it is a familiar offer in this trade. Publish a plain statement that you do not do it, and in one line you have separated yourself from the operators your customer has been warned about.

The boundary of what we do here

Claims are somebody else’s work entirely. We do not run them, we do not sit opposite an adjuster, we give no view on what a policy covers, and we cannot say what any carrier will settle. We sell none of it, and nothing on this page is insurance, legal or financial advice. Claims handling is a matter for the homeowner, the carrier and the business’s own advisers, and what may lawfully be offered varies by state. What we act on is whether the sequence is explained before a homeowner is standing in it.

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Starting work before anyone has agreed what will be paid is the opposite of every other claim your customer has made, and explaining it is worth more than buying restoration jobs against earning them. It is settled from the record the settlement is calculated from, it sits beside the crew’s own cover inside a damaged house, and it produces complaints that belong to the insurer.

Frequently asked questions

Why should I explain that my work starts before the claim is settled?

Because your customer has never met a claim that runs this way. Standing water cannot wait for an adjuster, so you begin on an expectation rather than an agreement, and the person who did not know that is the person who disputes the invoice.

Who am I really negotiating the scope with?

The adjuster, in a language of line items and standardised pricing the homeowner does not speak. Say so plainly, because the person who owns the house is otherwise a bystander to a negotiation about their own house.

Can I say I work with all insurance companies?

You can, but it describes a willingness rather than an outcome. It leaves a homeowner believing the insurer will pay, when it means you bill the insurer and they carry whatever is declined, which is the most common reason a job ends in a dispute.

What belongs on my claims page?

The sequence with who does what at each step, that the deductible is payable regardless, what happens when the insurer approves less than the work cost, whether depreciation is withheld and recovered later, and who bills whom.

Which offer should I never make?

Waiving or absorbing a deductible. It is unlawful in a number of states, and a plain statement that you do not do it separates you from the operators homeowners are warned about.

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